Canoeing 2020/Men's sprint K4 500 metre

Men's sprint K4 500 metre
General information
Sport	Canoeing 2020
Date	6-7 August 2021
Competitors	11 teams
Venue	Sea Forest Waterway
Medalists
	Germany
	Spain
	Slovakia

The men's sprint k4 500 metre of Canoeing 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 6-7 August 2021 in the Sea Forest Waterway. With 11 teams competing, the event was won by the team from Germany, with Spain taking the silver medal and Slovakia taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to eight boats. In each round, the top few with the fastest time advance to the next round, together with a number of fastest non-qualifiers. The fastest team in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Eleven teams qualified for the event with Germany as the overwhelming favorite for the title, having won every world championships since 2017, though they were recently beaten by Spain at the most recent World Cup. Australia was the reigning junior and under 23 world champion, with other potential medal contenders being European silver medalists Slovakia, bronze medalist of the 2018 world championships Hungary, and Portugal.

Summary

Heats

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany	1:21.890	Q
2	Australia	1:22.662	Q
3	Belarus	1:22.896
4	China	1:24.264
5	Portugal	1:25.515
6	Japan	1:32.295

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Spain	1:21.658	Q
2	Slovakia	1:21.807	Q
3	Canada	1:26.824
4	ROC	1:30.763
5	Hungary	1:34.274

Quarterfinal

Quarterfinal Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Hungary	1:23.727	Q
2	Belarus	1:23.848	Q
3	China	1:24.036	Q
4	Portugal	1:24.325	Q
5	Canada	1:24.979	Q
6	ROC	1:25.564	Q
7	Japan	1:28.211

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany	1:23.049	Q
2	Slovakia	1:23.799	Q
3	Belarus	1:24.206	Q
4	ROC	1:24.340	Q
5	China	1:24.653

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Spain	1:24.355	Q
2	Australia	1:24.868	Q
3	Hungary	1:24.918	Q
4	Portugal	1:25.268	Q
5	Canada	1:25.581

Final

Final Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany	1:22.219
2	Spain	1:22.445
3	Slovakia	1:23.534
4	ROC	1:23.654
5	Belarus	1:24.510
6	Australia	1:25.025
7	Hungary	1:25.068
8	Portugal	1:25.324

Results

Result	Nation
	Germany
	Spain
	Slovakia
4	ROC
5	Belarus
6	Australia
7	Hungary
8	Portugal
9	China
10	Canada
11	Japan