Canoeing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

Men's canoe sprint C-1 1000 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Lake Albano
Date	26–29 August 1960
Competitors	13 from 13 nations
Winning time	4:33.03
Medalists
János Parti  Hungary Aleksandr Silayev  Soviet Union Leon Rotman  Romania

The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1960 Summer Olympics program on Lake Albano.

Competition format

The competition was held over four rounds: heats, repechages, semifinals, and a final. Nobody was eliminated in the heats; the top three canoeists in each of the two heats advanced to the semifinals while all others who competed moved to the repechages. With only 13 competitors entering, this put seven canoeists in the repechages. There were two repechage heats, with the top three in each heat advancing to the semifinals—and only one canoeist eliminated. The semifinals consisted of three heats of four boats each, with the top three in each advancing to the final and only the fourth-place finisher eliminated. Thus, the first three rounds of competition narrowed the field only from 13 to nine boats.

Results

Heats

Fifteen competitors were entered, but only 13 competed on August 26. The top three finishers in both heats advanced in the semifinals while the others went to the repechages.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Silayev	Soviet Union	4:41.81	Q
2	Bogdan Ivanov	Bulgaria	4:47.65	Q
3	Erik Christensen	Denmark	4:50.71	Q
4	Olavi Ojanperä	Finland	4:54.37	R
5	Danilo Tognon	Italy	4:56.58	R
6	Adrian Powell	Australia	5:00.54	R
7	Frank Havens	United States	5:19.40	R

Heat 2

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	János Parti	Hungary	4:36.80	Q
2	Ove Emanuelsson	Sweden	4:36.92	Q
3	Tibor Polakovič	Czechoslovakia	4:38.25	Q
4	Leon Rotman	Romania	4:39.36	R
5	Detlef Lewe	United Team of Germany	4:43.07	R
6	Donald Stringer	Canada	4:44.55	R
–	Kurt Liebhart	Austria	DNS
–	Michel Picard	France	DNS

Repechages

Competed on August 26, the top three finishers in each of the two heats move to the semifinals.

Repechage 1

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Detlef Lewe	United Team of Germany	4:46.99	Q
2	Adrian Powell	Australia	4:55.24	Q
3	Olavi Ojanperä	Finland	5:00.92	Q

Repechage 2

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Donald Stringer	Canada	4:44.36	Q
2	Leon Rotman	Romania	5:03.98	Q
3	Danilo Tognon	Italy	5:06.86	Q
4	Frank Havens	United States	5:13.34

Semifinals

Twelve canoers competed in the semifinals on August 27. The top three finishers in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Silayev	Soviet Union	4:36.89	Q
2	Tibor Polakovič	Czechoslovakia	4:37.94	Q
3	Donald Stringer	Canada	4:41.35	Q
4	Olavi Ojanperä	Finland	5:00.88

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	János Parti	Hungary	4:40.50	Q
2	Leon Rotman	Romania	4:43.66	Q
3	Erik Christensen	Denmark	4:48.18	Q
4	Adrian Powell	Australia	4:59.81

Semifinal 3

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ove Emanuelsson	Sweden	4:44.68	Q
2	Bogdan Ivanov	Bulgaria	4:44.93	Q
3	Detlef Lewe	United Team of Germany	4:47.06	Q
4	Danilo Tognon	Italy	5:04.82

Final

The final took place on August 29. Parti won using a canoe of his own design.

Rank	Canoeist	Nation	Time
	János Parti	Hungary	4:33.03
	Aleksandr Silayev	Soviet Union	4:34.41
	Leon Rotman	Romania	4:35.87
4	Ove Emanuelsson	Sweden	4:36.46
5	Tibor Polakovič	Czechoslovakia	4:39.72
6	Detlef Lewe	United Team of Germany	4:39.72
7	Donald Stringer	Canada	4:40.65
8	Bogdan Ivanov	Bulgaria	4:42.52
9	Erik Christensen	Denmark	4:49.63

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2, Part 1. pp. 254–6.
• Sports-reference.com 1960 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.