# Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom K-1

The men's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 11 and 12 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (single kayak) event was raced by one-man kayaks through a whitewater course.
There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 15 boats advanced to the semifinals.
The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 10 scores from that run; those 10 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total.

## Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Monday, August 11, 2008 | 15:50-16:50 | Heats 1st Run |
| Monday, August 11, 2008 | 17:42-18:40 | Heats 2nd Run |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 15:40-16:40 | Semifinal |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 17:17-18:00 | Final |

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Alexander Grimm (GER) | Fabien Lefèvre (FRA) | Benjamin Boukpeti (TOG) |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Name | Country | Preliminary runs | Preliminary runs | Preliminary runs |
| Rank | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Peter Kauzer | Slovenia | 81.79 | 84.70 | 166.49 |
| 2 | Fabien Lefèvre | France | 85.66 | 82.40 | 168.06 |
| 3 | Daniele Molmenti | Italy | 85.13 | 83.46 | 168.59 |
| 4 | Alexander Grimm | Germany | 84.90 | 84.36 | 169.26 |
| 5 | Dariusz Popiela | Poland | 85.51 | 85.51 | 171.02 |
| 6 | Helmut Oblinger | Austria | 86.21 | 85.54 | 171.75 |
| 7 | Vavřinec Hradilek | Czech Republic | 85.61 | 86.41 | 172.02 |
| 8 | Benjamin Boukpeti | Togo | 90.17 | 82.09 | 172.26 |
| 9 | Campbell Walsh | Great Britain | 86.72 | 85.72 | 172.44 |
| 10 | Warwick Draper | Australia | 86.28 | 86.30 | 172.58 |
| 11 | Peter Cibák | Slovakia | 86.26 | 86.69 | 172.95 |
| 12 | Guillermo Díez-Canedo | Spain | 84.95 | 88.07 | 173.02 |
| 13 | David Ford | Canada | 85.35 | 89.49 | 174.84 |
| 14 | Robert Bouten | Netherlands | 86.26 | 88.90 | 175.16 |
| 15 | Eoin Rheinisch | Ireland | 88.52 | 87.81 | 176.33 |
| 16 | Pablo McCandless | Chile | 88.24 | 88.40 | 176.64 |
| 17 | Michael Kurt | Switzerland | 87.58 | 91.08 | 178.66 |
| 18 | Kazuki Yazawa | Japan | 89.82 | 90.05 | 179.87 |
| 19 | Atanas Nikolovski | Macedonia | 92.63 | 88.56 | 181.19 |
| 20 | Scott Parsons | United States | 84.91 | 135.63 | 220.54 |
| 21 | Ding Fuxue | China | 87.47 | 140.92 | 228.39 |
    Qualified for semifinals

### Semifinal

| Rank | Name | Country | Semifinal run | Semifinal run |
| Rank | Name | Country | Penalty seconds | Time |
| 1 | Benjamin Boukpeti | Togo | 0 | 86.08 |
| 2 | Warwick Draper | Australia | 0 | 86.09 |
| 3 | Fabien Lefèvre | France | 0 | 87.21 |
| 4 | Alexander Grimm | Germany | 0 | 87.31 |
| 5 | Robert Bouten | Netherlands | 0 | 88.40 |
| 6 | David Ford | Canada | 0 | 88.46 |
| 7 | Dariusz Popiela | Poland | 0 | 88.49 |
| 8 | Daniele Molmenti | Italy | 2 | 88.56 |
| 9 | Helmut Oblinger | Austria | 0 | 88.69 |
| 10 | Eoin Rheinisch | Ireland | 0 | 88.85 |
| 11 | Vavřinec Hradilek | Czech Republic | 0 | 88.97 |
| 12 | Peter Cibák | Slovakia | 2 | 89.41 |
| 13 | Peter Kauzer | Slovenia | 4 | 89.42 |
| 14 | Guillermo Díez-Canedo | Spain | 2 | 90.06 |
| 15 | Campbell Walsh | Great Britain | 2 | 95.74 |
    Qualified for final

### Final

| Rank | Name | Country | Semifinal run | Semifinal run | Final run | Final run | Total |
| Rank | Name | Country | Penalty seconds | Time | Penalty seconds | Time | Total |
| | Alexander Grimm | Germany | 0 | 87.31 | 0 | 84.39 | 171.70 |
| | Fabien Lefèvre | France | 0 | 87.21 | 0 | 86.09 | 173.30 |
| | Benjamin Boukpeti | Togo | 0 | 86.08 | 0 | 87.37 | 173.45 |
| 4 | Eoin Rheinisch | Ireland | 0 | 88.85 | 0 | 88.06 | 176.91 |
| 5 | Warwick Draper | Australia | 0 | 86.09 | 0 | 91,76 | 177,85 |
| 6 | David Ford | Canada | 0 | 88.46 | 2 | 87,89 | 178,35 |
| 7 | Helmut Oblinger | Austria | 0 | 88.69 | 2 | 88,14 | 178,83 |
| 8 | Dariusz Popiela | Poland | 0 | 88.49 | 0 | 91,19 | 179,68 |
| 9 | Robert Bouten | Netherlands | 0 | 88.40 | 50 | 89,59 | 227,99 |
| 10 | Daniele Molmenti | Italy | 2 | 88.56 | 52 | 90,37 | 230,93 |