2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-1 500 metres

Men's K-1 500 metres at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Olympic Centre of Szeged
Location	Szeged, Hungary
Dates	21–23 August
Competitors	45 from 45 nations
Winning time	1:35.04 WB
Medalists
Tom Liebscher    Germany   Mikita Borykau    Belarus   Maxim Spesivtsev    Russia
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The men's K-1 500 metres competition at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged took place at the Olympic Centre of Szeged. ^[1]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows: ^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday 21 August 2019	10:43	Heats
Thursday 22 August 2019	15:24	Semifinals
Friday 23 August 2019	14:41	Final C
	14:47	Final B
	15:31	Final A

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results

Heats

The four fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest fifth-place boats advanced to the semifinals. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Heat 1

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tom Liebscher	Germany	1:38.51	QS
2	Pelayo Roza	Spain	1:40.11	QS
3	Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:41.21	QS
4	Ivan Lukyanov	Kazakhstan	1:44.18	QS
5	Kristaps Laube	Latvia	1:45.52	qS
6	Atul Kumar	India	1:51.30
7	Abdelmajid Jabbour	Morocco	1:56.02
–	Sulaiman A. S. Al-Sammarraie	Iraq	DNS
–	Amado Cruz	Belize	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Maxim Spesivtsev	Russia	1:40.71	QS
2	Daniel Johnson	Great Britain	1:42.09	QS
3	Antun Novaković	Croatia	1:42.61	QS
4	Franck Le Moël	France	1:44.49	QS
5	Abdusattor Gafurov	Tajikistan	1:51.57
6	Fernando Pimenta	Portugal	2:05.53
–	Saphan Swaleh	Pakistan	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:42.86	QS
2	Bram Brandjes	Netherlands	1:43.91	QS
3	Omar de Andrés	Argentina	1:45.49	QS
4	Jesse Lishchuk	United States	1:50.49	QS
5	Joaquim Manhique	Mozambique	2:00.28
6	Jimmy Jonas	Palau	2:30.67
–	Nikola Maleski	North Macedonia	DSQ
–	Cristian Canache	Venezuela	DNS

Heat 4

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bence Dombvári	Hungary	1:39.48	QS
2	Ervin Holpert	Serbia	1:40.83	QS
3	Mikita Borykau	Belarus	1:41.90	QS
4	Matteo Torneo	Italy	1:42.18	QS
5	Lin Yung-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:44.26	qS
6	Ahmed Elbedwihy	Egypt	1:52.77
7	Bram Sanderson	Dominica	2:48.85

Heat 5

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Chi	China	1:41.79	QS
2	Barry Watkins	Ireland	1:41.85	QS
3	Ilya Podpolnyy	Israel	1:43.50	QS
4	Brandon Wei Cheng Ooi	Singapore	1:44.27	QS
5	Amin Boudaghi	Iran	1:47.47	qS
6	Serghei Vihrov	Moldova	1:51.91
7	Kwok Ka-wai	Hong Kong	1:56.37

Heat 6

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thomas Green	Australia	1:39.64	QS
2	Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:40.20	QS
3	David Johansson	Sweden	1:44.85	QS
4	Ioannis Odysseos	Cyprus	1:46.73	QS
5	Rodion Tuigunov	Kyrgyzstan	1:50.19
6	Khairul Naim Zainal	Malaysia	1:56.97
7	Nicholas Robinson	Trinidad and Tobago	2:01.38

Semifinals

Qualification in each semi was as follows:

The fastest three boats advanced to the A final.
The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.
The seventh, eighth and ninth-place boats advanced to the C final. ^{[9] [10] [11]}

Semifinal 1

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bence Dombvári	Hungary	1:36.41	QA
2	Tom Liebscher	Germany	1:36.65	QA
3	Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:36.86	QA
4	Antun Novaković	Croatia	1:39.47	QB
5	Lin Yung-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:40.17	QB
6	Ilya Podpolnyy	Israel	1:40.46	QB
7	Ivan Lukyanov	Kazakhstan	1:40.63	QC
8	Matteo Torneo	Italy	1:40.94	QC
9	Bram Brandjes	Netherlands	1:41.41	QC

Semifinal 2

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Pelayo Roza	Spain	1:37.87	QA
2	Maxim Spesivtsev	Russia	1:37.87	QA
3	Ervin Holpert	Serbia	1:38.29	QA
4	Franck Le Moël	France	1:39.83	QB
5	Wang Chi	China	1:40.10	QB
6	Kristaps Laube	Latvia	1:42.19	QB
7	Brandon Wei Cheng Ooi	Singapore	1:42.40	QC
8	Omar de Andrés	Argentina	1:44.33	QC
9	David Johansson	Sweden	1:57.68	QC

Semifinal 3

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thomas Green	Australia	1:35.86	QA
2	Mikita Borykau	Belarus	1:36.04	QA
3	Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:37.83	QA
4	Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:39.02	QB
5	Daniel Johnson	Great Britain	1:39.08	QB
6	Barry Watkins	Ireland	1:40.38	QB
7	Amin Boudaghi	Iran	1:43.94	QC
8	Jesse Lishchuk	United States	1:43.98	QC
9	Ioannis Odysseos	Cyprus	1:45.02	QC

Finals

Final C

Competitors in this final raced for positions 19 to 27. ^[12]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time
1	Ivan Lukyanov	Kazakhstan	1:38.99
2	David Johansson	Sweden	1:39.54
3	Matteo Torneo	Italy	1:39.97
4	Bram Brandjes	Netherlands	1:40.24
5	Brandon Wei Cheng Ooi	Singapore	1:41.45
6	Omar de Andrés	Argentina	1:41.88
7	Jesse Lishchuk	United States	1:42.86
8	Amin Boudaghi	Iran	1:44.25
9	Ioannis Odysseos	Cyprus	1:50.23

Final B

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18. ^[13]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time
1	Ilya Podpolnyy	Israel	1:38.88
2	Antun Novaković	Croatia	1:39.20
3	Wang Chi	China	1:39.43
4	Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:39.51
5	Daniel Johnson	Great Britain	1:39.77
6	Barry Watkins	Ireland	1:40.25
7	Franck Le Moël	France	1:40.88
8	Lin Yung-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:41.61
9	Kristaps Laube	Latvia	1:41.98

Final A

Competitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three. ^[14]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
	Tom Liebscher	Germany	1:35.04	WB
	Mikita Borykau	Belarus	1:35.19
	Maxim Spesivtsev	Russia	1:35.49
4	Thomas Green	Australia	1:35.85
5	Bence Dombvári	Hungary	1:36.41
6	Ervin Holpert	Serbia	1:37.00
7	Pelayo Roza	Spain	1:37.01
8	Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:37.62
9	Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:38.00

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