2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's KL2

Men's KL2 at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	22–24 August
Competitors	24 from 20 nations
Winning time	41.735
Medalists
Curtis McGrath    Australia   Scott Martlew    New Zealand   Mykola Syniuk    Ukraine
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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 KL2 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
Wednesday 22 August 2018	11:10	Heats
	12:35	Semifinals
Friday 24 August 2018	10:15	Final B
	10:21	Final A

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	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Curtis McGrath	Australia	43.196	QA
2		Germany	48.187	QS
3		Kazakhstan	48.912	QS
4		Poland	50.727	QS
5		Argentina	51.057	QS
6		China	53.517	QS
7		Japan	1:00.562	QS
–		Belarus	DNS

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Scott Martlew	New Zealand	44.062	QA
2	Fernando Rufino de Paulo	Brazil	44.422	QS
3	Nick Beighton	Great Britain	44.752	QS
4	Federico Mancarella	Italy	45.592	QS
5	Markus Swoboda	Austria	45.882	QS
6		Great Britain	48.643	QS
7		Portugal	51.003	QS
8		Israel	53.788

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mykola Syniuk	Ukraine	44.439	QA
2		Serbia	47.469	QS
3		Ukraine	48.329	QS
4	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	49.169	QS
5		Hungary	50.304	QS
6		Russia	52.234	QS
7		Spain	52.499	QS
8		Spain	55.105

Semifinals[]

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	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Federico Mancarella	Italy	44.470	QA
2	Nick Beighton	Great Britain	44.590	QA
3		Serbia	47.555	QA
4		Great Britain	47.820	QB
5	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	48.815	QB
6		Kazakhstan	48.955	QB
7		China	51.835	QB
8		Argentina	52.581
9		Spain	57.226

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fernando Rufino de Paulo	Brazil	44.004	QA
2	Markus Swoboda	Austria	44.834	QA
3		Germany	47.485	QA
4		Ukraine	48.125	QB
5		Poland	50.075	QB
6		Hungary	51.540	QB
7		Portugal	51.880	QB
8		Russia	52.535	qB
9		Japan	1:02.485

Finals[]

Final B[]

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

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1		Ukraine	46.805
2		Kazakhstan	46.865
3		Great Britain	47.165
4	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	47.195
5		Poland	48.405
6		Hungary	49.555
7		China	50.135
8		Portugal	50.215
9		Russia	50.410

Final A[]

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

Rank	Name	Country	Time
	Curtis McGrath	Australia	41.735
	Scott Martlew	New Zealand	42.360
	Mykola Syniuk	Ukraine	43.230
4	Markus Swoboda	Austria	43.605
5	Federico Mancarella	Italy	43.795
6	Fernando Rufino de Paulo	Brazil	43.865
7	Nick Beighton	Great Britain	44.160
8		Germany	46.130
9		Serbia	48.520

References[]