The men's C-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing between August 18 and 22. The C-2 event was raced in two-man sprint canoes.
Competition consisted of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals and the final. All boats competed in the heats. The top three finishers in each of the two heats advanced directly to the final, while the top nine finishers from both heats moved on to the semifinal. The top three finishers in the semifinal joined the heats winners in the final.
Heats took place on August 18, semifinals on August 20, and the final on August 22.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundMonday, August 18, 2008 17:10-17:30 HeatsWednesday, August 20, 2008 16:30-16:40 SemifinalFriday, August 22, 2008 17:05-17:15 Final
Results
Heats Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, 4..7->Semifinal + 8th best time, Rest Out
Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek3:40.939 QF2Constantin Ciprian Popa, Niculae Flocea3:41.846 QF3Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny3:43.491 QF4György Kozmann, Tamás Kiss3:46.020QS5Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba3:46.431 QS6Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo3:51.684 QS7Ruslan Dzhalilov, Petro Kruk4:06.744QS
Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1Aliaksandr Bahdanovich, Andrei Bahdanovich3:40.369 QF2Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar Chacón3:41.171 QF3Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod3:41.291 QF4Chen Zhongyun, Zhang Zhiwu3:41.658 QS5Wojciech Tyszyński, Paweł Baraszkiewicz3:42.177 QS6Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev3:54.111 QS
Semifinal Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1Wojciech Tyszyński, Paweł Baraszkiewicz3:42.435 QF2György Kozmann, Tamás Kiss3:42.482 QF3Chen Zhongyun, Zhang Zhiwu3:42.619 QF4Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev3:45.019 5Ruslan Dzhalilov, Petro Kruk3:46.0506Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba3:48.406 7Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo3:49.695
Final RankCanoerCountryTimeNotesAliaksandr Bahdanovich, Andrei Bahdanovich3:36.365 Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek3:36.588 György Kozmann, Tamás Kiss3:40.258 4Constantin Ciprian Popa, Niculae Flocea3:40.342 5Chen Zhongyun, Zhang Zhiwu3:40.593 6Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny3:41.165 7Wojciech Tyszyński, Paweł Baraszkiewicz 3:42.845 8Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod3:44.669 9Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar Chacón3:48.877
References
Sports-reference.com 2008 C-2 1000 m results. Yahoo! August 18, 2008 sprint heat results. – accessed August 19, 2008. Yahoo! August 20, 2008 sprint semifinal results. – accessed August 20, 2008. Yahoo! August 22, 2008 sprint final results. – accessed August 22, 2008.