Canoeing 2024/Men's sprint K2 500 metre

Men's sprint K2 500 metre
General information
Sport	Canoeing 2024
Date	7–9 August 2024
Competitors	20 pairs
Venue	Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium
Conditions
Length	500 metres
Medalists
	Max Lemke Jacob Schopf
	Bence Nadas Sandor Totka
	Thomas Green Jean van der Westhuyzen

The men's sprint k2 500 metre of Canoeing 2024 during the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 7–9 August 2024 in the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. With 20 pairs competing, the event was won by Max Lemke and Jacob Schopf from Germany, with Bence Nadas and Sandor Totka from Hungary taking the silver medal and Thomas Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen from Australia taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of four 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

Twenty pairs qualified for the event with the boats from Hungary and Portugal as the favorites for the title.

Team	Athlete
Australia	Thomas Green
	Jean van der Westhuyzen
Canada	Simon McTavish
	Pierre-Luc Poulin
China	Bu Tingkai
	Zhang Dong
Czech Republic	Daniel Havel
	Jakub Spicar
Germany 1	Max Lemke
	Jacob Schopf
Germany 2	Tom Liebscher-Lucz
	Max Rendschmidt
Hungary 1	Balint Kopasz
	Adam Varga
Hungary 2	Bence Nadas
	Sandor Totka
Kazakhstan	Bekarys Ramatulla
	Sergii Tokarnytskyi
Lithuania	Mindaugas Maldonis
	Andrej Olijnik
New Zealand	Kurtis Imrie
	Hamish Legarth
Poland	Przemyslaw Korsak
	Jakub Stepun
Portugal	Messias Baptista
	Joao Ribeiro
Serbia 1	Marko Dragosavljevic
	Marko Novakovic
Serbia 2	Andjelo Dzombeta
	Vladimir Torubarov
South Africa	Andrew James Birkett
	Hamish Lovemore
Spain 1	Carlos Arevalo
	Rodrigo Germade
Spain 2	Marcus Cooper
	Adrian del Rio
Ukraine	Oleh Kukharyk
	Ihor Trunov
United States	Jonas Ecker
	Aaron Small

Summary

Heats

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany 1	1:28.03	SF
2	Portugal	1:28.10	SF
3	Spain 2	1:35.26	QF
4	China	1:36.79	QF
5	New Zealand	1:41.18	QF

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany 2	1:28.39	SF
2	Hungary 2	1:29.08	SF
3	Ukraine	1:31.24	QF
4	Lithuania	1:31.27	QF
5	United States	1:32.01	QF

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Poland	1:28.84	SF
2	Spain 1	1:28.85	SF
3	Canada	1:28.91	QF
4	Serbia 1	1:30.71	QF
5	Kazakhstan	1:38.62	QF

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Australia	1:28.59	SF
2	Hungary 2	1:29.37	SF
3	Czech Republic	1:29.73	QF
4	South Africa	1:33.25	QF
5	Serbia 2	1:34.22	QF

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Spain 2	1:29.12	Q
2	South Africa	1:29.75	Q
3	Canada	1:30.01	Q
4	New Zealand	1:30.29	Q
5	Lithuania	1:30.30
6	Kazakhstan	1:37.58

Quarterfinal 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Czech Republic	1:28.36	Q
2	Serbia 2	1:28.57	Q
3	United States	1:28.93	Q
4	Serbia 1	1:29.46	Q
5	China	1:29.58
6	Ukraine	1:29.68

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany 1	1:28.13	Q
2	Hungary 2	1:28.38	Q
3	Czech Republic	1:28.71	Q
4	United States	1:29.51	Q
5	Hungary 1	1:29.66
6	South Africa	1:29.70
7	New Zealand	1:30.26
8	Poland	1:30.95

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Australia	1:26.85	Q
2	Spain 2	1:27.24	Q
3	Portugal	1:27.64	Q
4	Germany 2	1:27.67	Q
5	Spain 1	1:28.49
6	Canada	1:29.01
7	Serbia 1	1:30.20
8	Serbia 2	1:34.65

Finals

A Final Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Germany 1	1:26.87
2	Hungary 2	1:27.15
3	Australia	1:27.29
4	Spain 2	1:27.38
5	Germany 2	1:27.54
6	France	1:27.82
7	Czech Republic	1:29.29
8	United States	1:30.02

B Final Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Spain 1	1:30.08
2	Canada	1:30.80
3	Serbia 1	1:31.50
4	South Africa	1:31.79
5	Poland	1:32.05
6	New Zealand	1:32.09
7	Hungary 1	1:32.85
8	Serbia 2	1:35.00

Results

Result	Team
	Germany 1
	Hungary 2
	Australia
4	Spain 2
5	Germany 2
6	France
7	Czech Republic
8	United States
9	Spain 1
10	Canada
11	Serbia 1
12	South Africa
13	Poland
14	New Zealand
15	Hungary 1
16	Serbia 2
17	China
18	Ukraine
19	Lithuania
20	Kazakhstan