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

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The men's C-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The C-2 event is raced in two-man sprint canoes. This would be the last time the event would take place at the 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]

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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 China Standard Time (UTC+8)

DateTimeRound
Tuesday, August 19, 200817:30-17:50 Heats
Thursday, August 21, 200816:50-17:00 Semifinal
Saturday, August 23, 200817:05-17:20 Final

Medalists

Gold medal with cup.svg Gold Silver medal with cup.svg Silver Bronze medal with cup.svg Bronze
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Meng Guanliang
and Yang Wenjun  (CHN)
Flag of Russia.svg  Alexander Kostoglod
and Sergey Ulegin  (RUS)
Flag of Germany.svg  Christian Gille
and Tomasz Wylenzek  (GER)

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1 Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:41.218 QF
2 Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:41.241 QF
3 Daniel Jędraszko, Roman Rynkiewicz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:42.309 QF
4 Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:42.803 QS
5 Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 1:43.428 QS
6 Mátyás Sáfrán, Mihály Zoltán Sáfrán Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:43.642 QS
7 Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 1:44.155 QS
8 Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:54.090 QS

Heat 2

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1 Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:41.513 QF
2 Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:41.767 QF
3 Sergiy Bezuglyy, Maksym Prokopenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:42.054 QF
4 Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:42.306 QS
5 Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:43.189 QS
6 Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba Flag of France.svg  France 1:43.453 QS
7 Kaisar Nurmaganbetov, Aleksey Dyadchuk Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1:45.730 QS

Semifinal

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

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1 Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:42.545 QF
2 Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 1:42.891 QF
3 Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:42.921 QF
4 Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:43.299
5 Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 1:43.673
6 Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba Flag of France.svg  France 1:43.874
7 Kaisar Nurmaganbetov, Aleksey Dyadchuk Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1:44.992
8 Mátyás Sáfrán, Mihály Zoltán Sáfrán Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:45.032
9 Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:48.853

Final

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:41.025
Silver medal icon.svg Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:41.282
Bronze medal icon.svg Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:41.964
4 Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:41.996
5 Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:42.450
6 Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:43.195
7 Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 1:43.971
8 Sergiy Bezuglyy, Maksym Prokopenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:44.157
9 Daniel Jędraszko, Roman Rynkiewicz Flag of Poland.svg  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.

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