These are the results of the men's C-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoes.

Medalists Gold Silver Bronze

Heats The 14 teams first raced in two heats on August 24. The top three finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the final, and the remaining 8 teams moved on to the semifinal. HeatPlaceAthlete CountryTimeNotes11 Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek 1:40.128 QF12 Attila Buday and Tamas Buday Jr. 1:40.488 QF13 Paweł Baraszkiewicz and Daniel Jędraszko 1:40.524 QF14 György Kozmann and György Kolonics 1:41.324 QS15 Maksym Prokopenko and Ruslan Dzhalilov 1:44.532 QS16 Peter Páleš and Daniel Biksadsky 1:45.860 QS17 Jordan Malloch and Nathan Johnson 1:48.172 QS21 Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun 1:38.916 QF22 Ibrahim Rojas and Ledis Balceiro 1:39.860 QF23 Alexander Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov 1:40.128 QF24 Silviu Simioncencu and Florin Popescu 1:41.368 QS25 Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich 1:41.576 QS26 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató 1:43.708 QS27 Yannick Lavigne and Jose Lenoir 1:49.940 QS

Semifinal The top three finishers in the semifinal (raced on August 26) advanced to the final, joining the six teams who had moved directly from the heats. All other teams were eliminated.

1. 1:41.424 QF2. 1:41.472 QF3. 1:42.484 QF4. 1:42.8605. 1:43.1606. 1:44.7327. 1:45.5488. 1:46.424

Final The final was held on August 28. 1:40.278 1:40.350 1:40.4424. 1:40.6185. 1:40.8026. 1:40.8587. 1:41.1388. 1:41.2109. 1:42.046

The Chinese duo had just won their first World Cup races weeks earlier and were only looking to gain experience for the next Summer Olympics in Beijing. The race was so close that race officials could not determine the winners until most of the canoers were out of their boats and the canoes were on the dock.

References 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results Sports-reference.com 2004 C-2 500 m results. Wallechinsky, David and Jamie Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Pairs 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 482. Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results