The men's canoe sprint K-2 200 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 10 and 11 August at Eton Dorney.

Yury Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko, representing Russia, won the gold medal. Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu from Belarus won silver and Great Britain's Liam Heath and Jon Schofield took bronze.

Format

The competition comprised heats, semifinals, and a final round. Heat winners advanced to the "A" final, with all other boats getting a second chance in the semifinals. 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 semifinalists.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) Date Time RoundFriday 10 August 2012 10:3311:44 HeatsSemifinalsSaturday 11 August 2012 10:41Finals

Results

Heats The five best placed boat from each heat qualified for the semifinals, remainder went to the "B" final.

Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Yury PostrigayAlexander Dyachenko 32.321Q2 Ronald RauheJonas Ems 32.905Q3 Arnaud HyboisSébastien Jouve 32.933Q4 Ryan CochraneHugues Fournel 33.407Q5 Ionuț MitreaBogdan Mada 33.978Q6 Alexey DergunovYevgeniy Alexeyev 34.254– Fernando PimentaEmanuel Silva DNS

Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Raman PiatrushenkaVadzim Makhneu 33.129Q2 Liam HeathJon Schofield 33.364Q3 Miguel CorreaRubén Voisard 33.623Q4 Stephen BirdJesse Phillips 34.120Q5 Krists StraumeAleksejs Rumjancevs 34.447Q6 Momotaro MatsushitaHiroki Watanabe 34.6697 Olivier CauwenberghLaurens Pannecoucke 35.297

Semifinals First four boats in each semifinal qualify for the "A" final, remainder go to the "B" final.

Semifinal 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Yury PostrigayAlexander Dyachenko 32.051Q, OB2 Liam HeathJon Schofield 32.940Q3 Miguel CorreaRubén Voisard 33.105Q4 Ryan CochraneHugues Fournel 33.500Q5 Ionuț MitreaBogdan Mada 34.253

Semifinal 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Raman PiatrushenkaVadzim Makhneu 32.641Q2 Ronald RauheJonas Ems 32.662Q3 Arnaud HyboisSébastien Jouve 32.668Q4 Stephen BirdJesse Phillips 34.071Q5 Krists StraumeAleksejs Rumjancevs 34.140

Finals

Final B RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Alexey DergunovYevgeniy Alexeyev 35.4942 Momotaro MatsushitaHiroki Watanabe 35.7393 Krists StraumeAleksejs Rumjancevs 36.1104 Olivier CauwenberghLaurens Pannecoucke 36.3365 Ionuț MitreaBogdan Mada 46.495

Final A RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes Yury PostrigayAlexander Dyachenko 33.507 Raman PiatrushenkaVadzim Makhneu 34.266 Liam HeathJon Schofield 34.4214 Arnaud HyboisSébastien Jouve 35.0125 Miguel CorreaRubén Voisard 35.2716 Stephen BirdJesse Phillips 35.3157 Ryan CochraneHugues Fournel 35.3968 Ronald RauheJonas Ems 35.405

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