2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-4 500 metres

The men's K-4 500 metres competition at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań took place in Lake Malta.

Schedule The schedule is as follows: Date Time Round Wednesday 26 August 2026 09:31 Heats Thursday 27 August 2026 14:48 Semifinals Friday 28 August 2025 14:27 Final B 15:11 Final A

Results Heats Four heats were held on morning of 26 August 2026.Men's K-4 500 metres Heats results from ICF

Qualification rule : First six in each heat (SF) plus three next fastest (qBT) qualify for semi-finals; remainder are eliminated.

Heat 1 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Jean van der WesthuyzenPierre van der WesthuyzenRiley FitzsimmonsNoah Havard 1:23.48 2Simonas MaldonisViktor ČaplinskijIgnas NavakauskasArtūras Seja 1:23.90 3Jakub StepunJaroslaw KajdanekValerii VichevSławomir Witczak 1:24.62 4Mikita BorykauUladzislau LitvinauIlyia FedarenkaDzmitry Natynchyk Neutral Athletes B 1:25.78 5James MunroGrant ClancyKurtis ImrieHamish Legarth 1:25.82 6Rafaël BastiaensLouis VangeelArtuur PetersRaphael Akerele 1:26.96 7 Juraj KukučkaJakub BartolčičAlex GavliderDominik Doktorik 1:27.12 8Denis KleninArtyom TerechshenkoZhakhongir ZhamedovIgor Ryashentsev 1:30.72

Heat 2 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Max RendschmidtMax LemkeJacob SchopfTom Liebscher 1:23.66 2Jakub ŠpicarJakub BrabecDaniel HavelRadek Šlouf 1:24.45 3Francesco LanciottiFederico ZanuttaNicola VoloGiovanni Penato 1:25.46 4Cho Gwang-heeKim Hyo-binJang Sang-wonChoi Min-kyu 1:26.29 5Artem KorovinGeorgii VaniashovViktor GavrilenkoMaxim Spesivtsev Neutral Athletes A 1:26.33 6Ziyodbek YuldashalievOleksandr ZarubinSamandar KhaydarovOzodjon Amriddinov 1:29.08 7 Hasan SaraçMuhammet Emin SulakTaha Erkam UstaRahmi Kaan Karahan 1:30.31 Subhi SubhiDede SunandarWandi WandiIndra Hidayat

Heat 3 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Adrián del RíoMarcus CooperCarlos ArévaloRodrigo Germade 1:24.85 2Zarko JakovljevicStrahinja DragosavljevićMarko DragosavljevićBranko Lagundžić 1:25.56 3Liang FengweiDing ShengkaiChen WeiyangWang Jinwei 1:27.07 4Nicholas MatveevMathieu GilbertHarris HunterLaurent Lavigne 1:27.33 5Luca LauperSven HirzelAaron SchmitterFynn Wyss 1:27.78 6Aaron SmallSean TalbertJonas EckerAugustus Cook 1:27.79 7 Lev LuninMaxim RogutIvan VladimirovChirill Savcenco 1:30.95 8Ooi Brandon Wei ChengAlden LerOliver Euan BowhayWei Jie Sean Teo 1:33.53

Heat 4 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Gustavo GonçalvesJoão RibeiroMessias BaptistaPedro Casinha 1:24.69 2Bence NádasBence FodorLevente KuruczSándor Tótka 1:25.08 3Gustav BockVictor Gairy AasmulMorten GraversenSimon Schuldt Hein 1:25.29 4Oleh KukharykDmytro DanylenkoIhor TrunovHeorhii Seleznov 1:25.84 5Dennis KernenErik AnderssonKarl BrodenJesper Johansson 1:28.71 6Joaquin CatalanoManuel OreroGonzalo CarrerasRubén Rézola 1:30.02 7 Naocha Singh LaitonjamVarinder SinghOinam Arun SinghHarshwardhan Singh Shaktawat 1:34.12 Semifinals Thre semifinals were held on morning of 27 August 2026.Men's K-4 500 metres Semifinals results from ICF

Qualification rule : First three in each heat to A final (FA) next three in each heat to B final (FB); remainder are eliminated.

Semifinal 1 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Jean van der WesthuyzenPierre van der WesthuyzenRiley FitzsimmonsNoah Havard 1:24.99 2Gustav BockVictor Gairy AasmulMorten GraversenSimon Schuldt Hein 1:25.32 3Zarko JakovljevicStrahinja DragosavljevićMarko DragosavljevićBranko Lagundžić 1:26.43 4Oleh KukharykDmytro DanylenkoIhor TrunovHeorhii Seleznov 1:26.70 5Jakub ŠpicarJakub BrabecDaniel HavelRadek Šlouf 1:26.74 6James MunroGrant ClancyKurtis ImrieHamish Legarth 1:28.56 7Luca LauperSven HirzelAaron SchmitterFynn Wyss 1:29.06 8Juraj KukučkaJakub BartolčičAlex GavliderDominik Doktorik 1:30.11 9Ziyodbek YuldashalievOleksandr ZarubinSamandar KhaydarovOzodjon Amriddinov 1:32.56 Semifinal 2 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Max RendschmidtMax LemkeJacob SchopfTom Liebscher 1:25.99 2Jakub StepunJaroslaw KajdanekValerii VichevSławomir Witczak 1:27.06 3Bence NádasBence FodorLevente KuruczSándor Tótka 1:27.10 4Artem KorovinGeorgii VaniashovViktor GavrilenkoMaxim Spesivtsev Neutral Athletes A 1:27.85 5Mikita BorykauUladzislau LitvinauIlyia FedarenkaDzmitry Natynchyk Neutral Athletes B 1:28.48 6Liang FengweiDing ShengkaiChen WeiyangWang Jinwei 1:28.74 7Nicholas MatveevMathieu GilbertHarris HunterLaurent Lavigne 1:29.50 8Joaquin CatalanoManuel OreroGonzalo CarrerasRubén Rézola 1:30.54 9Hasan SaraçMuhammet Emin SulakTaha Erkam UstaRahmi Kaan Karahan 1:35.18

Semifinal 3 RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Simonas MaldonisViktor ČaplinskijIgnas NavakauskasArtūras Seja 1:24.51 2Gustavo GonçalvesJoão RibeiroMessias BaptistaPedro Casinha 1:24.61 3Adrián del RíoMarcus CooperCarlos ArévaloRodrigo Germade 1:24.79 4Francesco LanciottiFederico ZanuttaNicola VoloGiovanni Penato 1:26.86 5Aaron SmallSean TalbertJonas EckerAugustus Cook 1:27.25 6Cho Gwang-heeKim Hyo-binJang Sang-wonChoi Min-kyu 1:27.37 7Rafaël BastiaensLouis VangeelArtuur PetersRaphael Akerele 1:28.26 8Dennis KernenErik AnderssonKarl BrodenJesper Johansson 1:29.44 9Lev LuninMaxim RogutIvan VladimirovChirill Savcenco 1:33.50

Finals The A and B finals were held on the afternoon of 28 August.Men's K-4 500 metres Finals results from ICF

B Final RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes 1Francesco LanciottiFederico ZanuttaNicola VoloGiovanni Penato 1:27.12 2Jakub ŠpicarJakub BrabecDaniel HavelRadek Šlouf 1:27.52 3Artem KorovinGeorgii VaniashovViktor GavrilenkoMaxim Spesivtsev Neutral Athletes A 1:27.59 4James MunroGrant ClancyKurtis ImrieHamish Legarth 1:28.43 5Oleh KukharykDmytro DanylenkoIhor TrunovHeorhii Seleznov 1:28.80 6Liang FengweiDing ShengkaiChen WeiyangWang Jinwei 1:29.24 7Mikita BorykauUladzislau LitvinauIlyia FedarenkaDzmitry Natynchyk Neutral Athletes B 1:30.46 8Cho Gwang-heeKim Hyo-binJang Sang-wonChoi Min-kyu 1:30.96 9Aaron SmallSean TalbertJonas EckerAugustus Cook 1:31.12

A Final RankCanoeistCountryTimeNotes Max RendschmidtMax LemkeJacob SchopfTom Liebscher 1:23.95 Jean van der WesthuyzenPierre van der WesthuyzenRiley FitzsimmonsNoah Havard 1:24.57 Gustavo GonçalvesJoão RibeiroMessias BaptistaPedro Casinha 1:25.53 4Zarko JakovljevicStrahinja DragosavljevićMarko DragosavljevićBranko Lagundžić 1:25.76 5Bence NádasBence FodorLevente KuruczSándor Tótka 1:26.00 6Simonas MaldonisViktor ČaplinskijIgnas NavakauskasArtūras Seja 1:26.01 7Jakub StepunJaroslaw KajdanekValerii VichevSławomir Witczak 1:26.08 8Adrián del RíoMarcus CooperCarlos ArévaloRodrigo Germade 1:26.91 9Gustav BockVictor Gairy AasmulMorten GraversenSimon Schuldt Hein 1:27.20

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