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)