Canoeing at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's C-1 500 metres

Men's C-1 500 metres at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Map Prachan Reservoir
Date	10–11 December 1998
Competitors	12 from 12 nations
Medalists
Kaisar Nurmaganbetov    Kazakhstan   Dmitriy Kovalenko    Uzbekistan   Lee Seung-woo    South Korea

Canoeing at the 1998 Asian Games
C-1 500 m
C-1 1000 m	men
C-2 500 m	men
C-2 1000 m	men
K-1 500 m	men	women
K-1 1000 m	men
K-2 500 m	men	women
K-2 1000 m	men
K-4 500 m		women
K-4 1000 m	men

The men's C-1 500 metres sprint canoeing competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Thailand was held on 10 and 11 December at Map Prachan Reservoir.^[1]

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish
• DSQ — Disqualified

• Qualification: 1–2 → Final (QF), 3–5 → Semifinal (QS)

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Lee Seung-woo (KOR)	2:02.64	QF
2	Shinji Abe (JPN)	2:03.41	QF
3	Zaw Win Aung (MYA)	2:08.17	QS
4	Vaga Ram (IND)	2:08.18	QS
5	Abid Khan Afridi (PAK)	2:23.78	QS
6	Nitat Naktong (THA)	2:28.17

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Meng Guanliang (CHN)	1:54.75	QF
2	Kaisar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	1:56.19	QF
3	Dmitriy Kovalenko (UZB)	2:00.49	QS
4	Hong Yong-guk (PRK)	2:03.47	QS
5	S. Fongvichith (LAO)	2:25.76	QS
6	Reynaldo Comilang (PHI)	2:32.35

• Qualification: 1–2 → Final (QF)

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Kovalenko (UZB)	2:07.75	QF
2	Hong Yong-guk (PRK)	2:13.04	QF
3	Vaga Ram (IND)	2:17.43
4	Abid Khan Afridi (PAK)	2:28.25
—	S. Fongvichith (LAO)	DNF
—	Zaw Win Aung (MYA)	DNF

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Kaisar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	2:03.51
	Dmitriy Kovalenko (UZB)	2:14.41
	Lee Seung-woo (KOR)	2:15.64
4	Shinji Abe (JPN)	2:18.91
5	Hong Yong-guk (PRK)	2:24.10
—	Meng Guanliang (CHN)	DSQ

• Medalists from previous Asian Games