2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres explained

Event:	Men's K-2 500 metres
Championship:	2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Dates:	24–26 August
Venue:	Sportcentrum Račice
Location:	Račice, Czech Republic
Competitors:	44
Nations:	22
Win Value:	1:27.979
Gold:	Rodrigo Germade Marcus Walz
Gold Nation:	ESP
Silver:	Bence Nádas Sándor Tótka
Silver Nation:	HUN
Bronze:	Raman Piatrushenka Vitaliy Bialko
Bronze Nation:	BLR
Prev:	2015
Next:	2018

The men's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Račice took place at the Sportcentrum Račice.^[1]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Thursday 24 August 2017	11:02	Heats
	17:20	Semifinals
Saturday 26 August 2017	10:10	Final B
	style=background:lemonchiffon	11:41	style=background:lemonchiffon	Final A

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

Results

Heats

Heat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sébastien Jouve Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont		1:31.028
2	Maximilian Zaremba Kostja Stroinski		1:31.284
3	Simo Boltić Dragan Hančovski		1:35.401
4	René Holten Poulsen Nils Jensen Boe		1:38.101
5	Jayden Ellis Simon McTavish		1:38.367
6	Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Dergunov		1:40.828
7	Li Zhuang Yan Jiahao		1:47.334

Heat 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rodrigo Germade Marcus Walz		1:30.976
2	Erik Vlček Tibor Linka		1:33.593
3	Ezequiel Di Giacomo Gonzalo Carreras		1:33.682
4	Viliyan Buchvarov Hristo Rekov		1:34.587
5	Vitaliy Bialko Raman Piatrushenka		1:38.043
6	Maksim Bondar Igor Dorofeev		1:38.576
7	Maks Franceskin Vid Debeljak		1:43.643
8	Arambam Gyanjit Singh Albert Raj Selvaraj		1:46.432

Heat 3

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bence Nádas Sándor Tótka		1:30.343
2	Oleg Gusev Vladislav Blintcov		1:31.143
3	Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba		1:31.288
4	Kaspar Sula Kaarel Alupere		1:33.699
5	Dorian Kliczkowski Norbert Kuczyński		1:35.193
6	David Kopp Jhonny Blixt		1:35.982
7	Maizir Riyondra Tri Wahyu Buwono		1:38.955

Semifinals

Qualification was as follows:

The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final.
The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba		1:30.454
2	René Holten Poulsen Nils Jensen Boe		1:30.476
3	Vitaliy Bialko Raman Piatrushenka		1:31.493
4	Ezequiel Di Giacomo Gonzalo Carreras		1:31.531
5	Maximilian Zaremba Kostja Stroinski		1:33.165
6	Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Dergunov		1:33.193
7	David Kopp Jhonny Blixt		1:34.126
8	Kaspar Sula Kaarel Alupere		1:34.304
9	Maks Franceskin Vid Debeljak		2:00.798

Semifinal 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Erik Vlček Tibor Linka		1:30.305
2	Oleg Gusev Vladislav Blintcov		1:31.399
3	Jayden Ellis Simon McTavish		1:32.633
4	Viliyan Buchvarov Hristo Rekov		1:32.821
5	Dorian Kliczkowski Norbert Kuczyński		1:32.977
6	Simo Boltić Dragan Hančovski		1:35.371
7	Maizir Riyondra Tri Wahyu Buwono		1:36.405
8	Maksim Bondar Igor Dorofeev		1:37.894
9	Li Zhuang Yan Jiahao		1:45.827

Finals

Final B

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.^[5]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
1	Ezequiel Di Giacomo Gonzalo Carreras		1:30.061
2	Maximilian Zaremba Kostja Stroinski		1:30.322
3	Viliyan Buchvarov Hristo Rekov		1:30.377
4	Kaspar Sula Kaarel Alupere		1:30.900
5	Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Dergunov		1:31.150
6	David Kopp Jhonny Blixt		1:31.533
7	Dorian Kliczkowski Norbert Kuczyński		1:31.750
8	Simo Boltić Dragan Hančovski		1:32.833
9	Maizir Riyondra Tri Wahyu Buwono		1:40.300

Final A

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Rodrigo Germade Marcus Walz		1:27.979
	Bence Nádas Sándor Tótka		1:29.107
	Vitaliy Bialko Raman Piatrushenka		1:29.518
4	Erik Vlček Tibor Linka		1:29.868
5	Sébastien Jouve Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont		1:29.963
6	Oleg Gusev Vladislav Blintcov		1:30.191
7	Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba		1:30.563
8	René Holten Poulsen Nils Jensen Boe		1:31.213
9	Jayden Ellis Simon McTavish		1:33.841

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2017 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Regatta Venue. Czech Canoe Union. 18 June 2018.
2. Web site: 2017 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS . . 18 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171007105551/http://sdp.digicorp.hu/competition/16777218/races . 7 October 2017 . dead .
3. Book: 2017 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS K2 Men 500m - Heats. International Canoe Federation. 57–59. 18 June 2018.
4. Book: 2017 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS K2 Men 500m - Semi-finals. International Canoe Federation. 89–90. 18 June 2018.
5. Book: 2017 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS K2 Men 500m - Final B. International Canoe Federation. 153. 18 June 2018.
6. Book: 2017 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS K2 Men 500m - Final A. International Canoe Federation. 162. 18 June 2018.