Heats

The winner of each heat qualify to the finals, remainder goes to the repechage.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Roman Polianskyi	Ukraine	4:44.70	Q,PB
2	Huang Cheng	China	4:59.61	R
3	Blake Haxton	United States	5:00.57	R
4	Renê Pereira	Brazil	5:05.12	R
5	Alexander Van Holk	Netherlands	5:07.20	R
6	Itaken Kipelian	Kenya	5:27.94	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Erik Horrie	Australia	4:45.87	Q
2	Tom Aggar	Great Britain	4:50.99	R
3	Fabrizio Caselli	Italy	5:10.02	R
4	Augustas Navickas	Lithuania	5:10.24	R
5	Park Jun-ha	South Korea	5:10.75	R
6	Johannes Schmidt	Germany	5:27.77	R

Repechages

First two of each heat qualify to the finals, remainder goes to the Final B.

Repechage 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Huang Cheng	China	4:59.50	Q
2	Renê Pereira	Brazil	5:04.62	Q
3	Park Jun-ha	South Korea	5:07.49	Final B
4	Fabrizio Caselli	Italy	5:08.96	Final B
5	Itaken Kipelian	Kenya	5:35.45	Final B

Repechage 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tom Aggar	Great Britain	4:56.17	Q
2	Blake Haxton	United States	5:03.43	Q
3	Alexander Van Holk	Netherlands	5:07.87	Final B
4	Johannes Schmidt	Germany	5:22.97	Final B
5	Augustas Navickas	Lithuania	5:13.07	Final B, Boat under weight

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Alexander Van Holk	Netherlands	5:04.94
2	Fabrizio Caselli	Italy	5:06.37
3	Park Jun-ha	South Korea	5:08.78
4	Augustas Navickas	Lithuania	5:10.21
5	Johannes Schmidt	Germany	5:12.14
6	Itaken Kipelian	Kenya	5:39.22

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
	Roman Polianskyi	Ukraine	4:39.56	PB
	Erik Horrie	Australia	4:42.94
	Tom Aggar	Great Britain	4:50.90
4	Blake Haxton	United States	4:54.25
5	Huang Cheng	China	4:54.43
6	Renê Pereira	Brazil	5:04.90