2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Women's K-4 500 metres

The women's K-4 500 metres competition at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen took place on Lake Bagsværd.^[1]

Women's K-4 500 metres at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Lake Bagsværd
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	17–19 September
Competitors	64 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:32.55
Medalists
Marharyta Makhneva Nadzeya Liapeshka Volha Khudzenka Maryna Litvinchuk    Belarus   Danuta Kozák Tamara Csipes Anna Kárász Alida Dóra Gazsó    Hungary   Svetlana Chernigovskaya Elena Aniushina Kira Stepanova Anastasia Panchenko    International Olympic Committee
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Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Friday 17 September 2021	11:44	Heats
Saturday 18 September 2021	14:24	Semifinal
Sunday 19 September 2021	12:39	Final

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results

Heats

The fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final.
The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.^[3][4]

Heat 1

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Danuta Kozák Tamara Csipes Anna Kárász Alida Dóra Gazsó	Hungary	1:34.75	QF
2	Marharyta Makhneva Nadzeya Liapeshka Volha Khudzenka Maryna Litvinchuk	Belarus	1:35.31	QF
3	Diana Tanko Anastasiya Horlova Yuliia Yuriichuk Inna Hryshchun	Ukraine	1:37.07	QF
4	Claire Bren Vanina Paoletti Manon Hostens Léa Jamelot	France	1:39.79	QS
5	Zoe Clark Anoushka Freeman Florence Duffield Enya Dale	Great Britain	1:43.14	QS
6	Sara Ouzande Carolina García Laia Pelachs Begoña Lazkano	Spain	1:43.24	QS
7	Esti Olivier Bridgitte Hartley Zara Wood Michelle Burn	South Africa	1:45.59	QS
8	Soh Sze Ying Victoria Chiew Jia Saq Wern Chan	Singapore	1:49.36	qS
–	Yang Jiali Lin Huiqun Luo Lu Peng Yanjun	China	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dominika Putto Julia Olszewska Klaudia Cyrulewska Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk	Poland	1:36.32	QF
2	Svetlana Chernigovskaya Elena Aniushina Kira Stepanova Anastasia Panchenko	RCF	1:36.66	QF
3	Pernille Knudsen Julie Funch Sara Milthers Bolette Nyvang Iversen	Denmark	1:38.88	QF
4	Kateřina Zárubová Eliška Betlachová Barbora Betlachová Adela Házová	Czech Republic	1:39.24	QS
5	Maria Virik Kristine Amundsen Anna Sletsjøe Elise Erland	Norway	1:40.24	QS
6	Melina Andersson Alexandra Torudd Julia Lagerstam Rebecka Georgsdotter	Sweden	1:41.33	QS
7	Courtney Stott Michelle Russell Alanna Bray-Lougheed Madeline Schmidt	Canada	1:42.02	QS

Semifinal

The fastest three boats advanced to the final.^[5]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Claire Bren Vanina Paoletti Manon Hostens Léa Jamelot	France	1:35.90	QF
2	Maria Virik Kristine Amundsen Anna Sletsjøe Elise Erland	Norway	1:36.60	QF
3	Kateřina Zárubová Eliška Betlachová Barbora Betlachová Adela Házová	Czech Republic	1:37.83	QF
4	Courtney Stott Michelle Russell Alanna Bray-Lougheed Madeline Schmidt	Canada	1:37.85
5	Melina Andersson Alexandra Torudd Julia Lagerstam Rebecka Georgsdotter	Sweden	1:38.02
6	Sara Ouzande Carolina García Laia Pelachs Begoña Lazkano	Spain	1:39.22
7	Zoe Clark Anoushka Freeman Florence Duffield Enya Dale	Great Britain	1:40.62
8	Esti Olivier Bridgitte Hartley Zara Wood Michelle Burn	South Africa	1:42.87
9	Soh Sze Ying Victoria Chiew Jia Saq Wern Chan	Singapore	1:46.48

Final

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[6]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Marharyta Makhneva Nadzeya Liapeshka Volha Khudzenka Maryna Litvinchuk	Belarus	1:32.55
	Danuta Kozák Tamara Csipes Anna Kárász Alida Dóra Gazsó	Hungary	1:32.71
	Svetlana Chernigovskaya Elena Aniushina Kira Stepanova Anastasia Panchenko	RCF	1:35.30
4	Dominika Putto Julia Olszewska Klaudia Cyrulewska Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk	Poland	1:35.92
5	Diana Tanko Anastasiya Horlova Yuliia Yuriichuk Inna Hryshchun	Ukraine	1:36.16
6	Claire Bren Vanina Paoletti Manon Hostens Léa Jamelot	France	1:36.61
7	Pernille Knudsen Julie Funch Sara Milthers Bolette Nyvang Iversen	Denmark	1:38.56
8	Kateřina Zárubová Eliška Betlachová Barbora Betlachová Adela Házová	Czech Republic	1:39.06
9	Maria Virik Kristine Amundsen Anna Sletsjøe Elise Erland	Norway	1:39.32