2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Women's K-2 500 metres

The women's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań took place at Lake Malta.Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Bulletin 1

Schedule The schedule is as follows:Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Schedule Date Time Round Thursday 27 August 2026 Heats Saturday 29 August 2026 Semifinals Sunday 30 August 2026 Final B Final A

Record

The best performance previously in this discipline was:

+ Women's K-2 500 metres World Best 1:35.78 Tokyo

Heats

Three heats were held. The results of the heats were as follows:Women's K-2 500 m - Heats - Results

Qualification rule : Winner in each heat to the final: Next six in each heat qualify for semi-finals; remainder are eliminated.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Martyna KlattAnna Pulawska 1:50.16 2 6 Selma KonijnRuth Vorsselman 1:50.84 0.68 3 4 Lucrezia ZironiGiada Rossetti 1:51.35 1.19 4 1 Lizaveta VilkovaAlina Svita 1:52.77 2.61 5 3 Brenda RojasMaria Magdalena Garro 1:53.19 3.03 6 7 Karina Alanis MoralesMaricela Montemayor Rodriguez 1:54.74 4.58 7 2 Anezka PaloudovaZuzana Hanusova 1:57.34 7.18 8 8 Diana RybakSnizhana Stalinova 1:57.51 7.35 9 9 Honami TohdaYui Taniguchi 2:04.55 14.39

Heat 2 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Kailey HarlenNatalia Drobot 1:50.27 2 4 Anja ApollonioMia Medved 1:57.18 6.91 3 6 Estefania FernandezBegona Lazkano 1:57.74 7.47 4 8 Ana BritoClara Duarte 1:58.83 8.56 5 2 Marija DostanicDunja Stanojev 1:59.48 9.21 6 7 Callie LochMichelle Russell 2:01.73 11.46 7 3 Sara Corfixsen MilthersBolette Nyvang Iversen 2:03.84 13.57 1 Ramla BaharuddinStevani Maysche Ibo DNS

Heat 3 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 6 Shimeng YuMengdie Yin 1:51.20 2 5 Paulina PaszekPauline Jagsch 1:52.08 0.88 3 3 Hermien PetersLize Broekx 1:53.42 2.22 4 4 Melina AnderssonJulia Lagerstam 1:54.22 3.02 5 1 Olga ShmelyovaTatyana Tokarnitskaya 1:55.26 4.06 6 2 Ekaterina ShubinaArina Tanatmisheva 1:56.07 4.87 7 8 Bianka Vivien HoferFlora Tolgyesi 1:56.26 5.06 8 7 Arezou MotamediElena Wolgamot 1:58.23 7.03

Semi finals

Two semifinal swere held. The Results of the semi finals were as follows:Women's K-2 500 m - Semifinals - Results

Qualification rule : First three in each heat to A final: Next four in each heat plus next best boat on time to B final.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Paulina PaszekPauline Jagsch 1:40.13 2 6 Lucrezia ZironiGiada Rossetti 1:41.56 1.43 3 4 Estefania FernandezBegona Lazkano 1:42.58 2.45 4 9 Karina Alanis MoralesMaricela Montemayor Rodriguez 1:42.63 2.5 5 1 Bianka Vivien HoferFlora Tolgyesi 1:42.92 2.79 6 2 Brenda RojasMaria Magdalena Garro 1:43.49 3.36 7 3 Melina AnderssonJulia Lagerstam 1:43.85 3.72 8 7 Ana BritoClara Duarte 1:44.40 4.27 9 8 Callie LochMichelle Russell 1:47.14 7.01

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 6 Hermien PetersLize Broekx 1:41.54 2 5 Selma KonijnRuth Vorsselman 1:42.21 0.67 3 3 Neutral Athletes B Lizaveta VilkovaAlina Svita 1:43.31 1.77 4 1 Sara Corfixsen MilthersBolette Nyvang Iversen 1:43.69 2.15 5 4 Anja ApollonioMia Medved 1:45.33 3.79 6 2 Olga ShmelyovaTatyana Tokarnitskaya 1:45.83 4.29 7 7 Marija DostanicDunja Stanojev 1:46.43 4.89 8 9 Anezka PaloudovaZuzana Hanusova 1:46.44 4.9 9 8 Ekaterina ShubinaArina Tanatmisheva 1:49.95 8.41 Finals

The results of the finals were as follows: Women's K-2 500 m - Finals - Results

B final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 3 Anja ApollonioMia Medved 1:46.81 2 5 Sara Corfixsen MilthersBolette Nyvang Iversen 1:46.98 +0.17 3 4 Karina Alanis MoralesMaricela Montemayor Rodriguez 1:47.14 +0.33 4 8 Melina AnderssonJulia Lagerstam 1:47.15 +0.34 5 2 Brenda RojasMaria Magdalena Garro 1:47.68 +0.87 6 6 Bianka Vivien HoferFlora Tolgyesi 1:47.78 +0.97 7 1 Ana BritoClara Duarte 1:48.28 +1.47 8 7 Olga ShmelyovaTatyana Tokarnitskaya 1:48.65 +1.84 9 9 Marija DostanicDunja Stanojev 1:50.40 +3.59

A final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 5 Kailey HarlenNatalia Drobot 1:39.54 4 Shimeng YuMengdie Yin 1:41.19 +1.65 7 Paulina PaszekPauline Jagsch 1:41.20 +1.66 4 2 Lucrezia ZironiGiada Rossetti 1:42.14 +2.60 5 3 Hermien PetersLize Broekx 1:42.52 +2.98 6 8 Selma KonijnRuth Vorsselman 1:43.14 +3.60 7 6 Martyna KlattAnna Pulawska 1:43.23 +3.69 8 1 Neutral Athletes B Lizaveta VilkovaAlina Svita 1:44.56 +5.02 9 9 Estefania FernandezBegona Lazkano 1:45.21 +5.67

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