2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres

Men's K-2 500 metres at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Lake Bagsværd
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	17–19 September
Competitors	50 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:29.04
Medalists
Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade    Spain   Tobias-Pascal Schultz Martin Hiller    Germany   Samuel Baláž Denis Myšák    Slovakia

The men's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen took place on Lake Bagsværd.^[1]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Friday 17 September 2021	10:15	Heats
	16:43	Semifinals
Sunday 19 September 2021	10:36	Final B
	11:51	Final A

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

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	Dmytro Danylenko Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:33.33	QA
2	Nicholas Matveev Simon McTavish	Canada	1:33.53	QS
3	Uladzislau Litvinau Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:36.37	QS
4	Radoslav Stefanov Veselin Valchov	Bulgaria	1:37.53	QS
5	Rok Šmit Vid Debeljak	Slovenia	1:37.91	QS
6	Flavio Spurio Andrea Schera	Italy	1:38.06	QS
7	Jeremy Hakala Joona Mäntynen	Finland	1:38.53	QS
8	Andjelo Dzombeta Nikola Rasulić	Serbia	1:39.27
9	Lasse Lotsberg Kristoffet Mjelstad	Norway	1:39.35

Heat 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Samuel Baláž Denis Myšák	Slovakia	1:33.60	QA
2	Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:33.61	QS
3	René Holten Poulsen Victor Aasmul	Denmark	1:33.70	QS
4	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:34.89	QS
5	Dennis Kernen Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:34.91	QS
6	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:35.64	QS
7	Oleg Gusev Maxim Spesivtsev	RCF	1:35.71	QS
8	Filip Weckwert Przemysław Korsak	Poland	1:36.33

Heat 3

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tobias-Pascal Schultz Martin Hiller	Germany	1:32.72	QA
2	Csaba Erdőssy Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:33.41	QS
3	Guillaume Burger Maxime Beaumont	France	1:35.56	QS
4	Tomas Sobisek Jakub Brabec	Czech Republic	1:36.39	QS
5	Aldis Arturs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:36.96	QS
6	Daniel Atkins Trevor Thomson	Great Britain	1:37.51	QS
7	Manuel Micaz Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:37.55	QS
8	Akira Komata Seiji Komatsu	Japan	1:39.96

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	René Holten Poulsen Victor Aasmul	Denmark	1:31.74	QA
2	Nicholas Matveev Simon McTavish	Canada	1:32.20	QA
3	Dennis Kernen Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:32.41	QA
4	Guillaume Burger Maxime Beaumont	France	1:32.63	QB
5	Oleg Gusev Maxim Spesivtsev	RCF	1:33.25	QB
6	Daniel Atkins Trevor Thomson	Great Britain	1:34.53	QB
7	Tomas Sobisek Jakub Brabec	Czech Republic	1:34.91	QB
8	Flavio Spurio Andrea Schera	Italy	1:36.05
9	Radoslav Stefanov Veselin Valchov	Bulgaria	1:38.85

Semifinal 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Csaba Erdőssy Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:31.01	QA
2	Aldis Arturs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:31.28	QA
3	Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:31.29	QA
4	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:31.48	QB
5	Uladzislau Litvinau Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:31.75	QB
6	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:32.92	QB
7	Manuel Micaz Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:33.79	QB
8	Jeremy Hakala Joona Mäntynen	Finland	1:35.05	qB
9	Rok Šmit Vid Debeljak	Slovenia	1:35.72

Finals

Final B

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
1	Uladzislau Litvinau Dzmitry Natynchyk	Belarus	1:30.70
2	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	1:30.78
3	Guillaume Burger Maxime Beaumont	France	1:31.61
4	Tomas Sobisek Jakub Brabec	Czech Republic	1:31.88
5	Manuel Micaz Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:31.98
6	Daniel Atkins Trevor Thomson	Great Britain	1:32.58
7	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:32.60
8	Jeremy Hakala Joona Mäntynen	Finland	1:36.54
9	Oleg Gusev Maxim Spesivtsev	RCF	1:40.90

Final A

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade	Spain	1:29.04
	Tobias-Pascal Schultz Martin Hiller	Germany	1:30.01
	Samuel Baláž Denis Myšák	Slovakia	1:30.09
4	Csaba Erdőssy Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:30.47
5	Dmytro Danylenko Oleh Kukharyk	Ukraine	1:30.54
6	Nicholas Matveev Simon McTavish	Canada	1:30.63
7	René Holten Poulsen Victor Aasmul	Denmark	1:31.13
8	Aldis Arturs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:31.21
9	Dennis Kernen Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:32.40

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