2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres

Men's K-2 500 metres at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	24–26 August
Competitors	38 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:30.666
Medalists
Artem Kuzakhmetov Vladislav Blintcov    Russia   Stefan Vekić Vladimir Torubarov    Serbia   Ričardas Nekriošius Andrej Olijnik    Lithuania
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2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canadian events
C-1 200m	men	women
C-1 500m	men	women
C-1 1000m	men
C-1 5000m	men	women
C-2 200m	men	women
C-2 500m	men	women
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 500m	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 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.^[1]

Schedule[]

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Thursday 24 August 2017	18:30	Heats
Saturday 26 August 2017	10:45	Semifinals
	12:39	Final A
	13:56	Final B

All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.^[3][4][5]

Heat 1[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ričardas Nekriošius Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:31.039	QA
2		Spain	1:33.086	QS
3	Riley Fitzsimmons Jordan Wood	Australia	1:33.842	QS
4	Lukáš Trefil	Czech Republic	1:34.516	QS
5	Yusuke Miyata	Japan	1:37.673	QS
6		Morocco	1:53.077	QS

Heat 2[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Artem Kuzakhmetov Vladislav Blintcov	Russia	1:30.844	QA
2	Stefan Vekić Vladimir Torubarov	Serbia	1:32.138	QS
3	Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai	Hungary	1:33.704	QS
4	Juan Ignacio Cáceres	Argentina	1:36.725	QS
5		Latvia	1:38.325	QS
6		South Africa	1:43.322	QS

Heat 3[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	Slovakia	1:30.997	QA
2	Cyrille Carré	France	1:32.360	QS
3	Saeid Fazloula	Germany	1:33.994	QS
4		Sweden	1:34.781	QS
5		Norway	1:35.011	QS
6		Ukraine	1:37.641	QS
7	David Fernandes	Portugal	1:40.304	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.^[6][7]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cyrille Carré	France	1:31.220	QA
2	Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai	Hungary	1:33.120	QA
3	Juan Ignacio Cáceres	Argentina	1:33.153	QA
4		Sweden	1:33.810	QB
5	Yusuke Miyata	Japan	1:35.720	QB
6	David Fernandes	Portugal	1:37.747	QB
7		South Africa	1:40.244	QB
8		Morocco	1:45.937	qB
9	Riley Fitzsimmons Jordan Wood	Australia	1:51.244

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Stefan Vekić Vladimir Torubarov	Serbia	1:32.114	QA
2		Spain	1:32.321	QA
3	Saeid Fazloula	Germany	1:32.627	QA
4	Lukáš Trefil	Czech Republic	1:32.974	QB
5		Norway	1:34.111	QB
6		Ukraine	1:38.764	QB
7		Latvia	1:47.145	QB

Finals[]

Final B[]

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.^[8]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
1	Lukáš Trefil	Czech Republic	1:34.717
2		Norway	1:35.193
3		Sweden	1:36.833
4	Yusuke Miyata	Japan	1:37.477
5	David Fernandes	Portugal	1:37.673
6		Ukraine	1:38.110
7		South Africa	1:42.070
8		Latvia	1:55.052
–		Morocco	DNS

Final A[]

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Artem Kuzakhmetov Vladislav Blintcov	Russia	1:30.666
	Stefan Vekić Vladimir Torubarov	Serbia	1:30.953
	Ričardas Nekriošius Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:31.449
4	Cyrille Carré	France	1:31.786
5	Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	Slovakia	1:31.886
6	Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai	Hungary	1:32.243
7		Spain	1:33.469
8	Saeid Fazloula	Germany	1:33.606
9	Juan Ignacio Cáceres	Argentina	1:38.626

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