The men's C-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The C-2 event is raced in two-man sprint canoes. This would be the last time the event would take place at the Summer Olympics. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced by 200 m events at the 2012 Summer Olympics with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women. The other events for men at 200 m will be C-1, C-2, and K-1.13 August 2009 International Canoe Federation announcement of canoe sprint format changes for the 2012 Summer Olympics. – accessed 14 August 2009.
Competition consists of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals, and the final. All boats compete in the heats. The top finisher in each of the three heats advances directly to the final, while the next six finishers (places 2 through 7) in each heat move on to the semifinals. The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals join the heats winners in the final.
Heats took place on August 19, semifinal on August 21, and final on August 23.
Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundTuesday, August 19, 2008 17:30-17:50 HeatsThursday, August 21, 2008 16:50-17:00 SemifinalSaturday, August 23, 2008 17:05-17:20 Final
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Results
Heats Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, 4..7->Semifinal + 8th best time, Rest Out
Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1Meng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun1:41.218 QF2Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod1:41.241 QF3Daniel Jędraszko, Roman Rynkiewicz1:42.309 QF4Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis1:42.803QS5Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev1:43.428 QS6Mátyás Sáfrán, Mihály Zoltán Sáfrán1:43.642QS7Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar1:44.155QS8Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo1:54.090QS
Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek1:41.513 QF2Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich1:41.767 QF3Sergiy Bezuglyy, Maksym Prokopenko1:42.054 QF4Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici1:42.306QS5Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny1:43.189 QS6Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba1:43.453QS7Kaisar Nurmaganbetov, Aleksey Dyadchuk1:45.730QS
Semifinal Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici1:42.545 QF2Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev1:42.891 QF3Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny1:42.921 QF4Raimundas Labuckas, Tomas Gadeikis1:43.299 5Serguey Torres, Karel Aguilar1:43.673 6Bertrand Hémonic, William Tchamba1:43.8747Kaisar Nurmaganbetov, Aleksey Dyadchuk1:44.992 8Mátyás Sáfrán, Mihály Zoltán Sáfrán1:45.032 9Everardo Cristóbal, Dimas Camilo1:48.853
Final RankCanoerCountryTimeNotesMeng Guanliang, Yang Wenjun1:41.025 Sergey Ulegin, Aleksandr Kostoglod1:41.282 Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek1:41.964 4Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich1:41.996 5Andrew Russell, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny1:42.450 6Iosif Chirilă, Andrei Cuculici 1:43.195 7Deyan Georgiev, Adnan Aliev 1:43.971 8Sergiy Bezuglyy, Maksym Prokopenko1:44.157 9Daniel Jędraszko, Roman Rynkiewicz1:44.389
The Chinese duo repeated their gold from 2004 and had to be fished out of the water after Meng Guanliang dived into the water right after crossing the finish line, causing the canoe to capsize.
References
Sports-reference.com 2008 C-2 500 m results. Yahoo! August 19, 2008 sprint heat results. – accessed August 19, 2008. Yahoo! August 21, 2008 sprint semifinal results. – accessed August 21, 2008. Yahoo! August 23, 2008 sprint final results. – accessed August 23, 2008. YouTube.com of the Olympic final. – accessed 13 August 2009 (Commentary in German).