The women's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 13 and August 15, 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (kayak single) event is raced by one-person kayaks through a whitewater course. The final was rescheduled to the 15th due to persistent lightning at the Park.
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 RoundWednesday, August 13, 2008 15:40-16:40 Heats 1st RunWednesday, August 13, 2008 17:22-18:20 Heats 2nd RunThursday, August 14, 2008 15:35-16:45 SemifinalThursday, August 14, 2008 17:12-18:00 Final
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Results
Heats Rank Name Country Preliminary runsRun 1Run 2Total 1 Elena Kaliská 94.34 91.85 186.19 2 Li Jingjing 94.30 93.26 187.56 3 Štěpánka Hilgertová 97.14 91.99 189.13 4 Jennifer Bongardt 92.79 94.58 189.37 5 Émilie Fer 96.90 92.78 189.68 6 Violetta Oblinger-Peters 97.27 99.44 196.71 7 Jacqueline Lawrence 103.18 96.95 200.13 8 Agnieszka Stanuch 101.16 101.76 202.92 9 Cristina Giai Pron 102.75 100.95 203.70 10 Heather Corrie 105.78 105.53 211.31 11 Yekaterina Lukicheva 113.26 108.03 221.29 12 Maria Ferekidi 108.37 113.60 221.97 13 Ariane Herde 104.30 117.98 222.28 14 Poliana de Paula 113.47 110.72 224.19 15 Yuriko Takeshita 111.63 113.08 224.71 16 Maialen Chourraut 147.95 105.44 253.39 17 Fiona Pennie 160.06 99.00 259.06 18 Aleksandra Perova 93.41 166.04 259.45 19 Sarah Boudens 158.99 109.68 268.67 20 Montserrat García Riberaygua 166.67 102.26 268.93 21 Luuka Jones 162.35 110.01 272.36 Qualified for semifinal
Semifinal Rank Name Country Semifinal runPenalty secondsTime 1 Elena Kaliská 0 97.13 2 Émilie Fer 2 98.50 3 Štěpánka Hilgertová 4 101.78 4 Jacqueline Lawrence 4 103.40 5 Cristina Giai Pron 2 104.52 6 Yuriko Takeshita 0 107.86 7 Violetta Oblinger-Peters 2 110.65 8 Heather Corrie 2 114.51 9 Agnieszka Stanuch 2 116.46 10 Ariane Herde 4 117.60 11 Maria Ferekidi 2 118.99 12 Yekaterina Lukicheva 2 128.08 13 Li Jingjing 54 161.79 14 Poliana de Paula 52 168.29 15 Jennifer Bongardt 102 203.29 Qualified for final
Final Rank Name Country Semifinal run Final runTotalPenalty secondsTimePenalty secondsTime Elena Kaliská 0 97.13 0 95.51 192.64 Jacqueline Lawrence 4 103.40 0 103.54 206.94 Violetta Oblinger-Peters 2 110.65 4 104.12 214.77 4 Yuriko Takeshita 0 107.86 4 111.44 219.30 5 Agnieszka Stanuch 2 116.46 2 104.62 221.08 6 Ariane Herde 4 117.60 6 114.39 231.99 7 Émilie Fer 2 98.50 54 153.46 251.96 8 Heather Corrie 2 114.51 52 156.37 270.88 9 Štěpánka Hilgertová 4 101.78 150 242.63 344.41 10 Cristina Giai Pron 2 104.52 154 251.26 355.78
References
ICF slalom canoeing schedule for the 2008 Summer Olympics. - accessed July 30, 2008. Sports-reference.com 2008 women's slalom K-1 results