Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's K-1 500 metres

These are the results of the women's K-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-1 event is raced by single-person canoe sprint kayaks.

Medalists Gold Silver Bronze

Heats The 23 competitors first raced in three heats. The top finisher in each heat moved directly to the final, and the next 6 finishers in each heat qualified for the two semifinal races. Therefore, only two kayakers were eliminated in the heats. The heats were raced on August 24. HeatPlaceAthlete CountryTimeNotes11 Nataša Janić 1:49.870 QF12 Katrin Wagner 1:53.234 QS13 Larissa Peisakhovitch 1:54.234 QS14 Li Ting 1:55.474 QS15 Nathalie Marie 1:57.342 QS16 Fernanda Lauro 1:59.474 QS17 Doan Thi Cach 2:06.126 QS1 Natalya Sergeyeva DSQ21 Caroline Brunet 1:50.366 QF22 Josefa Idem 1:50.466 QS23 Petra Santy 1:52.834 QS24 Lucy Hardy 1:54.518 QS25 Michaela Strnadova 1:55.806 QS26 Yulia Borzova 1:56.586 QS27 Amanda Rankin 1:56.678 QS28 Sarce Aronggear 2:03.790 31 Marcela Erbanova 1:53.508 QF32 Aneta Pastuszka 1:53.840 QS33 Athina-Theodora Alexopoulou 1:54.828 QS34 Jenni Honkanen 1:55.244 QS35 Carrie Johnson 1:57.708 QS36 Olga Kostenko 1:58.520 QS37 Miyuki Shirata 2:00.860 QS

Sergeyeva was disqualified for not keeping her boat in the automatic starting system, delaying the race start by five minutes. She was also disqualified for starting outside of the automatic starting system.

Semifinals The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the final. Fourth place and higher competitors were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 26. Semifinal 11. 1:52.630 QF2. 1:53.050 QF3. 1:53.598 QF4. 1:54.5345. 1:54.9506. 1:55.7667. 1:56.1548. 1:56.1989. 2:00.198Semifinal 21. 1:50.844 QF2. 1:55.096 QF3. 1:56.432 QF4. 1:56.7125. 1:57.9446. 1:59.5607. 2:03.0768. 2:06.6929. DSQ

Pastuszka was disqualified for competing in an underweight boat.

Final The final was raced on August 28. 1:47.741 1:49.729 1:50.6014. 1:52.5575. 1:52.6856. 1:53.0897. 1:53.7178. 1:53.9379. 1:54.473

Janics, who switched her nationality from Serbia and Montenegro to Hungary three months before the 2004 Games, jumped to an early lead and then held off a late challenge from defending Olympic champion Idem.

References 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results Sports-reference.com 2004 women's K-1 500 m results. Wallechinsky, David and Jamie Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Singles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 492. Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results