The results of category C1 men - qualification

In the qualification the best time was reached by silver medails from Beijing and winner of last year World Cup series David Florence from Great Britain, who showed two great runs and with the time 84,65s goes to tommorrow's final. The second was Slowakian Alexander Slafkovský, who reached time 84,83s in his first run, but his second run was not as good as the first one, because he hit two gates ad the penalization of 4s was added to his reached time.The third was Frenchman Martin Thomas with the time 85,60s.

 

The biggest leader Michal Martikán (Slovakia), gold medalist from the Olympic Games in Beijing and multiple winner of World and European Championships, was 4th. In the first run he hit one gate and penalization of 2s was added to his reached time. In his second and better run he reached the time 85,61s, although he obviously didn't try to do his best at the end of the race, rather he tried to save strenght for his tommorrow race.

The detailed results can be seen here. The best 30 athletes go to tommorrow's semifinals. All of the Czech paddlers successfully passed this race and we can see them in tommorrow's semifinal. Michal Jáně (12.), Stanilav Ježek (16.) and Jan Mašek (22.)