2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's VL2

Men's VL2 at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	22–25 August
Competitors	16 from 12 nations
Winning time	54.316
Medalists
Igor Alex Tofalini    Brazil   Luis Cardoso da Silva    Brazil   Marius Bogdan Ciustea    Italy
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The men's VL2 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho. ^[1]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows: ^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday 22 August 2018	15:35	Heats
	16:50	Semifinal
Saturday 25 August 2018	10:41	Final

All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Heats

The fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal. ^{[3] [4]}

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Luis Cardoso da Silva	Brazil	1:02.534	QF
2	Higinio Rivero	Spain	1:04.239	QF
3	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	1:05.024	QF
4	Róbert Suba	Hungary	1:06.564	QS
5	Jakub Tokarz	Poland	1:06.599	QS
6	Cyrille Hureau	France	1:09.175	QS
7	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	1:13.745	QS
–	Oleksandr Suprun	Ukraine	DNF
–	Andrei Tkachuk	Belarus	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marius Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	1:02.299	QF
2	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	1:02.849	QF
3	Roman Serebryakov	Russia	1:03.609	QF
4	Ilya Taupianets	Belarus	1:07.824	QS
5	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	1:09.514	QS
6	Raiarii Teuiau	Tahiti	1:13.879	QS
7	Floriano Jesus	Portugal	1:31.465	QS

Semifinal

The fastest three boats advanced to the final. ^[5]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jakub Tokarz	Poland	1:00.768	QF
2	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	1:01.278	QF
3	Róbert Suba	Hungary	1:01.623	QF
4	Ilya Taupianets	Belarus	1:02.153
5	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	1:02.738
6	Cyrille Hureau	France	1:04.248
7	Raiarii Teuiau	Tahiti	1:11.329
8	Floriano Jesus	Portugal	1:21.214

Final

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three. ^[6]

Rank	Name	Country	Time
	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	54.316
	Luis Cardoso da Silva	Brazil	54.911
	Marius Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	55.246
4	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	55.706
5	Roman Serebryakov	Russia	55.931
6	Róbert Suba	Hungary	56.266
7	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	56.606
8	Higinio Rivero	Spain	56.811
9	Jakub Tokarz	Poland	58.106

References

1. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | How to get here". Federação Portuguesa de Canoagem. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
2. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | TIME TABLE & RESULTS". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
3. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | VL2 Men 200m - 1st Heat". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
4. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | VL2 Men 200m - 2nd Heat". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
5. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | VL2 Men 200m - 1st Semi-final". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
6. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | VL2 Men 200m - Final A". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 22 August 2018.