Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's K-4 500 metres

Women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres; at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	6 to 8 August
Competitors	44 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:30.827
Medalists
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The women's

canoe sprint K-4 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 6 and 8 August at Eton Dorney.^[1]

Krisztina Fazekas Zur, representing Hungary, won the gold medal. Germany's team won silver and Belarus

took the bronze.

Competition format

The competition comprised three heats, a semi-finals, and a final. The first boat and second-best in each heat qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-final where the top five boats then qualified for the final.[2]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)

Date	Time	Round
Monday 6 August 2012	10:39 11:51	Heats Semi-finals
Wednesday 8 August 2012	10:44	Finals

Results

Heats

The first boat from each heat and the fastest runner-up qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Hungary	1:35.769	Q
2	Louisa Sawers	Great Britain	1:37.355
3	Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu	France	1:40.022
4	Yu Lamei Li Zhangli Ren Wenjun Liu Haiping	China	1:40.661
5	Renata Major-Kubik Marta Tibor	Serbia	1:40.756
6	Rach Lovell Hannah Davis Jo Brigden-Jones Lyndsie Fogarty	Australia	1:41.794

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze	Germany	1:31.633	Q
2	Teresa Portela Joana Vasconcelos Beatriz Gomes Helena Rodrigues	Portugal	1:32.785	Q
3	Maryna Pautaran	Belarus	1:33.676
4	Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova	Russia	1:33.680
5	Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk	Poland	1:35.843

Semifinal

The top five boats qualified for the final.

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk	Poland	1:30.338	Q, WB
2	Maryna Pautaran	Belarus	1:30.883	Q
3	Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova	Russia	1:31.824	Q
4	Louisa Sawers	Great Britain	1:32.550	Q
5	Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu	France	1:33.303	Q
6	Rach Lovell Hannah Davis Jo Brigden-Jones Lyndsie Fogarty	Australia	1:33.671
7	Renata Major-Kubik Marta Tibor	Serbia	1:33.823
8	Yu Lamei Li Zhangli Ren Wenjun Liu Haiping	China	1:34.004

Final

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time
	Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Hungary	1:30.827
	Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze	Germany	1:31.298
	Maryna Pautaran	Belarus	1:31.400
4	Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk	Poland	1:31.607
5	Louisa Sawers	Great Britain	1:33.055
6	Teresa Portela Joana Vasconcelos Beatriz Gomes Helena Rodrigues	Portugal	1:33.453
7	Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova	Russia	1:33.459
8	Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu	France	1:35.299

After winning three straight Olympic silvers in this event, Kovacs finally won her gold, beating out the German team led by Wagner-Augustin, who had won three straight Olympic golds in this event.

References

^ "Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
^ "Format Competition – Sprint". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

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[1] "Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

[2] "Format Competition – Sprint". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

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Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1	men
C-2	men
K-1	men	women
Sprint
C-1 200m	men
C-1 1000m	men
C-2 1000m	men
K-1 200m	men	women
K-1 500m		women
K-1 1000m	men
K-2 200m	men
K-2 500m		women
K-2 1000m	men
K-4 500m		women
K-4 1000m	men
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