2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-4 500 metres

Men's K-4 500 metres at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	25–26 August
Competitors	88 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:20.056
Medalists
Max Rendschmidt Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe Max Lemke    Germany   Saúl Craviotto Marcus Walz Cristian Toro Rodrigo Germade    Spain   Sándor Tótka Péter Molnár Miklós Dudás István Kuli    Hungary
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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-4 500 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
Saturday 25 August 2018	16:05	Heats
	17:42	Semifinals
Sunday 26 August 2018	13:25	Final A
	13:38	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	Max Rendschmidt Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe Max Lemke	Germany	1:23.513	QA
2	Rafał Rosolski	Poland	1:25.170	QS
3	Roberts Akmens	Latvia	1:25.180	QS
4	Guillaume Burger Étienne Hubert	France	1:25.833	QS
5	Dejan Pajić Simo Boltić Ervin Holpert Strahinja Stefanović	Serbia	1:26.583	QS
6	David Rodrigues	South Africa	1:26.590	QS
7	Dmytro Danylenko Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:27.650	QS
8		Bulgaria	1:29.950

Heat 2[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Saúl Craviotto Marcus Walz Cristian Toro Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:21.314	QA
2	Emanuel Silva Messias Baptista João Ribeiro David Varela	Portugal	1:23.811	QS
3	Riley Fitzsimmons Thomas Green Murray Stewart Jordan Wood	Australia	1:25.048	QS
4	Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:25.244	QS
5	Nicola Ripamonti	Italy	1:25.248	QS
6	Dzmitry Tratsiakou Raman Piatrushenka Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:25.491	QS
7		Romania	1:26.278	QS

Heat 3[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sándor Tótka Péter Molnár Miklós Dudás István Kuli	Hungary	1:23.554	QA
2	Yury Postrigay Oleg Gusev Vasily Pogreban	Russia	1:25.461	QS
3	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Mindaugas Maldonis	Lithuania	1:25.598	QS
4	Pablo de Torres Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:25.641	QS
5	Josef Dostál Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:25.851	QS
6	Ryan Cochrane Nicholas Matveev Pierre-Luc Poulin	Canada	1:26.141	QS
7	Jon Schofield Liam Heath	Great Britain	1:37.138	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	Yury Postrigay Oleg Gusev Vasily Pogreban	Russia	1:21.653	QA
2	Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:22.286	QA
3	Riley Fitzsimmons Thomas Green Murray Stewart Jordan Wood	Australia	1:22.523	QA
4	Dejan Pajić Simo Boltić Ervin Holpert Strahinja Stefanović	Serbia	1:22.973	QB
5	Dzmitry Tratsiakou Raman Piatrushenka Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:23.189	QB
6	Pablo de Torres Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:23.349	QB
7	Jon Schofield Liam Heath	Great Britain	1:24.076	QB
8	Roberts Akmens	Latvia	1:24.856	qB
9	David Rodrigues	South Africa	1:28.226

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Josef Dostál Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:21.668	QA
2	Emanuel Silva Messias Baptista João Ribeiro David Varela	Portugal	1:21.741	QA
3	Guillaume Burger Étienne Hubert	France	1:22.135	QA
4		Romania	1:23.058	QB
5	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Mindaugas Maldonis	Lithuania	1:23.081	QB
6	Rafał Rosolski	Poland	1:24.361	QB
7	Nicola Ripamonti	Italy	1:24.515	QB
8	Dmytro Danylenko Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:26.421
9	Ryan Cochrane Nicholas Matveev Pierre-Luc Poulin	Canada	1:27.888

Finals[]

Final B[]

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
1	Dzmitry Tratsiakou Raman Piatrushenka Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:22.752
2	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Mindaugas Maldonis	Lithuania	1:24.232
3		Romania	1:24.452
4	Jon Schofield Liam Heath	Great Britain	1:24.939
	Roberts Akmens	Latvia
6	Rafał Rosolski	Poland	1:25.382
7	Dejan Pajić Simo Boltić Ervin Holpert Strahinja Stefanović	Serbia	1:26.519
8	Pablo de Torres Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:26.846
9	Nicola Ripamonti	Italy	1:28.573

Final A[]

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Max Rendschmidt Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe Max Lemke	Germany	1:20.056
	Saúl Craviotto Marcus Walz Cristian Toro Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:20.423
	Sándor Tótka Péter Molnár Miklós Dudás István Kuli	Hungary	1:21.480
4	Riley Fitzsimmons Thomas Green Murray Stewart Jordan Wood	Australia	1:21.780
5	Yury Postrigay Oleg Gusev Vasily Pogreban	Russia	1:22.006
6	Guillaume Burger Étienne Hubert	France	1:22.530
7	Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:22.596
8	Josef Dostál Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:23.050
9	Emanuel Silva Messias Baptista João Ribeiro David Varela	Portugal	1:23.990

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