Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics program.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Matija Ljubek (YUG)	Vasyl Yurchenko (URS)	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)

Results

Heats

Fifteen competitors were entered. Held on July 29, the top three finishers in each heat moved on to the semifinals with the others relegated to the repechages.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Ivan Patzaichin	Romania	4:13.09	QS
2.	Tamás Wichmann	Hungary	4:14.87	QS
3.	Matija Ljubek	Yugoslavia	4:15.14	QS
4.	Roland Iche	France	4:20.13	QR
5.	Ulrich Eicke	West Germany	4:28.66	QR
6.	Pietro Bruschi	Italy	4:33.38	QR
7.	William Reichenstein	Great Britain	4:49.20	QR
8.	Mitsuo Nakanishi	Japan	4:52.59	QR

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Vasyl Yurchenko	Soviet Union	4:20.44	QS
2.	Wilfried Stephan	East Germany	4:25.23	QS
3.	Borislav Ananiev	Bulgaria	4:28.18	QS
4.	Göran Backlund	Sweden	4:29.36	QR
5.	Timo Grönlund	Finland	4:30.93	QR
6.	John Edwards	Canada	4:32.67	QR
7.	Angus Morrison	United States	4:35.77	QR

Repechages

Held on July 29, the top three finisher in each repechage advanced to the semifinals.

Repechage 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Roland Iche	France	4:15.51	QS
2.	Angus Morrison	United States	4:18.11	QS
3.	Pietro Bruschi	Italy	4:19.11	QS
4.	Timo Grönlund	Finland	4:19.71
5.	Mitsuo Nakanishi	Japan	4:40.96

Repechage2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Ulrich Eicke	West Germany	4:12.00	QS
2.	John Edwards	Canada	4:14.47	QS
3.	Göran Backlund	Sweden	4:28.18	QS
4.	William Reichenstein	Great Britain	4:37.47

Semifinals

Taking place on July 31, the top three finishers in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Borislav Ananiev	Bulgaria	4:13.39	QF
2.	Ivan Patzaichin	Romania	4:15.21	QF
3.	Ulrich Eicke	West Germany	4:16.69	QF
4.	Pietro Bruschi	Italy	4:21.88

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Vasyl Yurchenko	Soviet Union	4:12.00	QF
2.	Matija Ljubek	Yugoslavia	4:19.99	QF
3.	John Edwards	Canada	4:21.89	QF
4.	Angus Morrison	United States	4:25.83

Semifinal 3

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Tamás Wichmann	Hungary	4:17.32	QF
2.	Roland Iche	France	4:18.30	QF
3.	Wilfried Stephan	East Germany	4:18.99	QF
4.	Göran Backlund	Sweden	4:20.93

Final

The final took place on July 31.

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time
	Matija Ljubek	Yugoslavia	4:09.51
	Vasyl Yurchenko	Soviet Union	4:12.57
	Tamás Wichmann	Hungary	4:14.11
4.	Borislav Ananiev	Bulgaria	4:14.41
5.	Ivan Patzaichin	Romania	4:15.08
6.	Roland Iche	France	4:18.23
7.	Wilfried Stephan	East Germany	4:22.43
8.	Ulrich Eicke	West Germany	4:22.77
9.	John Edwards	Canada	4:30.55

Ljubek, fourth at the halfway mark, was the only finalist to paddle the second half of the race faster than the first.

References

1976 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. p. 184. (in English and French)
Sports-reference.com 1976 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.