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

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	Martin Brzeziński Rafał Rosolski Dawid Putto Norbert Kuczyński	Poland	1:25.170	QS
3	Deniss Volkovs Roberts Akmens Kaspars Tiklenieks Aldis Arturs Vilde	Latvia	1:25.180	QS
4	Franck Le Moël Guillaume Burger Étienne Hubert Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont	France	1:25.833	QS
5	Dejan Pajić Simo Boltić Ervin Holpert Strahinja Stefanović	Serbia	1:26.583	QS
6	Chrisjan Coetzee David Rodrigues Michael Arthur Nicholas Weeks	South Africa	1:26.590	QS
7	Dmytro Danylenko Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Kostyshen Denys Lakmanov	Ukraine	1:27.650	QS
8	Viliyan Buchvarov Hristo Rekov Todor Kolevski Veselin Vulchov	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 Milan Fraňa Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:25.244	QS
5	Nicola Ripamonti Alessandro Gnecchi Andrea Schera Edoardo Chierini	Italy	1:25.248	QS
6	Dzmitry Tratsiakou Raman Piatrushenka Vitaliy Bialko Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:25.491	QS
7	Cosmin Lulciuc Razvan Albisoru Aurelian Ciocan Sorin Cical	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 Vitaly Ershov Vasily Pogreban	Russia	1:25.461	QS
3	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Mindaugas Maldonis Simonas Maldonis	Lithuania	1:25.598	QS
4	Omar de Andrés Pablo de Torres Ezequiel Di Giacomo Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:25.641	QS
5	Jakub Zavřel Josef Dostál Radek Šlouf Jan Štěrba	Czech Republic	1:25.851	QS
6	Ryan Cochrane Marshall Hughes Nicholas Matveev Pierre-Luc Poulin	Canada	1:26.141	QS
7	Jon Schofield Matthew Robinson Liam Heath Lewis Fletcher	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 Vitaly Ershov Vasily Pogreban	Russia	1:21.653	QA
2	Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Milan Fraňa 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 Vitaliy Bialko Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:23.189	QB
6	Omar de Andrés Pablo de Torres Ezequiel Di Giacomo Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:23.349	QB
7	Jon Schofield Matthew Robinson Liam Heath Lewis Fletcher	Great Britain	1:24.076	QB
8	Deniss Volkovs Roberts Akmens Kaspars Tiklenieks Aldis Arturs Vilde	Latvia	1:24.856	qB
9	Chrisjan Coetzee David Rodrigues Michael Arthur Nicholas Weeks	South Africa	1:28.226

Semifinal 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jakub Zavřel 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	Franck Le Moël Guillaume Burger Étienne Hubert Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont	France	1:22.135	QA
4	Cosmin Lulciuc Razvan Albisoru Aurelian Ciocan Sorin Cical	Romania	1:23.058	QB
5	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Mindaugas Maldonis Simonas Maldonis	Lithuania	1:23.081	QB
6	Martin Brzeziński Rafał Rosolski Dawid Putto Norbert Kuczyński	Poland	1:24.361	QB
7	Nicola Ripamonti Alessandro Gnecchi Andrea Schera Edoardo Chierini	Italy	1:24.515	QB
8	Dmytro Danylenko Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Kostyshen Denys Lakmanov	Ukraine	1:26.421
9	Ryan Cochrane Marshall Hughes 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 Vitaliy Bialko Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:22.752
2	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Mindaugas Maldonis Simonas Maldonis	Lithuania	1:24.232
3	Cosmin Lulciuc Razvan Albisoru Aurelian Ciocan Sorin Cical	Romania	1:24.452
4	Jon Schofield Matthew Robinson Liam Heath Lewis Fletcher	Great Britain	1:24.939
	Deniss Volkovs Roberts Akmens Kaspars Tiklenieks Aldis Arturs Vilde	Latvia
6	Martin Brzeziński Rafał Rosolski Dawid Putto Norbert Kuczyński	Poland	1:25.382
7	Dejan Pajić Simo Boltić Ervin Holpert Strahinja Stefanović	Serbia	1:26.519
8	Omar de Andrés Pablo de Torres Ezequiel Di Giacomo Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:26.846
9	Nicola Ripamonti Alessandro Gnecchi Andrea Schera Edoardo Chierini	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 Vitaly Ershov Vasily Pogreban	Russia	1:22.006
6	Franck Le Moël Guillaume Burger Étienne Hubert Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont	France	1:22.530
7	Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Milan Fraňa Tibor Linka	Slovakia	1:22.596
8	Jakub Zavřel 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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