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


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

Medalists

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

Heat 2

Semifinal

Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out
RankAthletesCountryTimeNotes
1Iosif Chirila, Andrei Cuculici1:42.545 QF
2Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev1:42.891QF
3Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sevigny1:42.921QF
4Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis1:43.299
5Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar1:43.673
6Bertrand Hemonic, William Tchamba1:43.874
7Kaisar Nurmaganbetov, Aleksey Dyadchuk1:44.992
8Matyas Safran, Mihaly Zoltan Safran1:45.032
9Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo1:48.853

Final

The Chinese duo repeated their gold from 2004 and had to be fished out of the water after when Meng Guanliang dived into the water right when crossing the finish line, causing the canoe to capsize.