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

Men's K-2 500 metres at the 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Sportcentrum Račice
Location	Račice, Czech Republic
Dates	24–26 August
Competitors	44 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:27.979
Medalists
Rodrigo Germade Marcus Walz    Spain   Bence Nádas Sándor Tótka    Hungary   Raman Piatrushenka    Belarus
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2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canadian events
C-1 200m	men	women
C-1 500m	men
C-1 1000m	men
C-1 5000m	men
C-2 200m	men
C-2 500m	men	women
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 1000m	men
Kayak events
K-1 200m	men	women
K-1 500m	men	women
K-1 1000m	men	women
K-1 5000m	men	women
K-2 200m	men	women
K-2 500m	men	women
K-2 1000m	men	women
K-4 500m	men	women
K-4 1000m	men
Paracanoe events
KL1	men	women
KL2	men	women
KL3	men	women
VL1	men	women
VL2	men	women
VL3	men	women
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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
	11:41	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	France	1:31.028	QA
2		Germany	1:31.284	QS
3	Simo Boltić	Serbia	1:35.401	QS
4	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	1:38.101	QS
5		Australia	1:38.367	QS
6	Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Dergunov	Kazakhstan	1:40.828	QS
7		China	1:47.334	QS

Heat 2[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rodrigo Germade Marcus Walz	Spain	1:30.976	QA
2	Erik Vlček Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:33.593	QS
3	Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:33.682	QS
4		Bulgaria	1:34.587	QS
5	Raman Piatrushenka	Belarus	1:38.043	QS
6		Kyrgyzstan	1:38.576	QS
7	Vid Debeljak	Slovenia	1:43.643	QS
8		India	1:46.432

Heat 3[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bence Nádas Sándor Tótka	Hungary	1:30.343	QA
2	Oleg Gusev Vladislav Blintcov	Russia	1:31.143	QS
3	Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:31.288	QS
4		Estonia	1:33.699	QS
5		Poland	1:35.193	QS
6		Sweden	1:35.982	QS
7		Indonesia	1:38.955	QS

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	Czech Republic	1:30.454	QA
2	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	1:30.476	QA
3	Raman Piatrushenka	Belarus	1:31.493	QA
4	Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:31.531	QB
5		Germany	1:33.165	QB
6	Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Dergunov	Kazakhstan	1:33.193	QB
7		Sweden	1:34.126	QB
8		Estonia	1:34.304	qB
9	Vid Debeljak	Slovenia	2:00.798

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Erik Vlček Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:30.305	QA
2	Oleg Gusev Vladislav Blintcov	Russia	1:31.399	QA
3	Simon McTavish	Australia	1:32.633	QA
4		Bulgaria	1:32.821	QB
5		Poland	1:32.977	QB
6	Simo Boltić	Serbia	1:35.371	QB
7		Indonesia	1:36.405	QB
8		Kyrgyzstan	1:37.894
9		China	1:45.827

Finals[]

Final B[]

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
1	Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:30.061
2		Germany	1:30.322
3		Bulgaria	1:30.377
4		Estonia	1:30.900
5	Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Dergunov	Kazakhstan	1:31.150
6		Sweden	1:31.533
7		Poland	1:31.750
8	Simo Boltić	Serbia	1:32.833
9		Indonesia	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	Spain	1:27.979
	Bence Nádas Sándor Tótka	Hungary	1:29.107
	Raman Piatrushenka	Belarus	1:29.518
4	Erik Vlček Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:29.868
5	Sébastien Jouve	France	1:29.963
6	Oleg Gusev Vladislav Blintcov	Russia	1:30.191
7	Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:30.563
8	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	1:31.213
9	Simon McTavish	Australia	1:33.841

References[]