The men's canoe sprint K-4 1,000 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 7 and 9 August at Eton Dorney.
The Australian team comprising Tate Smith, Dave Smith, Murray Stewart and Jacob Clear won the gold medal. Hungary won the silver medal and the Czech Republic took bronze.
Competition format
The competition comprised heats, a semi-final, and a final. Heat winners advanced to the final, with all other boats getting a second chance in the semi-final. The top six from the semi-final also advanced to the final.
Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) Date Time RoundTuesday 7 August 2012 09:3011:01 HeatsSemi-finalsThursday 9 August 2012 09:48Final
Results
Heats The fastest boat qualified for the final, remainder to a semi-final.
Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Peter GelleMartin JankovecErik VlčekJuraj Tarr 2:55.173Q2 Marcus GroßNorman BröcklTim WieskötterMax Hoff 2:56.9873 Kim Wraae KnudsenRené Holten PoulsenEmil StærKasper Bleibach 3:05.1344 Traian NeaguToni IoneticuȘtefan VasileIonel Gavrilă 3:12.3715 Milenko ZorićErvin HolpertAleksandar AleksićDejan Terzić 3:21.437
Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Zoltán KammererDávid TóthTamás KulifaiDániel Pauman 2:54.153Q2 Daniel HavelLukáš TrefilJosef DostálJan Štěrba 2:54.2673 Tate SmithDave SmithMurray StewartJacob Clear 2:59.7894 Ilya MedvedevAnton VasilevAnton RyakhovOleg Zhestkov 3:04.7815 Zhang HongpengZhou PengShen JieHuang Zhipeng 3:14.234
Semifinal The fastest six boats qualified for the final.
RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Tate SmithDave SmithMurray StewartJacob Clear 2:52.505Q2 Marcus GroßNorman BröcklTim WieskötterMax Hoff 2:53.575Q3 Daniel HavelLukáš TrefilJosef DostálJan Štěrba 2:53.984Q4 Ilya MedvedevAnton VasilevAnton RyakhovOleg Zhestkov 2:54.303Q5 Traian NeaguToni IoneticuȘtefan VasileIonel Gavrilă 2:55.027Q6 Kim Wraae KnudsenRené Holten PoulsenEmil StærKasper Bleibach 2:56.003Q7 Milenko ZorićErvin HolpertAleksandar AleksićDejan Terzić 2:56.3468 Zhang HongpengZhou PengShen JieHuang Zhipeng 3:00.315
Final RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes Tate SmithDave SmithMurray StewartJacob Clear 2:55.085 Zoltán KammererDávid TóthTamás KulifaiDániel Pauman 2:55.699 Daniel HavelLukáš TrefilJosef DostálJan Štěrba 2:55.8504 Marcus GroßNorman BröcklTim WieskötterMax Hoff 2:56.1725 Kim Wraae KnudsenRené Holten PoulsenEmil StærKasper Bleibach 2:56.5426 Peter GelleMartin JankovecErik VlčekJuraj Tarr 2:56.7717 Ilya MedvedevAnton VasilevAnton RyakhovOleg Zhestkov 2:57.3758 Traian NeaguToni IoneticuȘtefan VasileIonel Gavrilă 2:58.223
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