These are the results of the women's K-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the sprint events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines....

. The K-1 event is raced by single-person canoe sprint kayaks.

Medalists

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Heats

The 23 competitors first raced in three heats. The top finisher in each heat moved directly to the final, and the next 6 finishers in each heat qualified for the two semifinal races. Therefore, only two kayakers were eliminated in the heats. The heats were raced on August 24.

Heat 1
1.		1:49.870	QF
2.		1:53.234	QS
3.		1:54.234	QS
4.		1:55.474	QS
5.		1:57.342	QS
6.		1:59.474	QS
7.		2:06.126	QS
		DSQ
Heat 2
1.		1:50.366	QF
2.		1:50.466	QS
3.		1:52.834	QS
4.		1:54.518	QS
5.		1:55.806	QS
6.		1:56.586	QS
7.		1:56.678	QS
8.		2:03.790
Heat 3
1.		1:53.508	QF
2.		1:53.840	QS
3.		1:54.828	QS
4.		1:55.244	QS
5.		1:57.708	QS
6.		1:58.520	QS
7.		2:00.860	QS

Sergeyeva was disqualified for not keeping her boat in the automatic starting system, delaying the race start by five minutes. She was also disqualified for starting outside of the automatic starting system.

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the final. Fourth place and higher competitors were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 26.

Semifinal 1
1.		1:52.630	QF
2.		1:53.050	QF
3.		1:53.598	QF
4.		1:54.534
5.		1:54.950
6.		1:55.766
7.		1:56.154
8.		1:56.198
9.		2:00.198
Semifinal 2
1.		1:50.844	QF
2.		1:55.096	QF
3.		1:56.432	QF
4.		1:56.712
5.		1:57.944
6.		1:59.560
7.		2:03.076
8.		2:06.692
9.		DSQ

Pastuszka was disqualified for competing in an underweight boat.

Final

The final was raced on August 28.

		1:47.741
		1:49.729
		1:50.601
4.		1:52.557
5.		1:52.685
6.		1:53.089
7.		1:53.717
8.		1:53.937
9.		1:54.473

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 three months before the 2004 Games

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