Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres
Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics | ||
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Sprint | ||
C-1 1000 m | men | |
C-2 1000 m | men | |
K-1 500 m | women | |
K-1 1000 m | men | |
K-2 500 m | women | |
K-2 1000 m | men | |
K-4 1000 m | men | |
The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics program. Heat times were given in tenths of a second (0.1) while the semifinal and final events were given in hundredths of a second (0.01) in the official report.
Medallists[edit]
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Tibor Tatai (HUN) | Detlef Lewe (FRG) | Vitaly Galkov (URS) |
Results[edit]
Heats[edit]
Twelve competitors were entered, but eleven took part. Held on October 22, the top three in each heat move on to final with the others relegated to the semifinal.
Heat 1 | |||
1. | Ivan Patzaichin (ROU) | 4:28.3 | QF |
2. | Ove Emanuelsson (SWE) | 4:32.4 | QF |
3. | Christopher Hook (CAN) | 4:34.9 | QF |
4. | Vitaly Galkov (URS) | 4:35.4 | QS |
5. | Boris Lyubenov (BUL) | 4:36.2 | QS |
6. | Félipe Ojeda (MEX) | 4:47.3 | QS |
Heat 2 | |||
1. | Detlef Lewe (FRG) | 4:24.5 | QF |
2. | Tibor Tatai (HUN) | 4:25.5 | QF |
3. | Jiří Čtvrtečka (TCH) | 4:28.3 | QF |
4. | Andreas Weigand (USA) | 4:30.0 | QS |
5. | Tetsumasa Yamaguchi (JPN) | 4:33.3 | QS |
- | Jürgen Harpke (GDR) | Did not start |
In the official report, Emanuelsson's first name is listed as Sten.
Semifinal[edit]
Only the five canoeists who did not advance from the first round competed in the semifinal. Taking place on October 24, the top three finishers advanced to the final.
1. | Vitaly Galkov (URS) | 4:34.17 | QF |
2. | Boris Lyubenov (BUL) | 4:35.82 | QF |
3. | Andreas Weigand (USA) | 4:37.11 | QF |
4. | Félipe Ojeda (MEX) | 4:43.20 | |
5. | Tetsumasa Yamaguchi (JPN) | 4:54.61 |
Final[edit]
The final took place on October 25.
Tibor Tatai (HUN) | 4:36.14 | |
Detlef Lewe (FRG) | 4:38.31 | |
Vitaly Galkov (URS) | 4:40.42 | |
4. | Jiří Čtvrtečka (TCH) | 4:40.74 |
5. | Boris Lyubenov (BUL) | 4:43.43 |
6. | Ove Emanuelsson (SWE) | 4:45.80 |
7. | Ivan Patzaichin (ROU) | 4:49.32 |
8. | Andreas Weigand (USA) | 4:50.42 |
9. | Christopher Hook (CAN) | 4:55.88 |
Tatai qualified as a reserve for the Hungarian team, but won decisively after driving the other finalists to exhaustion.
References[edit]
- 1968 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3, Part 2. p. 616. (in English and French)
- Sports-reference.com 1968 C-1 1000 m results.
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 480.