The men's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 11 and 12 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (single kayak) event was raced by one-man kayaks through a whitewater course.
There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 15 boats advanced to the semifinals.
The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 10 scores from that run; those 10 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total.
Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundMonday, August 11, 2008 15:50-16:50 Heats 1st RunMonday, August 11, 2008 17:42-18:40 Heats 2nd RunTuesday, August 12, 2008 15:40-16:40 SemifinalTuesday, August 12, 2008 17:17-18:00 Final
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Results
Heats Rank Name Country Preliminary runsRun 1Run 2Total 1 Peter Kauzer 81.7984.70 166.49 2 Fabien Lefèvre 85.6682.40 168.06 3 Daniele Molmenti 85.13 83.46 168.59 4 Alexander Grimm 84.90 84.36 169.26 5 Dariusz Popiela 85.5185.51 171.02 6 Helmut Oblinger 86.21 85.54 171.75 7 Vavřinec Hradilek 85.6186.41 172.02 8 Benjamin Boukpeti 90.17 82.09 172.26 9 Campbell Walsh 86.72 85.72 172.44 10 Warwick Draper 86.28 86.30 172.58 11 Peter Cibák 86.26 86.69172.95 12 Guillermo Díez-Canedo 84.95 88.07 173.02 13 David Ford 85.35 89.49 174.84 14 Robert Bouten 86.26 88.90 175.16 15 Eoin Rheinisch 88.52 87.81 176.33 16 Pablo McCandless 88.2488.40 176.64 17 Michael Kurt 87.58 91.08 178.66 18 Kazuki Yazawa 89.82 90.05 179.87 19 Atanas Nikolovski 92.63 88.56 181.19 20 Scott Parsons 84.91 135.63 220.54 21 Ding Fuxue 87.47 140.92 228.39 Qualified for semifinals
Semifinal Rank Name Country Semifinal runPenalty secondsTime 1 Benjamin Boukpeti 0 86.08 2 Warwick Draper 0 86.09 3 Fabien Lefèvre 0 87.21 4 Alexander Grimm 0 87.31 5 Robert Bouten 0 88.40 6 David Ford 0 88.46 7 Dariusz Popiela 0 88.49 8 Daniele Molmenti 2 88.56 9 Helmut Oblinger 0 88.69 10 Eoin Rheinisch 0 88.85 11 Vavřinec Hradilek 0 88.97 12 Peter Cibák 2 89.41 13 Peter Kauzer 4 89.42 14 Guillermo Díez-Canedo 2 90.06 15 Campbell Walsh 2 95.74 Qualified for final
Final Rank Name Country Semifinal run Final runTotalPenalty secondsTimePenalty secondsTime Alexander Grimm 0 87.31 0 84.39 171.70 Fabien Lefèvre 0 87.21 0 86.09 173.30 Benjamin Boukpeti 0 86.08 0 87.37 173.45 4 Eoin Rheinisch 0 88.85 0 88.06 176.91 5 Warwick Draper 0 86.09 0 91,76 177,85 6 David Ford 0 88.46 2 87,89 178,35 7 Helmut Oblinger 0 88.69 2 88,14 178,83 8 Dariusz Popiela 0 88.49 0 91,19 179,68 9 Robert Bouten 0 88.40 50 89,59 227,99 10 Daniele Molmenti 2 88.56 52 90,37 230,93
References
ICF slalom canoeing schedule for the 2008 Summer Olympics. - accessed July 30, 2008. Sports-reference.com 2008 men's K-1 slalom results.