Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's K-1 500 metres explained

Event:	Women's canoe sprint K-1 500 metres
Games:	2016 Summer
Venue:	Lagoa Stadium
Date:	17–18 August
Competitors:	27
Nations:	27
Win Value:	1:52.494
Gold:	Danuta Kozák
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Emma Jørgensen
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronze:	Lisa Carrington
Bronzenoc:	NZL
Prev:	2012
Next:	2020

The women's canoe sprint K-1 500 metres competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place between 17 and 18 August at Lagoa Stadium.

Format

The competition comprised heats, semifinals, and a final round. The leading five in each heat plus the fastest sixth place advanced to the semifinals. The top two from each of the three semifinals plus the two best third-place times advanced to the "A" final, and competed for medals. The next eight fastest advanced to the "B" final.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 17 August 2016	09:58 11:17	Heats Semifinals
style=background:lemonchiffon	Thursday, 18 August 2016	style=background:lemonchiffon	10:04	style=background:lemonchiffon	Finals

Results

Heats

The leading five in each heat plus the fastest sixth place advanced to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Lisa Carrington	1:54.765	SF
2	Emma Jørgensen	1:55.660	SF
3	Teresa Portela	1:56.439	SF
4	Rachel Cawthorn	1:56.612	SF
5	Zoya Ananchenko	1:58.136	SF
6	Yusmari Mengana	2:02.162
7	Afef Ben Ismail	2:08.170

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Danuta Kozák	1:53.427	SF
2	Maryna Litvinchuk	1:53.966	SF
3	Bridgitte Hartley	1:55.737	SF
4	Franziska Weber	1:56.601	SF
5	Lasma Liepa	1:59.581	SF
6	Ana Paula Vergutz	2:00.680
7	Marina Toribiong	2:14.807

Heat 3

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Zhou Yu	1:53.043	SF
2	Émilie Fournel	1:53.670	SF
3	Mariya Povh	1:54.247	SF
4	Karin Johansson	1:55.049	SF
5	Špela Ponomarenko Janić	1:55.934	SF
6	Maggie Hogan	1:58.970
7	Anne Cairns	2:01.885

Heat 4

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Inna Osypenko-Radomska	1:51.750	SF
2	Ewelina Wojnarowska	1:52.193	SF
3	Elena Aniushina	1:52.597	SF
4	Martina Kohlová	1:53.167	SF
5	Dalma Ružičić-Benedek	1:54.048	SF
6	Naomi Flood	1:54.150	SF

Semifinals

The top two from each of the semifinals plus the two best third-place times advanced to the "A" final. The next eight fastest advanced to the "B" final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Maryna Litvinchuk	1:55.641	FA
2	Lisa Carrington	1:56.155	FA
3	Dalma Ružičić-Benedek	1:57.294	FA
4	Karin Johansson	1:59.321	FB
5	Ewelina Wojnarowska	1:59.458	FB
6	Mariya Povh	2:00.714
7	Zoya Ananchenko	2:01.660

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Danuta Kozák	1:54.241	FA
2	Emma Jørgensen	1:55.193	FA
3	Zhou Yu	1:55.311	FA
4	Elena Aniushina	1:57.229	FB
5	Martina Kohlová	1:57.801	FB
6	Naomi Flood	2:01.910
7	Lasma Liepa	2:08.450

Semifinal 3

Rank	Canoer	Time	Notes
1	Franziska Weber	1:56.515	FA
2	Inna Osypenko-Radomska	1:57.627	FA
3	Špela Ponomarenko Janić	1:58.098	FB
4	Teresa Portela	1:58.360	FB
5	Bridgitte Hartley	1:58.397	FB
6	Rachel Cawthorn	1:58.410	FB
7	Émilie Fournel	1:59.638

Finals

Final B

Rank	Canoer	Time
1	Elena Aniushina	1:57.202
2	Špela Ponomarenko Janić	1:57.541
3	Teresa Portela	1:58.058
4	Ewelina Wojnarowska	1:58.167
5	Martina Kohlová	1:58.211
6	Karin Johansson	1:58.363
7	Rachel Cawthorn	1:58.470
8	Bridgitte Hartley	2:01.890

Final A

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Rank	Canoer	Time
	Danuta Kozák	1:52.494
	Emma Jørgensen	1:54.326
	Lisa Carrington	1:54.372
4	Maryna Litvinchuk	1:54.474
5	Franziska Weber	1:54.553
6	Zhou Yu	1:54.994
7	Dalma Ružičić-Benedek	1:55.095
8	Inna Osypenko-Radomska	1:56.573