2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's C-2 500 metres

Men's C-2 500 metres at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	25–26 August
Competitors	34 from 17 nations
Winning time	1:40.043
Medalists
Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz    Brazil   Viktor Melantyev Vladislav Chebotar    Russia   Arsen Śliwiński Michał Lubniewski    Poland

2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canadian events
C-1 200m	men	women
C-1 500m	men	women
C-1 1000m	men
C-1 5000m	men	women
C-2 200m	men	women
C-2 500m	men	women
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 500m	men
Kayak events
K-1 200m	men	women
K-1 500m	men	women
K-1 1000m	men	women
K-1 5000m	men	women
K-2 200m	men	women
K-2 500m	men	women
K-2 1000m	men	women
K-4 500m	men	women
K-4 1000m	men
Paracanoe events
KL1	men	women
KL2	men	women
KL3	men	women
VL1	men	women
VL2	men	women
VL3	men	women

The men's C-2 500 metres competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.^[1]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Heats

The fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.^[3][4]

Heat 1

Rank	Canoeists	Country	Time	Notes
1	Arsen Śliwiński Michał Lubniewski	Poland	1:46.335	QF
2	Viktor Melantyev Vladislav Chebotar	Russia	1:46.755	QF
3	Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk	Ukraine	1:47.122	QF
4	Sergio Vallejo Adrián Sieiro	Spain	1:48.605	QS
5	Roland Varga Connor Fitzpatrick	Canada	1:48.682	QS
6	Yul Oeltze Peter Kretschmer	Germany	1:49.038	QS
7	Siarhei Pryvolkin Evgeniy Tenhel	Belarus	1:49.148	QS
8	Petr Fuksa Martin Fuksa	Czech Republic	1:50.505	qS
9	Aoto Yabu Masato Hashimoto	Japan	1:54.349

Heat 2

Rank	Canoeists	Country	Time	Notes
1	Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz	Brazil	1:44.718	QF
2	Jonatán Hajdu Ádám Fekete	Hungary	1:47.255	QF
3	Leonid Carp Victor Mihalachi	Romania	1:47.928	QF
4	Ilie Sprincean Oleg Nuţa	Moldova	1:52.005	QS
5	Osvaldas Murza Jevgenij Kuracionok	Lithuania	1:53.332	QS
6	Nicolae Craciun Sergiu Craciun	Italy	1:56.379	QS
7	Bruno Afonso Marco Apura	Portugal	2:01.062	QS
8	Nordino Mussa Joaquim Lobo	Mozambique	2:13.432

Semifinal

The fastest three boats advanced to the final.^[5]

Rank	Canoeists	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yul Oeltze Peter Kretschmer	Germany	1:44.817	QF
2	Sergio Vallejo Adrián Sieiro	Spain	1:45.124	QF
3	Ilie Sprincean Oleg Nuţa	Moldova	1:45.341	QF
4	Nicolae Craciun Sergiu Craciun	Italy	1:45.941
5	Petr Fuksa Martin Fuksa	Czech Republic	1:46.471
6	Bruno Afonso Marco Apura	Portugal	1:47.151
7	Roland Varga Connor Fitzpatrick	Canada	1:48.268
8	Osvaldas Murza Jevgenij Kuracionok	Lithuania	1:48.931
9	Siarhei Pryvolkin Evgeniy Tenhel	Belarus	1:49.131

Final

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[6]

Rank	Canoeists	Country	Time
	Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz	Brazil	1:40.043
	Viktor Melantyev Vladislav Chebotar	Russia	1:41.590
	Arsen Śliwiński Michał Lubniewski	Poland	1:41.787
4	Sergio Vallejo Adrián Sieiro	Spain	1:41.830
5	Yul Oeltze Peter Kretschmer	Germany	1:41.997
6	Jonatán Hajdu Ádám Fekete	Hungary	1:42.047
7	Leonid Carp Victor Mihalachi	Romania	1:42.650
8	Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk	Ukraine	1:43.300
9	Ilie Sprincean Oleg Nuţa	Moldova	1:43.917

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