Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 500 metres

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

These are the results of the men's K-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	Clint Robinson and Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)

Heats

The 19 teams first raced in three heats. The top finisher in each heat moved directly to the final, and all other teams advanced to the semifinals. No teams were eliminated in the heats. The heats were raced on August 24.

Heat 1
1.	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	1:28.866	QF
2.	Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz (HUN)	1:31.166	QS
3.	Damian Vindel and Francisco Llera (ESP)	1:32.846	QS
4.	Yordan Yordanov and Ivan Hristov (BUL)	1:33.222	QS
5.	Lasse Nielsen and Mads Kongsgaard Madsen (DEN)	1:33.938	QS
6.	Marian Baban and Stefan Vasile (ROU)	1:34.410	QS
7.	Aleksey Babadjanov and Sergey Borzov (UZB)	1:34.782	QS
Heat 2
1.	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)	1:28.925	QF
2.	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson (SWE)	1:29.717	QS
3.	Anatoli Tishchenko and Vladimir Grushikhin (RUS)	1:30.761	QS
4.	Clint Robinson and Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	1:30.869	QS
5.	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	1:33.565	QS
6.	Yin Yijun and Wang Lei (CHN)	1:37.061	QS
Heat 3
1.	Marek Twardowski and Adam Wysocki (POL)	1:29.069	QF
2.	Alvydas Duonėla and Egidijus Balčiūnas (LTU)	1:30.521	QS
3.	Ognjen Filipović and Dragan Zorić (SCG)	1:30.665	QS
4.	Bartosz Wolski and Rami Zur (USA)	1:31.893	QS
5.	Steven Jorens and Richard Dober (CAN)	1:31.985	QS
6.	Sebastian Cuattrin and Sebastian Szubski (BRA)	1:35.917	QS

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the two semifinal races qualified for the final. Fourth place and higher teams were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 26.

Semifinal 1
1.	Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz (HUN)	1:30.438	QF
2.	Anatoli Tishchenko and Vladimir Grushikhin (RUS)	1:31.786	QF
3.	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	1:31.830	QF
4.	Ognjen Filipović and Dragan Zorić (SCG)	1:32.150
5.	Yordan Yordanov and Ivan Hristov (BUL)	1:33.182
6.	Bartosz Wolski and Rami Zur (USA)	1:33.482
7.	Marian Baban and Stefan Vasile (ROU)	1:34.398
8.	Sebastian Cuattrin and Sebastian Szubski (BRA)	1:37.466
Semifinal 2
1.	Alvydas Duonėla and Egidijus Balčiūnas (LTU)	1:30.270	QF
2.	Clint Robinson and Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	1:30.710	QF
3.	Damian Vindel and Francisco Llera (ESP)	1:30.998	QF
4.	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson (SWE)	1:31.030
5.	Lasse Nielsen and Mads Kongsgaard Madsen (DEN)	1:33.482
6.	Aleksey Babadjanov and Sergey Borzov (UZB)	1:33.654
7.	Steven Jorens and Richard Dober (CAN)	1:34.318
8.	Yin Yijun and Wang Lei (CHN)	1:38.554

Final

The final was raced on August 28.

	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	1:27.040
	Clint Robinson and Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	1:27.920
	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)	1:27.996
4.	Marek Twardowski and Adam Wysocki (POL)	1:28.048
5.	Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz (HUN)	1:29.096
6.	Damian Vindel and Francisco Llera (ESP)	1:29.532
7.	Alvydas Duonėla and Egidijus Balčiūnas (LTU)	1:29.868
8.	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	1:30.804
9.	Anatoli Tishchenko and Vladimir Grushikhin (RUS)	1:31.048

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (English), (French), & (Greek)
• Sport-reference.com 2004 men's K-2 500 m results
• Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results