Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 500 metres

The men's K-4 500 metres sprint canoeing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 6 and 8 August 2024 at the National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne.

Men's K-4 500 metres at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France, Vaires-sur-Marne
Dates	6 August 2024 (heats and quarterfinals) 8 August 2024 (semifinals & finals)
Medalists
Max Rendschmidt Jacob Schopf Tom Liebscher Max Lemke  Germany Riley Fitzsimmons Pierre van der Westhuyzen Jackson Collins Noah Havard  Australia Saúl Craviotto Carlos Arévalo Marcus Cooper Rodrigo Germade  Spain
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Background

This will be the second appearance of the event after it was introduced at the 2020 Olympics.

Qualification

Main article: Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Competition format

Schedule

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

The event will be held over two days, with two rounds per day.^[1]

Date	Time	Round
6 August 2024	9:30 13:10	Heats Quarterfinals
8 August 2024	11:50 13:50	Semifinals Finals

Results

Heats

Progression System: 1st-2nd to SF, rest to QF.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Country Time Notes 1 3  Serbia 1:20.99 SF 2 5  Hungary 1:21.18 SF 3 7  Lithuania 1:21.51 QF 4 6  Ukraine 1:21.55 QF 5 2  Canada 1:22.84 QF 6 4  Denmark 1:22.98 QF

Heat 2 Rank Lane Country Time Notes 1 5  Germany 1:20.51 OB, SF 2 4  Spain 1:20.60 SF 3 3  Australia 1:22.28 QF 4 7  New Zealand 1:23.26 QF 5 6  China 1:25.00 QF

Quarterfinal

Progression System: 1st-6th to SF, rest out

Rank	Lane	Country	Time	Notes
1	2	Australia	1:19.39	OB, SF
2	5	New Zealand	1:20.56	SF
3	3	Denmark	1:20.56	SF
4	7	Canada	1:20.65	SF
5	4	Ukraine	1:20.94	SF
6	6	Lithuania	1:21.09	SF
7	1	China	1:21.31

Semi Finals

Progression System: 1st-4th to Final, 5th eliminated.

Semi Final 1 Rank Lane Country Time Notes 1 3  Australia 1:19.22 OB, FA 2 5  Serbia 1:19.91 FA 3 4  Spain 1:19.98 FA 4 2  Ukraine 1:20.67 FA 5 6  Canada 1:20.70

Semi Final 2 Rank Lane Country Time Notes 1 5  Germany 1:20.57 FA 2 4  Hungary 1:21.07 FA 3 2  Lithuania 1:21.27 FA 4 3  New Zealand 1:21.73 FA 5 6  Denmark 1:21.88

Final

Rank	Lane	Country	Time	Notes
	4	Germany	1:19.80
	5	Australia	1:19.84
	7	Spain	1:20.05
4	1	Ukraine	1:21.01
5	2	Lithuania	1:21.13
6	3	Serbia	1:21.52
7	6	Hungary	1:21.99
8	8	New Zealand	1:22.19

Final Ranking

Rank	Crew	Nation
1	Max Rendschmidt - Jacob Schopf - Tom Liebscher - Max Lemke	Germany
2	Riley Fitzsimmons - Pierre van der Westhuyzen - Jackson Collins - Noah Havard	Australia
3	Saúl Craviotto - Carlos Arévalo - Marcus Cooper - Rodrigo Germade	Spain
4	Oleh Kukharyk - Dmytro Danylenko - Ihor Trunov - Ivan Semykin	Ukraine
5	Simonas Maldonis - Mindaugas Maldonis - Ignas Navakauskas - Artūras Seja	Lithuania
6	Andjelo Džombeta - Marko Novaković - Marko Dragosavljević - Vladimir Torubarov	Serbia
7	Bence Nádas - Kolos Csizmadia - István Kuli - Sándor Tótka	Hungary
8	Max Brown - Grant Clancy - Kurtis Imrie - Hamish Legarth	New Zealand
9	Nicholas Matveev - Pierre-Luc Poulin - Laurent Lavigne - Simon McTavish	Canada
10	Victor Gairy Aasmul - Lasse Bro Madsen - Morten Gravesen - Magnus Sibbersen	Denmark
11	Bu Tingkai - Wang Congkang - Zhang Dong - Dong Yi	China