The men's K-1 500 metres competition at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań took place at Lake Malta.Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Bulletin 1
Schedule The schedule is as follows:Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Schedule Date Time Round Thursday 27 August 2026 Heats Saturday 29 August 2026 Semifinals Sunday 30 August 2026 Final B Final A
Record
The best performance previously in this discipline was:
World Best1:35.04 Szeged
Results
Heats The result of the round of six heats was as follows:Men's K-1 500 m - Heats - Results, from ICF.
Qualification rule: First four in each heat (SF) plus three best by time (qBT) to semi finals; remainder eliminated.
Heat 1 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 5 Josef Dostal 1:46.59 2 4 Uladzislau Kravets Neutral Athletes A 1:47.17 0.58 3 6 Oleh Kukharyk 1:47.36 0.77 4 3 Chenhao Li 1:52.11 5.52 5 7 Hugo Lagerstam 1:52.27 5.68 6 1 Sulaiman Ahmed Saeed Al-Samarraie 1:56.02 9.43 7 2 Ther Tristan Loo 1:57.79 11.20 8 8 Bu Tunur Saud 2:10.63 24.04
Heat 2 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 5 Thomas Green 1:47.66 2 4 Guillaume Keller 1:49.14 1.48 3 6 Eetu Kolehmainen 1:52.09 4.43 4 7 Mohamed Ismail 1:53.40 5.74 5 8 Lev Lunin 1:53.91 6.25 6 2 Slehddine Maknine 1:58.76 11.10 7 1 Mehdi Berkani 1:58.92 11.26 8 3 Fernandes Ngunza 2:10.24 22.58
Heat 3 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 4 Alex Borucki 1:45.99 2 5 Andrea Domenico Di Liberto 1:48.69 2.70 3 6 Viktor Gavrilenko Neutral Athletes B 1:49.59 3.60 4 7 Laurent Lavigne 1:50.12 4.13 5 1 Dmitriy Kholmogorov 1:51.93 5.94 6 3 Milan Dekker 1:56.16 10.17 7 8 Dairon Ardila 1:59.44 13.45 - 2 Subhi Subhi DNS
Heat 4 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 4 Timon Maurer 1:46.84 2 5 Alex Graneri 1:46.85 0.01 3 6 Luca Lauper 1:47.23 0.39 4 3 Sebastian Alveal 1:48.08 1.24 5 7 Danylo Michuda 1:48.19 1.35 6 2 Daniel Ledesma Alarcon 1:51.52 4.68 7 8 Kron Balidemaj 2:12.00 25.16 8 1 Petar Jocovic 2:25.07 38.23
Heat 5 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 5 Thorbjorn Rask 1:47.00 2 4 Branko Lagundzic 1:48.90 1.90 3 6 Shakhriyor Makhkamov 1:49.57 2.57 4 3 Martin Gorriti Monterroso 1:51.78 4.78 5 8 Agustin Sanchez 1:51.99 4.99 6 2 Cole Jones 1:52.22 5.22 7 7 Varinder Singh 2:00.18 13.18 8 1 Diogo Araujo 2:02.71 15.71
Heat 6 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 5 Adam Varga 1:45.33 2 4 Tom Liebscher-Lucz 1:47.11 1.78 3 6 Denis Mysak 1:47.96 2.63 4 7 Rahmi Kaan Karahan 1:48.76 3.43 5 3 Taishi Tanada 1:49.99 4.66 6 2 Preslav Simeonov 1:51.60 6.27 7 8 Daniel Sirotin 1:54.55 9.22 8 1 Fred Kahu 1:56.28 10.95
Semi finals The result of the semi finals were as follows:Men's K-1 500 m - Semi-finals - Results, from ICF.
Qualification rule: First three in each semifinal to A final; next three in each semifinal to B final; remainder to C final.
Semi final 1 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 5 Thomas Green 1:37.19 2 4 Thorbjorn Rask 1:37.66 0.47 3 7 Luca Lauper 1:38.31 1.12 4 3 Oleh Kukharyk 1:38.79 1.60 5 6 Andrea Domenico Di Liberto 1:39.31 2.12 6 2 Denis Mysak 1:39.99 2.80 7 1 Dmitriy Kholmogorov 1:42.06 4.87 8 9 Martin Gorriti Monterroso 1:42.45 5.26 9 8 Mohamad Ismail 1:45.73 8.54
Semi final 2 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 4 Timon Maurer 1:37.89 2 5 Josef Dostal 1:38.20 0.31 3 7 Tom Liebscher-Lucz 1:38.35 0.46 4 3 Branko Lagundzic 1:38.68 0.79 5 2 Viktor Gavrilenko Neutral Athletes A 1:38.89 1.00 6 6 Guillaume Keller 1:39.88 1.99 7 8 Chenhao Li 1:40.00 2.11 8 9 Sebastian Alveal 1:40.26 2.37 9 1 Danylo Michuda 1:42.47 4.58
Semi final 3 Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 6 Adam Varga 1:37.43 2 5 Alex Borucki 1:37.93 0.50 3 4 Uladzislau Kravets Neutral Athletes B 1:38.55 1.12 4 3 Alex Graneri 1:38.85 1.42 5 2 Shakhriyor Makhkamov 1:40.80 3.37 6 9 Rahmi Kaan Karahan 1:41.01 3.58 7 1 Taishi Tanada 1:42.25 4.82 8 8 Laurent Lavigne 1:42.25 4.82 9 7 Eetu Kolehmainen 1:47.45 10.02
Finals The result of the final races were follows:Men's K-1 500 m - Finals - Results, from ICF.
C Final Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 7 Sebastian Alveal 1:42.77 2 6 Taishi Tanada 1:42.99 0.22 3 4 Chenhao Li 1:43.11 0.34 4 2 Laurent Lavigne 1:43.71 0.94 5 1 Danylo Michuda 1:44.22 1.45 6 9 Eetu Kolehmainen 1:44.36 1.59 7 3 Martin Gorriti Monterroso 1:44.84 2.07 8 5 Dmitriy Kholmogorov 1:46.27 3.50 9 8 Mohamed Ismail 1:47.63 4.86
B Final Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 1 4 Alex Graneri 1:40.65 2 7 Andrea Domenico Di Liberto 1:41.08 0.43 3 6 Branko Lagundzic 1:41.39 0.74 4 3 Viktor Gavrilenko Neutral Athletes A 1:42.15 1.50 5 8 Shakhriyor Makhkamov 1:42.36 1.71 6 1 Guillaume Keller 1:42.38 1.73 7 9 Rahmi Kaan Karahan 1:42.57 1.92 8 2 Denis Mysak 1:43.78 3.13 9 5 Oleh Kukharyk 1:47.85 7.20
A Final Rank Lane Name(s) Time Gap Notes 5 Thomas Green 1:37.66 6 Adam Varga 1:38.07 0.41 2 Alex Borucki 1:38.95 1.29 4 7 Josef Dostal 1:39.41 1.75 5 9 Uladzislau Kravets Neutral Athletes B 1:40.01 2.35 6 3 Thorbjorn Rask 1:40.11 2.45 7 1 Tom Liebscher-Lucz 1:40.33 2.67 8 8 Luca Lauper 1:41.51 3.85 9 4 Timon Maurer 1:41.95 4.29
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