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

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The men's K-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-2 event is raced in two-person kayaks. 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 three finishers in each of the two heats advances directly to the final, while the nine fastest times in both heats move on to the semifinals. The top three finishers in the semifinal join the heats winners in the final.

Heats took place on August 19, semifinals took place on August 21, and finals on August 23.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

DateTimeRound
Tuesday, August 19, 200817:10-17:30 Heats
Thursday, August 21, 200816:40-16:50 Semifinal
Saturday, August 23, 200816:35-16:50 Final

Medalists

Gold medal with cup.svg Gold Silver medal with cup.svg Silver Bronze medal with cup.svg Bronze
Flag of Spain.svg  Saúl Craviotto
and Carlos Pérez  (ESP)
Flag of Germany.svg  Ronald Rauhe
and Tim Wieskötter  (GER)
Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Raman Piatrushenka
and Vadzim Makhneu  (BLR)

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1 Ronald Rauhe, Tim Wieskötter Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:28.736 QF
2 Vincent Lecrubier, Sébastien Jouve Flag of France.svg  France 1:29.805 QF
3 Andrea Facchin, Antonio Massimiliano Scaduto Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:30.240 QF
4 Krists Straume, Kristaps Zalupe Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:31.020 QS
5 Alvydas Duonėla, Egidijus Balčiūnas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:31.232 QS
6 Clint Robinson, Jacob Clear Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:31.712 QS
7 Alexey Dergunov, Dmitriy Kaltenberger Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1:33.363 QS
8 Shen Jie, Huang Zhipeng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:34.432

Heat 2

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1 Raman Piatrushenka, Vadzim Makhneu Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:28.661 QF
2 Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Perez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:28.983 QF
3 Zoltán Kammerer, Gábor Kucsera Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:30.099 QF
4 Richard Dober, Jr., Andrew Willows Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:30.234 QS
5 Kim Wraae Knudsen, René Holten Poulsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1:30.348 QS
6 Marek Twardowski, Adam Wysocki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:32.107 QS
7 Mika Hokajärvi, Kalle Mikkonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:33.785 QS
8 José Giovanni Ramos, Gabriel Rodríguez Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 1:34.220 QS

Semifinal

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

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1 Richard Dober, Jr., Andrew Willows Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:31.232 QF
2 Marek Twardowski, Adam Wysocki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:31.481 QF
3 Kim Wraae Knudsen, René Holten Poulsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1:31.796 QF
4 Krists Straume, Kristaps Zaļupe Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:32.649
5 Alvydas Duonėla, Egidijus Balčiūnas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:32.887
6 Alexey Dergunov, Dmitriy Kaltenberger Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1:33.512
7 Clint Robinson, Jacob Clear Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:33.839
8 Mika Hokajärvi, Kalle Mikkonen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:34.994
9 José Giovanni Ramos, Gabriel Rodríguez Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 1:37.285

Final

RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Perez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:28.736
Silver medal icon.svg Ronald Rauhe, Tim Wieskötter Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:28.827
Bronze medal icon.svg Raman Piatrushenka, Vadzim Makhneu Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:30.005
4 Zoltán Kammerer, Gábor Kucsera Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:30.285
5 Kim Wraae Knudsen, René Holten Poulsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1:30.569
6 Richard Dober, Jr., Andrew Willows Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:30.857
7 Vincent Lecrubier, Sébastien Jouve Flag of France.svg  France 1:31.312
8 Marek Twardowski, Adam Wysocki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:31.869
9 Andrea Facchin, Antonio Massimiliano Scaduto Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:31.934

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