Canoeing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 500 metres

The men's C-1 500 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1984 Summer Olympics program.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Larry Cain (CAN)	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	Costică Olaru (ROU)

Results

Heats

13 competitors were entered. Held on August 6, the top three finishers in each heat moved on to the semifinals with the others were relegated to the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	2:05.09	QS
2.	Timo Grönlund (FIN)	2:06.11	QS
3.	Kiyoto Inoue (JPN)	2:06.61	QS
4.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	2:07.90	QR
5.	Stephen Train (GBR)	2:08.80	QR
6.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:13.21	QR
Heat 2
1.	Costică Olaru (ROU)	2:03.49	QS
2.	Larry Cain (CAN)	2:04.30	QS
3.	Hartmut Faust (FRG)	2:05.95	QS
4.	John Plankenhorn (USA)	2:07.20	QR
5.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:08.01	QR
6.	Göran Backlund (SWE)	2:15.72	QR
7.	Yun Hui-Chun (KOR)	2:40.92	QR

Repechages

Repechages were held on August 6 with the top three finishers in each repechage advancing to the semifinals.

Repechage 1
1.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:08.30	QS
2.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:09.72	QS
3.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	2:10.44	QS
4.	Yun Hui-Chun (KOR)	2:51.38
Repechage 2
1.	Stephen Train (GBR)	2:12.69	QS
2.	John Plankenhorn (USA)	2:13.18	QS
3.	Göran Backlund (SWE)	2:21.81	QS

Semifinals

Three semifinals were held on August 8 with the top three finishers of each semifinal advancing to the final.

Semifinal 1
1.	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	2:01.42	QF
2.	Hartmut Faust (FRG)	2:02.60	QF
3.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	2:03.30	QF
4.	Stephen Train (GBR)	2:06.01
Semifinal 2
1.	Costică Olaru (ROU)	2:02.62	QF
2.	Kiyoto Inoue (JPN)	2:03.55	QF
3.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:04.38	QF
4.	John Plankenhorn (USA)	2:04.54
Semifinal 3
1.	Larry Cain (CAN)	2:02.60	QF
2.	Timo Grönlund (FIN)	2:03.36	QF
3.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:06.87	QF
4.	Göran Backlund (SWE)	2:14.08

Final

The final took place on August 10.

	Larry Cain (CAN)	1:57.91
	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	1:58.45
	Costică Olaru (ROU)	1:59.86
4.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	1:59.95
5.	Timo Grönlund (FIN)	2:01.00
6.	Kiyoto Inoue (JPN)	2:01.79
7.	Hartmut Faust (FRG)	2:01.85
8.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:02.12
9.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:03.95