The men's canoe sprint C-2 1,000 metres at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 7 and 9 August at Eton Dorney.
German pairing Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela won the gold medal. Belarus won silver and Russia took bronze.
Competition format
The competition comprised heats, semi-finals, and a final round. Heat winners advanced to the 'A' final, with all other boats getting a second chance in the semi-finals. The top three from each semifinal also advanced to the 'A' final, and competed for medals. A placing 'B' final was held for the other semi-finalists.
Schedule
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) Date Time RoundTuesday 7 August 2012 09:4610:55 HeatsSemifinalsThursday 9 August 2012 09:30Finals
Results
Heats The fastest boat qualified for the final, remainder went through to the semi-finals.
Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Peter KretschmerKurt Kuschela 3:34.435Q2 Alexey KorovashkovIlya Pervukhin 3:37.5683 Huang MaoxingLi Qiang 3:38.4834 Jaroslav RadoňFilip Dvořák 3:38.7115 Marcin GrzybowskiTomasz Kaczor 3:38.7596 Alex HaasJake Donaghey 3:52.589
Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Sergiy BezugliyMaksim Prokopenko 3:38.042Q2 Erlon SilvaRonilson Oliveira 3:41.0143 Andrei BahdanovichAliaksandr Bahdanovich 3:42.5994 Alexandru DumitrescuVictor Mihalachi 3:43.7875 Serguey TorresJosé Carlos Bulnes 3:44.3416 Fortunato PacaviraNelson Henriques 4:16.478
Semifinals The fastest three canoeists in each semi-final qualified for the 'A' final. The slowest two canoeists in each semi-final qualified for the placing 'B' final.
Semifinal 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Alexey KorovashkovIlya Pervukhin 3:36.456Q2 Andrei BahdanovichAliaksandr Bahdanovich 3:36.540Q3 Alexandru DumitrescuVictor Mihalachi 3:36.551Q4 Marcin GrzybowskiTomasz Kaczor 3:37.6955 Alex HaasJake Donaghey 3:52.018
Semifinal 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Huang MaoxingLi Qiang 3:37.746Q2 Jaroslav RadoňFilip Dvořák 3:37.839Q3 Serguey TorresJosé Carlos Bulnes 3:41.619Q4 Erlon SilvaRonilson Oliveira 3:42.1015 Fortunato PacaviraNelson Henriques 4:18.543
Finals
Final B RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Marcin GrzybowskiTomasz Kaczor 3:37.6922 Erlon SilvaRonilson Oliveira 3:41.4843 Alex HaasJake Donaghey 3:50.7824 Fortunato PacaviraNelson Henriques 4:15.497
Final A RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes Peter KretschmerKurt Kuschela 3:33.804 Andrei BahdanovichAliaksandr Bahdanovich 3:35.206 Alexey KorovashkovIlya Pervukhin 3:36.4144 Sergiy BezugliyMaksim Prokopenko 3:37.2195 Jaroslav RadoňFilip Dvořák 3:37.6016 Serguey TorresJosé Carlos Bulnes 3:42.3577 Alexandru DumitrescuVictor Mihalachi 3:43.0058 Huang MaoxingLi Qiang 3:48.930
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