2025 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's VL2

Men's VL2 at the 2025 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Idroscalo Regatta Course
Location	Milan, Italy
Dates	20–23 August
Competitors	18 from 15 nations
Winning time	51.80
Medalists
Fernando Rufino    Brazil   Igor Alex Tofalini    Brazil   Edward Clifton    Great Britain
←  2024

The men's VL2 200 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	15:48	Heats
Friday 22 August 2025	09:05	Semifinals
Saturday 23 August 2025	13:20	Final B
	15:06	Final A

Results

Heats

The fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final (QF). The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal (QS). ^{[2] [3]}

Heat 1

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fernando Rufino	Brazil	52.39	QF
2	Igor Korobeynikov	Individual Neutral Athletes	53.37	QF
3	Guan Nengwei	China	55.96	QF
4	Andrei Tkachuk	Individual Neutral Athletes	56.49	QS
5	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	56.57	QS
6	Róbert Suba	Hungary	1:14.98	QS
7	Xander Van der Poll	Great Britain	59.01	QS
8	Takanori Kato	Japan	1:03.74
9	On Youn-ho	South Korea	1:06.07

Heat 2

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	52.43	QF
2	Edward Clifton	Great Britain	52.98	QF
3	Roman Serebriakov	Individual Neutral Athletes	53.54	QF
4	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	53.98	QS
5	Andrii Kryvchun	Ukraine	54.92	QS
6	Marius-Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	56.27	QS
7	Miroslav Šperk	Czech Republic	56.82	QS
8	Amit Kumar	India	59.98	qS
	Steven Haxton	United States	DSQ

Semifinal

The fastest three boats advanced to the final ^[4]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	54.38	QF
2	Miroslav Šperk	Czech Republic	55.06	QF
3	Xander Van der Poll	Great Britain	55.61	QF
4	Andrii Kryvchun	Ukraine	55.73
5	Marius-Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	56.71
6	Andrei Tkachuk	Individual Neutral Athletes	56.93
7	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	57.30
8	Róbert Suba	Hungary	59.14
9	Amit Kumar	India	1:01.41

Final

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three. ^[5]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
	Fernando Rufino	Brazil	51.80
	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	51.84
	Edward Clifton	Great Britain	53.04
4	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	53.23
5	Igor Korobeynikov	Individual Neutral Athletes	53.74
6	Roman Serebriakov	Individual Neutral Athletes	53.92
7	Xander Van der Poll	Great Britain	55.22
8	Miroslav Šperk	Czech Republic	55.59
9	Guan Nengwei	China	57.52

References

1. "Timetable" (PDF). ICF. 19 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
2. "VL2 Men 200m - 1st Heat" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
3. "VL2 Men 200m - 2nd Heat" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 20 August 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
4. "VL2 Men 200m - Semifinal 1" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 22 August 2025. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
5. "VL2 Men 200m - Final A" (PDF). microplustimingservices.com. 23 August 2025. Retrieved 23 August 2025.