2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres

The men's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg took place in Sportpark Duisburg.^[1]

Men's K-2 500 metres at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Sportpark Duisburg
Location	Duisburg, Germany
Dates	24-27 August
Competitors	90 from 45 nations
Winning time	1:29.037
Medalists
Joao Ribeiro Messias Baptista    Portugal   Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz    Hungary   Adrián del Río Rodrigo Germade    Spain
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Schedule

The schedule is as follows:

Date	Time	Round
Thursday 24 August 2023	09:37	Heats
Saturday 26 August 2023	15:26	Semifinals
Sunday 27 August 2023	10:22	Final C
	10:28	Final B
	11:50	Final A

Results

Heats

The four fastest boats in each heat and three fastest 5th ranked boats advanced directly to the semi finals.
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Heat 1

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Adrián del Río Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:30.320	QS
2	Felix Frank Martin Hiller	Germany	1:30.364	QS
3	Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	Czech Republic	1:31.569	QS
4	Gunnar Nydal Eide Nicolai Nierenberg Lønning	Norway	1:33.267	QS
5	Etienne Hubert Francis Mouget	France	1:34.219	QS
6	Nitin Verma Vishnu Reghunath	India	1:42.555
7	Abdelmajid Jabbour Achraf Elaidi	Morocco	1:46.008
	Cristian Canache Ray Acuna	Venezuela	DNS
	Amosse Daimane Joaquim Manhique	Mozambique	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:30.411	QS
2	Cho Gwang-hee Jang Sang-won	South Korea	1:30.762	QS
3	Aldis Artūrs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:30.931	QS
4	Joakim Lindberg Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:31.468	QS
5	Angel Stoyanov Veselin Valchov	Bulgaria	1:33.713	QS
6	Robert Benitez Yan Same	Cuba	1:35.562
7	Igor Ryashentsev Sergii Tokarnytskyi	Kazakhstan	1:35.685
8	Irwan Irwan Indra Hidayat	Indonesia	1:40.594

Heat 3

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ervin Holpert Marko Dragosavljević	Serbia	1:29.292	QS
2	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:29.588	QS
3	Vagner Junior Souta Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva	Brazil	1:32.543	QS
4	Erik Vlček Adam Botek	Slovakia	1:33.029	QS
5	Benjamin Cabrera Matthew Collinge	Great Britain	1:35.136
6	Ahmed Elbedwihy Ahmed Mohamed	Egypt	1:43.562
7	So Pak Yin Cheung Cheuk Ho	Hong Kong	1:44.209
8	Jairo Domingos Simao Camazaulo	Angola	1:45.265

Heat 4

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green	Australia	1:29.238	QS
2	Simon Schuldt-Jensen Morten Graversen	Denmark	1:29.892	QS
3	Jakub Stepun Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:30.298	QS
4	Aaron Small Jonas Ecker	United States	1:30.949	QS
5	Erlan Sultangaziev Rysbek Tolomushev	Kyrgyzstan	1:33.346	QS
6	Wael Jabbar Qays Ahmed	Iraq	1:35.354
7	Luis López Ruben Londoño	Colombia	1:38.746

Heat 5

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Pierre-Luc Poulin Simon McTavish	Canada	1:30.726	QS
2	Joao Ribeiro Messias Baptista	Portugal	1:30.781	QS
3	Oleksandr Syromiatnykov Oleksandr Zaitsev	Ukraine	1:31.185	QS
4	Eetu Kolehmainen Jeremy Hakala	Finland	1:32.612	QS
5	Lin Yong-bo Lin Yung-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:34.394
6	Kevin Poljans Alexander Pekhenko	Estonia	1:38.060
7	Eddy Barranco Rodrigo González	Puerto Rico	1:52.828

Heat 6

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:30.662	QS
2	Francesco Lanciotti Giovanni Penato	Italy	1:31.204	QS
3	Chen Jintao Wang Chi	China	1:32.286	QS
4	Matevž Manfreda Anze Pikon	Slovenia	1:33.465	QS
5	Nicholas Weeks Henry van der Walt	South Africa	1:35.311
6	Praison Buasamrong Methasit Sitthipharat	Thailand	1:37.354
7	Ayoub Haidra Ryad Bentouati	Algeria	1:47.644
8	Edgar Tutyan Artur Akishin	Armenia	1:49.883

Semifinals

The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final.
The next three fastest boats in each semifinal boats advanced to the B final.
Rest boats advanced to the C final.^[8][9][10]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:28.350	QA
2	Adrián del Río Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:28.434	QA
3	Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green	Australia	1:28.449	QA
4	Aldis Artūrs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:29.018	QB
5	Aaron Small Jonas Ecker	United States	1:30.494	QB
6	Francesco Lanciotti Giovanni Penato	Italy	1:31.010	QB
7	Gunnar Nydal Eide Nicolai Nierenberg Lønning	Norway	1:32.258	QC
8	Oleksandr Syromiatnykov Oleksandr Zaitsev	Ukraine	1:33.530	QC
9	Erlan Sultangaziev Rysbek Tolomushev	Kyrgyzstan	1:34.065	QC

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Felix Frank Martin Hiller	Germany	1:29.463	QA
2	Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:29.651	QA
3	Pierre-Luc Poulin Simon McTavish	Canada	1:30.734	QA
4	Joakim Lindberg Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:30.902	QB
5	Eetu Kolehmainen Jeremy Hakala	Finland	1:31.722	QB
6	Vagner Junior Souta Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva	Brazil	1:32.725	QB
7	Angel Stoyanov Veselin Valchov	Bulgaria	1:33.265	QC
8	Chen Jintao Wang Chi	China	1:33.932	QC
9	Simon Schuldt-Jensen Morten Graversen	Denmark	1:35.851	QC

Semifinal 3

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Joao Ribeiro Messias Baptista	Portugal	1:29.148	QA
2	Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	Czech Republic	1:29.210	QA
3	Ervin Holpert Marko Dragosavljević	Serbia	1:29.378	QA
4	Erik Vlček Adam Botek	Slovakia	1:29.483	QB
5	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:29.784	QB
6	Cho Gwang-hee Jang Sang-won	South Korea	1:29.820	QB
7	Matevž Manfreda Anze Pikon	Slovenia	1:30.690	QC
8	Etienne Hubert Francis Mouget	France	1:32.063	QC
9	Jakub Stepun Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:33.900	QC

Finals

Final C

Competitors in this final raced for positions 19 to 27.^[11]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jakub Stepun Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:31.077
2	Etienne Hubert Francis Mouget	France	1:31.597
3	Simon Schuldt-Jensen Morten Graversen	Denmark	1:31.884
4	Gunnar Nydal Eide Nicolai Nierenberg Lønning	Norway	1:32.455
5	Matevž Manfreda Anze Pikon	Slovenia	1:32.887
6	Oleksandr Syromiatnykov Oleksandr Zaitsev	Ukraine	1:32.942
7	Chen Jintao Wang Chi	China	1:32.953
8	Erlan Sultangaziev Rysbek Tolomushev	Kyrgyzstan	1:33.892
9	Angel Stoyanov Veselin Valchov	Bulgaria	1:34.499

Final B

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.^[12]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Aldis Artūrs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:29.237
2	Erik Vlček Adam Botek	Slovakia	1:29.453
3	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:30.676
4	Joakim Lindberg Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:30.883
5	Francesco Lanciotti Giovanni Penato	Italy	1:31.136
6	Aaron Small Jonas Ecker	United States	1:32.067
7	Eetu Kolehmainen Jeremy Hakala	Finland	1:32.067
8	Vagner Junior Souta Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva	Brazil	1:32.461
	Cho Gwang-hee Jang Sang-won	South Korea	DNS

Final A

Competitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[13]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
	Joao Ribeiro Messias Baptista	Portugal	1:29.037
	Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:29.184
	Adrián del Río Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:29.389
4	Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green	Australia	1:29.465
5	Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	Czech Republic	1:29.842
6	Felix Frank Martin Hiller	Germany	1:29.860
7	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:29.874
8	Ervin Holpert Marko Dragosavljević	Serbia	1:29.937
9	Pierre-Luc Poulin Simon McTavish	Canada	1:30.511