Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 1000 metres

The men's K-4 1000 metres event was a fours kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics program.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Germany (GER) Thomas Reineck Olaf Winter Detlef Hofmann Mark Zabel	Hungary (HUN) András Rajna Gábor Horváth Ferenc Csipes Attila Adrovicz	Russia (RUS) Oleg Gorobiy Sergey Verlin Georgiy Tsybulnikov Anatoli Tishchenko

16 crews entered in two heats. The top two finishers in each heat advanced to the final while the remaining teams competed in the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	Thomas Reineck, Mark Zabel, Detlef Hofmann, and Olaf Winter (GER)	3:07.908	QF
2.	Anatoli Tishchenko, Oleg Gorobiy, Sergey Verlin, and Georgiy Tsybulnikov (RUS)	3:11.128	QF
3.	James Walker, Paul Lynch, Brian Morton, and Ramon Andersson (AUS)	3:11.752	QS
4.	Miguel García, Jovino González, Emilio Merchán, and Gregorio Vicente (ESP)	3:14.224	QS
5.	Mihai Apostol, Renn Crichlow, Peter Giles, and Liam Jewell (CAN)	3:15.208	QS
6.	Andrea Covi, Enrico Lupetti, Ivano Lussignoli, and Luca Negri (ITA)	3:17.144	QS
7.	Karel Leština, Pavel Mráz, Martin Otáhal, and Jiří Polívka (CZE)	3:19.868	QS
8.	Curt Bader, Philippe Boccara, Mark Hamilton, and Cliff Meidl (USA)	3:23.352	QS
Heat 2
1.	Ferenc Csipes, Gábor Horváth, Attila Adrovicz, and András Rajna (HUN)	3:07.517	QF
2.	Grzegorz Kaleta, Piotr Markiewicz, Marek Witowski, and Adam Wysocki (POL)	3:10.625	QF
3.	Petar Karadzhov, Petar Merkov, Nikolay Yordanov, and Georgi Choykov (BUL)	3:13.165	QS
4.	Paw Madsen, Mattias Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson, and Jonas Fager (SWE)	3:13.809	QS
5.	Ilfat Gatyatullin, Dmitry Torlopov, Andrey Safaryan, and Sergey Skrypnik (KAZ)	3:15.493	QS
6.	V'iacheslav Kulida, Olesksiy Slivinsky, Andriy Borzukov, and Andriy Petrov (UKR)	3:16.297	QS
7.	Morten Ivarsen, Mattis Næss, Tom Selvik, and Thomas Roander (NOR)	3:17.021	QS
8.	Vladimir Kazantsev, Konstantin Yashin, Anatoly Tyurin, and Andrey Shilin (UZB)	3:27.133	QS

The top two finishers in the each semifinal and the fastest third-place finisher advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
1.	Miguel García, Jovino González, Emilio Merchán, and Gregorio Vicente (ESP)	3:00.799	QF
2.	Mihai Apostol, Renn Crichlow, Peter Giles, and Liam Jewell (CAN)	3:01.307	QF
3.	Petar Karadzhov, Petar Merkov, Nikolay Yordanov, and Georgi Choykov (BUL)	3:01.427	QF
4.	V'iacheslav Kulida, Olesksiy Slivinsky, Andriy Borzukov, and Andriy Petrov (UKR)	3:05.643
5.	Karel Leština, Pavel Mráz, Martin Otáhal, and Jiří Polívka (CZE)	3:06.611
6.	Curt Bader, Philippe Boccara, Mark Hamilton, and Cliff Meidl (USA)	3:06.855
Semifinal 2
1.	James Walker, Paul Lynch, Brian Morton, and Ramon Andersson (AUS)	3:01.806	QF
2.	Paw Madsen, Mattias Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson, and Jonas Fager (SWE)	3:02.202	QF
3.	Andrea Covi, Enrico Lupetti, Ivano Lussignoli, and Luca Negri (ITA)	3:03.218
4.	Morten Ivarsen, Mattis Næss, Tom Selvik, and Thomas Roander (NOR)	3:03.870
5.	Ilfat Gatyatullin, Dmitry Torlopov, Andrey Safaryan, and Sergey Skrypnik (KAZ)	3:06.850
6.	Vladimir Kazantsev, Konstantin Yashin, Anatoly Tyurin, and Andrey Shilin (UZB)	3:11.146

The final was held on August 3.

	Thomas Reineck, Mark Zabel, Detlef Hofmann, and Olaf Winter (GER)	2:51.528
	Ferenc Csipes, Gábor Horváth, Attila Adrovicz, and András Rajna (HUN)	2:53.184
	Anatoli Tishchenko, Oleg Gorobiy, Sergey Verlin, and Georgiy Tsybulnikov (RUS)	2:53.996
4.	Grzegorz Kaleta, Piotr Markiewicz, Marek Witowski, and Adam Wysocki (POL)	2:54.772
5.	Miguel García, Jovino González, Emilio Merchán, and Gregorio Vicente (ESP)	2:55.884
6.	Paw Madsen, Mattias Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson, and Jonas Fager (SWE)	2:55.908
7.	Mihai Apostol, Renn Crichlow, Peter Giles, and Liam Jewell (CAN)	2:56.664
8.	Petar Karadzhov, Petar Merkov, Nikolay Yordanov, and Georgi Choykov (BUL)	2:56.696
9.	James Walker, Paul Lynch, Brian Morton, and Ramon Andersson (AUS)	2:57.560

Germany stayed close to Hungary for the first 750 meters of the race before pulling away to win decisively.

1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. p. 171. (in English and French)
Sports-reference.com 1996 K-4 1000 m results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Fours 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 478.

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