Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres

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Canoeing at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1men
C-2men
K-1menwomen
Sprint
C-1 500 mmen
C-1 1000 mmen
C-2 500 mmen
C-2 1000 mmen
K-1 500 mmenwomen
K-1 1000 mmen
K-2 500 mmenwomen
K-2 1000 mmen
K-4 500 mwomen
K-4 1000 mmen

The men's C-2 500 metres competition in

Summer Olympics. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced by 200 m events at the 2012 Summer Olympics with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women. The other events for men at 200 m will be C-1, C-2, and K-1.[1]

Competition consists of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals, and the final. All boats compete in the heats. The top finisher in each of the three heats advances directly to the final, while the next six finishers (places 2 through 7) in each heat move on to the semifinals. The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals join the heats winners in the final.

Heats took place on August 19, semifinal on August 21, and final on August 23.

Schedule

All times are

UTC+8
)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 17:30-17:50 Heats
Thursday, August 21, 2008 16:50-17:00 Semifinal
Saturday, August 23, 2008 17:05-17:20 Final

Medalists

Gold Gold Silver Silver Bronze Bronze
 Meng Guanliang
and Yang Wenjun (CHN) 		 
Alexander Kostoglod
and Sergey Ulegin (RUS
) 		 Christian Gille
and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)

Results

Heats

Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, 4..7->Semifinal + 8th best time, Rest Out

Heat 1

Rank Athletes Country Time Notes
1 Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun  China 1:41.218 QF
2 Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod  Russia 1:41.241 QF
3 Daniel Jędraszko, Roman Rynkiewicz  Poland 1:42.309 QF
4 Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis  Lithuania 1:42.803 QS
5 Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev  Bulgaria 1:43.428 QS
6
Mihály Zoltán Sáfrán
  Hungary 1:43.642 QS
7
Karel Aguilar
  Cuba 1:44.155 QS
8 Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo  Mexico 1:54.090 QS

Heat 2

Rank Athletes Country Time Notes
1 Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek  Germany 1:41.513 QF
2 Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich  Belarus 1:41.767 QF
3
Sergiy Bezuglyy, Maksym Prokopenko
  Ukraine 1:42.054 QF
4
Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici
  Romania 1:42.306 QS
5 Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny  Canada 1:43.189 QS
6 Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba  France 1:43.453 QS
7
Aleksey Dyadchuk
  Kazakhstan 1:45.730 QS

Semifinal

Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out

Rank Athletes Country Time Notes
1
Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici
  Romania 1:42.545 QF
2 Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev  Bulgaria 1:42.891 QF
3 Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny  Canada 1:42.921 QF
4 Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis  Lithuania 1:43.299
5
Karel Aguilar
  Cuba 1:43.673
6 Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba  France 1:43.874
7
Aleksey Dyadchuk
  Kazakhstan 1:44.992
8
Mihály Zoltán Sáfrán
  Hungary 1:45.032
9 Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo  Mexico 1:48.853

Final

Rank Athletes Country Time Notes
Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun  China 1:41.025
Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod  Russia 1:41.282
Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek  Germany 1:41.964
4 Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich  Belarus 1:41.996
5 Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny  Canada 1:42.450
6
Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici
  Romania 1:43.195
7 Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev  Bulgaria 1:43.971
8
Sergiy Bezuglyy, Maksym Prokopenko
  Ukraine 1:44.157
9 Daniel Jędraszko, Roman Rynkiewicz  Poland 1:44.389

The Chinese duo repeated their gold from 2004 and had to be fished out of the water after Meng Guanliang dived into the water right after crossing the finish line, causing the canoe to capsize.

References

  1. ^ 13 August 2009 International Canoe Federation announcement of canoe sprint format changes for the 2012 Summer Olympics. – accessed 14 August 2009.
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