These are the results of the women's K-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-person canoe sprint kayaks.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Heats The 15 teams first raced in two heats. The top three finishers in each heat advanced directly to the final, and the remaining nine teams advanced to the semifinal. No teams were eliminated in the heats. The heats were raced on August 24. HeatPlaceAthlete CountryTimeNotes11 Katalin Kovács and Nataša Janić 1:38.606 QF12 Beatriz Manchon and Maria Teresa Portela 1:41.338 QF13 Caroline Brunet and Mylanie Barre 1:43.434 QF14 Shinobu Kitamoto and Yumiko Suzuki 1:44.730 QS15 Anne Laure Viard and Marie Delattre 1:45.090 QS16 Kathryn Colin and Lauren Spalding 1:45.158 QS17 Florica Vulpeş and Lidia Talpă 1:45.386 QS18 Natalya Sergeyeva and Ellina Uzhakhova 1:46.710 QS21 Birgit Fischer and Carolin Leonhardt 1:39.588 QF22 Xu Linbei and Zhong Hongyan 1:40.943 QF23 Aneta Pastuszka and Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza 1:41.164 QF24 Sofia Paldanius and Anna Karlsson 1:44.059 QS25 Delyana Dacheva and Bonka Pindzheva 1:44.268 QS26 Hanna Puchkova and Alena Bets 1:45.279 QS27 Paula Harvey and Susan Tegg 1:46.319 QS
Semifinal The top three finishers in the semifinal race qualified for the final, joining the six teams that had advanced directly from the heats. The other six teams were eliminated. The semifinal was raced on August 26. 1. 1:44.246 QF2. 1:44.570 QF3. 1:45.234 QF4. 1:45.6265. 1:45.7706. 1:46.2147. 1:46.7868. 1:47.6149. 1:51.402
Final The final was raced on August 28. 1:38.101 1:39.533 1:40.0774. 1:40.9135. 1:42.4096. 1:42.5537. 1:42.8338. 1:43.0779. 1:43.729
References
2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results Sports-reference.com 2004 women's K-2 500 m results. Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results