Following are the semifinal results of men's canoe single (C1) 500m at Beijing Olympics held in Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on Thursday:
Semifinal 1
1. Lurii Cheban, Ukraine, 1 minute 51.507 seconds
2. Mathieu Goubel, France, 1:52.239
3. Li Qiang, China, 1:52.887
4. Andreas Dittmer, Germany, 1:53.182
5. Aldo Pruna, Cuba, 1:53.809
6. Vadim Menkov, Uzbekistan, 1:55.610
7. Nivalter Jesus, Brazil, 1:56.139
8. Marian Ostrcil, Slovakia, 1:58.401
9. Sean Pangelinan, Guam, 2:17.940
Semifinal 2
1. Attila Sandor Vajda, Hungary, 1:51.029
2. Florin Georgian Mironcic, Romania, 1:51.535
3. Pawel Baraszkiewicz, Poland, 1:51.744
4. Mark Oldershaw, Canada, 1:52.649
5. Andreas Kiligkaridis, Greece, 1:56.310
6. Mikelis Ezmalis, Latvia, 1:56.907
7. Torsten Lachmann, Australia, 1:59.119
8. Mikhail Yemelyanov, Kazakhstan, 2:06.908
9. Calvin Mokoto, South Africa, 2:12.226
Note: The top three in each group go to final and the rest out.
(Xinhua News Agency August 21, 2008)