2025 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-4 500 metres

Men's K-4 500 metres at the 2025 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Idroscalo Regatta Course
Location	Milan, Italy
Dates	20–22 August
Competitors	108 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:18.93
Medalists
Gustavo Gonçalves João Ribeiro Messias Baptista Pedro Casinha    Portugal   Márk Opavszky Bence Fodor Gergely Balogh Zsombor Tamási    Hungary   Adrián del Río Alex Graneri Carlos Arévalo Rodrigo Germade    Spain
←  2023

The men's K-4 500 metres competition at the 2025 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan took place in Idroscalo Regatta Course. ^[1]

Schedule

The schedule is as follows:

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday 20 August 2025	09:24	Heats
Thursday 21 August 2025	14:12	Semifinals
Friday 22 August 2025	14:31	Final B
	15:11	Final A

Results

Heats

The fastest boat in each heat advanced directly to the final (FA). The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinal (QS). ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Heat 1

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Adrián del Río Alex Graneri Carlos Arévalo Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:21.33	FA
2	Márk Opavszky Bence Fodor Gergely Balogh Zsombor Tamási	Hungary	1:21.46	QS
3	Jakub Stepun Valerii Vichev Sławomir Witczak Jaroslaw Kajdanek	Poland	1:22.80	QS
4	Max Rendschmidt Anton Winkelmann Jacob Schopf Max Lemke	Germany	1:22.87	QS
5	Gustav Bock Lasse Bro Madsen Morten Graversen Victor Gairy Aasmul	Denmark	1:23.56	QS
6	Bu Tingkai Liang Fengwei Wang Chi Zhang Dong	China	1:24.29	QS
7	Masaya Tanaka Ryuji Matsushiro Akihiro Inoue Taishi Tanada	Japan	1:25.99	QS
8	Sean Talbert Aaron Small Cole Jones Augustus Cook	United States	1:27.43
9	Koh Teck Wai Daniel Jovi Jayden Kalaichelvan Ooi Brandon Wei Cheng Alden Ler	Singapore	1:33.51

Heat 2

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mikita Borykau Uladzislau Kravets Uladzislau Litvinau Dzmitry Natynchyk	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:21.37	FA
2	Aleksandr Sergeyev Vitaly Ershov Maxim Spesivtsev Viktor Gavrilenko	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:21.41	QS
3	Simonas Maldonis Viktor Čaplinskij Ignas Navakauskas Artūras Seja	Lithuania	1:21.61	QS
4	Manfredi Rizza Francesco Lanciotti Nicola Volo Giovanni Penato	Italy	1:21.94	QS
5	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters Rafaël Bastiaens Louis Vangeel	Belgium	1:22.80	QS
6	Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Danylenko Ihor Trunov Oleksandr Zaitsev	Ukraine	1:23.38	QS
7	Andjelo Džombeta Milos Stojkov Stefan Vrdoljak Zarko Jakovljevic	Serbia	1:24.60	QS
8	Milan Dörner Dominik Doktorik Juraj Kukučka Daniel Rybanský	Slovakia	1:25.68
9	Subhi Subhi Dede Sunandar Wandi Wandi Indra Hidayat	Indonesia	1:29.23

Heat 3

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gustavo Gonçalves João Ribeiro Messias Baptista Pedro Casinha	Portugal	1:21.34	FA
2	Michal Kulich Daniel Havel Jakub Špicar Radek Šlouf	Czech Republic	1:22.35	QS
3	Grant Clancy James Munro Kacey Ngataki Kalani Gilbertson	New Zealand	1:23.34	QS
4	Cho Gwang-hee Choi Min-kyu Jang Sang-won Kim Hyo-bin	South Korea	1:24.24	QS
5	Hugo Lagerstam Johan Myrberg Jesper Johansson Karl Brodén	Sweden	1:24.93	QS
6	Luca Lauper Sven Hirzel Donat Donhauser Fynn Wyss	Switzerland	1:25.64	QS
7	Shakhriyor Makhkamov Oleksandr Zarubin Lochinbek Esonaliev Shokhrukhbek Azamov	Uzbekistan	1:25.67	QS
8	Tomthilnganba Ngashepam Himanshu Tandan Varinder Singh Rimson Mairembam	India	1:33.49
9	Edgar Tutyan Artur Akishin Tigran Khachatryan Karen Sultanyan	Armenia	1:40.61

Semifinals

The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next four fastest boats in each semi and best 8th advanced to the final B. ^{[5] [6]}

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Márk Opavszky Bence Fodor Gergely Balogh Zsombor Tamási	Hungary	1:19.88	FA
2	Max Rendschmidt Anton Winkelmann Jacob Schopf Max Lemke	Germany	1:20.04	FA
3	Simonas Maldonis Viktor Čaplinskij Ignas Navakauskas Artūras Seja	Lithuania	1:21.27	FA
4	Bu Tingkai Liang Fengwei Wang Chi Zhang Dong	China	1:21.77	FB
5	Andjelo Džombeta Milos Stojkov Stefan Vrdoljak Zarko Jakovljevic	Serbia	1:22.31	FB
6	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters Rafaël Bastiaens Louis Vangeel	Belgium	1:22.47	FB
7	Grant Clancy James Munro Kacey Ngataki Kalani Gilbertson	New Zealand	1:23.34	FB
8	Cho Gwang-hee Choi Min-kyu Jang Sang-won Kim Hyo-bin	South Korea	1:24.23	fB
9	Luca Lauper Sven Hirzel Donat Donhauser Fynn Wyss	Switzerland	1:24.82

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Manfredi Rizza Francesco Lanciotti Nicola Volo Giovanni Penato	Italy	1:20.42	FA
2	Jakub Stepun Valerii Vichev Sławomir Witczak Jaroslaw Kajdanek	Poland	1:20.49	FA
3	Michal Kulich Daniel Havel Jakub Špicar Radek Šlouf	Czech Republic	1:20.63	FA
4	Gustav Bock Lasse Bro Madsen Morten Graversen Victor Gairy Aasmul	Denmark	1:20.78	FB
5	Aleksandr Sergeyev Vitaly Ershov Maxim Spesivtsev Viktor Gavrilenko	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:20.86	FB
6	Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Danylenko Ihor Trunov Oleksandr Zaitsev	Ukraine	1:21.07	FB
7	Hugo Lagerstam Johan Myrberg Jesper Johansson Karl Brodén	Sweden	1:23.30	FB
8	Ryuji Matsushiro Masaya Tanaka Akihiro Inoue Taishi Tanada	Japan	1:24.49
9	Shakhriyor Makhkamov Oleksandr Zarubin Lochinbek Esonaliev Shokhrukhbek Azamov	Uzbekistan	1:26.53

Finals

Final B

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18. ^[7]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gustav Bock Lasse Bro Madsen Morten Graversen Victor Gairy Aasmul	Denmark	1:21.21
2	Aleksandr Sergeyev Vitaly Ershov Maxim Spesivtsev Viktor Gavrilenko	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:21.32
3	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters Rafaël Bastiaens Louis Vangeel	Belgium	1:22.09
4	Bu Tingkai Liang Fengwei Wang Chi Zhang Dong	China	1:22.54
5	Cho Gwang-hee Choi Min-kyu Jang Sang-won Kim Hyo-bin	South Korea	1:22.88
6	Grant Clancy James Munro Kacey Ngataki Kalani Gilbertson	New Zealand	1:23.48
7	Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Danylenko Ihor Trunov Oleksandr Zaitsev	Ukraine	1:23.85
8	Hugo Lagerstam Johan Myrberg Jesper Johansson Karl Brodén	Sweden	1:24.10
9	Andjelo Džombeta Milos Stojkov Stefan Vrdoljak Zarko Jakovljevic	Serbia	1:24.92

Final A

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three. ^[8]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
	Gustavo Gonçalves João Ribeiro Messias Baptista Pedro Casinha	Portugal	1:18.93
	Márk Opavszky Bence Fodor Gergely Balogh Zsombor Tamási	Hungary	1:18.98
	Adrián del Río Alex Graneri Carlos Arévalo Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:19.33
4	Max Rendschmidt Anton Winkelmann Jacob Schopf Max Lemke	Germany	1:19.57
5	Simonas Maldonis Viktor Čaplinskij Ignas Navakauskas Artūras Seja	Lithuania	1:20.21
6	Michal Kulich Daniel Havel Jakub Špicar Radek Šlouf	Czech Republic	1:20.63
7	Manfredi Rizza Francesco Lanciotti Nicola Volo Giovanni Penato	Italy	1:20.68
8	Jakub Stepun Valerii Vichev Sławomir Witczak Jaroslaw Kajdanek	Poland	1:21.12
9	Mikita Borykau Uladzislau Kravets Uladzislau Litvinau Dzmitry Natynchyk	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:21.92

References

1. "Timetable" (PDF). ICF. 19 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
2. "K4 Men 500m - 1st Heat" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
3. "K4 Men 500m - 2nd Heat" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
4. "K4 Men 500m - 3rd Heat" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
5. "K4 Men 500m - Semifinal 1" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 21 August 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
6. "K4 Men 500m - Semifinal 2" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 21 August 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
7. "K4 Men 500m - Final B" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 22 August 2025. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
8. "K4 Men 500m - Final A" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 22 August 2025. Retrieved 22 August 2025.