2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Women's C-2 500 metres

Heat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.[3]

Qualification was as follows:

The fastest four boats in the first semi advanced to the A final as two boats were tied for third place. The fastest three boats in the second semi also advanced to the A final.
The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.[5]

Competitors in this final raced for positions 11 to 19.[6]

Rank	Canoeists	Country	Time
1	Riska Andriyani Putri Wahyuni	Indonesia	2:09.224
2	Iwona Czarnecka Magda Stanny	Poland	2:09.741
3	Valentina Postariu Alexandra Dragomirescu	Romania	2:10.530
4	Lissette Espinoza Anggie Avegno	Ecuador	2:10.947
5	Bethany Gill Afton Fitzhenry	Great Britain	2:12.502
6	Lucia Valová Hana Mikéciová	Slovakia	2:13.185
7	Márcia Faria Beatriz Barros	Portugal	2:20.413
8	Wang Aorong Shi Shuyi	China	2:20.785
9	Rajeshwari Kushram Meera Das	India	2:24.613

Competitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 10, with medals going to the top three.[7]

Rank	Canoeists	Country	Time	Notes
	Katie Vincent Laurence Vincent-Lapointe	Canada	1:56.752	WB
	Irina Andreeva Olesia Romasenko	Russia	1:57.264
	Alena Nazdrova Kamila Bobr	Belarus	1:57.858
4	Virág Balla Kincső Takács	Hungary	1:58.802
5	Eugénie Dorange Julie Cailleretz	France	2:02.891
6	Andrea Santos de Oliveira Andrea Aparecida Elias da Silva	Brazil	2:04.102
7	Ophelia Preller Annika Loske	Germany	2:04.547
8	Adriana Paniagua Patricia Coco	Spain	2:04.680
9	Lenka Součková Jana Ježová	Czech Republic	2:05.791
10	Sayako Shimazu Manaka Kubota	Japan	2:05.997