Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's K-1 500 metres

Women's canoe sprint K-1 500 metres at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	7 to 9 August
Competitors	25 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:51.456
Medalists
Danuta Kozák   Hungary   Inna Osypenko   Ukraine   Bridgette Hartley   South Africa

Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 200 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 200 m		men		women
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 200 m		men
K-2 500 m				women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

The women's canoe sprint K-1 500 metres at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 7 and 9 August at Eton Dorney.^[1]

Danuta Kozák from Hungary won the gold medal. Inna Osypenko from Ukraine won silver and South Africa's Bridgette Hartley took bronze.

Competition format

The competition comprised heats, semi-finals and a final round.^[2]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday 7 August 2012	10:07 11:16	Heats Semi-finals
Thursday 9 August 2012	10:08	Finals

Results

Heats

The fastest six boats in each heat qualified for the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Anne Rikala	Finland	1:52.641	Q
2	Henriette Hansen	Denmark	1:52.650	Q
3	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	Germany	1:53.438	Q
4	Carrie Johnson	United States	1:53.983	Q
5	Darisleydis Amador	Cuba	1:56.038	Q
6	Teneale Hatton	New Zealand	1:56.741	Q
7	Arezoo Hakimi	Iran	1:58.598

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Danuta Kozák	Hungary	1:52.828	Q
2	Bridgette Hartley	South Africa	1:53.051	Q
3	Josefa Idem	Italy	1:55.619	Q
4	Yuliana Salakhova	Russia	1:56.621	Q
5	Émilie Fournel	Canada	1:58.740	Q
6	Marharyta Tsishkevich	Belarus	2:01.216	Q

Heat 3

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sofia Paldanius	Sweden	1:51.212	Q
2	Teresa Portela	Portugal	1:51.887	Q
3	Aneta Konieczna	Poland	1:52.069	Q
4	Inna Osypenko	Ukraine	1:52.268	Q
5	Mira Verås Larsen	Norway	1:55.923	Q
6	Yulia Borzova	Uzbekistan	2:03.893	Q

Heat 4

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rachel Cawthorn	Great Britain	1:53.491	Q
2	Alana Nicholls	Australia	1:53.823	Q
3	Natalya Sergeyeva	Kazakhstan	1:54.445	Q
4	Geraldine Lee Wei Ling	Singapore	2:01.037	Q
5	Špela Ponomarenko Janić	Slovenia	2:01.520	Q
6	Afef Ben Ismail	Tunisia	2:07.705	Q

Semifinals

The first two canoeists in each semi-final and the two fastest third plcaed boats qualified for the 'A' final. The fourth and fifth ranked canoeists in each semi-final and the two fastest sixth placed boats qualified for the 'B' final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bridgette Hartley	South Africa	1:51.286	Q
2	Inna Osypenko	Ukraine	1:51.515	Q
3	Anne Rikala	Finland	1:51.852	q
4	Aneta Konieczna	Poland	1:52.193
5	Alana Nicholls	Australia	1:52.224
6	Émilie Fournel	Canada	1:54.120
7	Darisleydis Amador	Cuba	1:58.762
8	Afef Ben Ismail	Tunisia	2:15.362

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Danuta Kozák	Hungary	1:50.469	Q
2	Henriette Hansen	Denmark	1:51.929	Q
3	Sofia Paldanius	Sweden	1:51.945	q
4	Natalya Sergeyeva	Kazakhstan	1:53.888
5	Teneale Hatton	New Zealand	1:54.504
6	Mira Verås Larsen	Norway	1:57.354
7	Geraldine Lee Wei Ling	Singapore	2:01.516
–	Marharyta Tsishkevich	Belarus		DSQ

Semifinal 3

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Josefa Idem	Italy	1:52.232	Q
2	Rachel Cawthorn	Great Britain	1:52.542	Q
3	Teresa Portela	Portugal	1:53.064
4	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	Germany	1:53.241
5	Špela Ponomarenko Janić	Slovenia	1:53.341
6	Carrie Johnson	United States	1:54.628
7	Yuliana Salakhova	Russia	1:57.761
8	Yulia Borzova	Uzbekistan	2:00.584

Finals

Final B

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	Germany	1:52.402
2	Aneta Konieczna	Poland	1:53.356
3	Teresa Portela	Portugal	1:53.597
4	Špela Ponomarenko	Slovenia	1:53.718
5	Natalya Sergeyeva	Kazakhstan	1:54.707
6	Émilie Fournel	Canada	1:56.058
7	Teneale Hatton	New Zealand	1:56.103
8	Alana Nicholls	Australia	1:59.033

Final A

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
	Danuta Kozák	Hungary	1:51.456
	Inna Osypenko	Ukraine	1:52.685
	Bridgette Hartley	South Africa	1:52.923
4	Sofia Paldanius	Sweden	1:53.197
5	Josefa Idem	Italy	1:53.223
6	Rachel Cawthorn	Great Britain	1:53.345
7	Henriette Hansen	Denmark	1:54.110
8	Anne Rikala	Finland	1:54.333

References

1. Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2. Format Competition – Sprint