2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's VL3

Men's VL3 at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	22–25 August
Competitors	26 from 18 nations
Winning time	47.642
Medalists
Curtis McGrath    Australia      Brazil      Great Britain
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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 VL3 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	15:05	Heats
	16:30	Semifinals
Saturday 25 August 2018	10:53	Final B
	10:59	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		Russia	57.735	QA
2		Spain	57.995	QS
3	Patrick Viriamu	Tahiti	59.500	QS
4		New Zealand	1:00.070	QS
5		Ireland	1:00.560	QS
6		Great Britain	1:00.775	QS
7		Argentina	1:02.245	QS
8		Japan	1:09.036
9		Portugal	1:29.782

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Curtis McGrath	Australia	52.925	QA
2		Brazil	56.461	QS
3	Scott Martlew	New Zealand	57.321	QS
4		Italy	57.436	QS
5	Markus Swoboda	Austria	58.406	QS
6		United States	1:00.746	QS
7		Poland	1:00.981	QS
8		Spain	1:09.276

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1		France	54.758	QA
2		Great Britain	56.753	QS
3		Poland	57.138	QS
4	Mykola Syniuk	Ukraine	58.504	QS
5		Germany	1:01.174	QS
6		Ukraine	1:02.084	QS
7		France	1:02.314	QS
8		Russia	1:06.119
9		Japan	1:08.249

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		Great Britain	56.695	QA
2		Great Britain	58.385	QA
3		Italy	58.410	QA
4	Mykola Syniuk	Ukraine	58.450	QB
5	Scott Martlew	New Zealand	58.470	QB
6	Patrick Viriamu	Tahiti	58.720	QB
7		Ireland	1:00.535	QB
8		United States	1:00.650	qB
9		France	1:01.980

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1		Brazil	55.194	QA
2		Spain	56.644	QA
3	Markus Swoboda	Austria	57.304	QA
4		Poland	57.794	QB
5		Poland	59.944	QB
6		New Zealand	1:00.014	QB
7		Germany	1:00.549	QB
8		Ukraine	1:00.789
9		Argentina	1:01.855

Finals[]

Final B[]

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

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1		Poland	50.818
2	Scott Martlew	New Zealand	52.348
3		Ireland	52.788
4		New Zealand	52.953
5		Germany	53.083
6		United States	53.113
7	Patrick Viriamu	Tahiti	53.183
8		Poland	54.133
9	Mykola Syniuk	Ukraine	54.938

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	47.642
		Brazil	48.837
		Great Britain	49.492
4		Great Britain	49.747
5		France	50.197
6		Russia	51.227
7		Italy	51.647
8	Markus Swoboda	Austria	52.042
9		Spain	52.937

References[]