2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres

Men's K-2 500 metres at the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Lake Banook
Location	Dartmouth, Canada
Dates	4–7 August
Competitors	58 from 29 nations
Winning time	1:34.98
Medalists
Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz    Hungary   Mindaugas Maldonis Andrejus Olijnikas    Lithuania   Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green    Australia
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2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canadian events
C-1 200m	men	women
C-1 500m	men	women
C-1 1000m	men	women
C-1 5000m	men	women
C-2 200m		women
C-2 500m	men	women
	mixed
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 500m	men	women
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		women
K-2 500m	men	women
	mixed
K-2 1000m	men
K-4 500m	men	women
Paracanoe events
KL1	men	women
KL2	men	women
KL3	men	women
VL1	men	women
VL2	men	women
VL3	men	women
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The men's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth took place on Lake Banook.^[1]

The schedule is as follows:^[2][3]

The six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest seventh-place boats advanced to the semifinals.^[4][5][6][7]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Felix Frank Moritz Florstedt	Germany	1:37.23	QS
2	Zhang Dong Wang Chi	China	1:38.93	QS
3	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrejus Olijnikas	Lithuania	1:39.00	QS
4	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:39.94	QS
5	Dennis Kernen Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:41.14	QS
6	Roi Rodríguez Carlos Pérez	Spain	1:43.10	QS
7	Alberto Fragoza José Alcazar	Mexico	1:47.00	qS

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Oleh Kukharyk Ihor Trunov	Ukraine	1:36.52	QS
2	Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	Czech Republic	1:37.52	QS
3	Erik Vlček Adam Botek	Slovakia	1:37.72	QS
4	Alessandro Gnecchi Andrea Di Liberto	Italy	1:38.23	QS
5	Erick Verdier Sebastian Delgado	Uruguay	1:42.43	QS
6	Akihiro Inoue Iori Miura	Japan	1:42.92	QS
7	Weng Wen-sen Lin Yung-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:43.79	qS

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	João Ribeiro Messias Baptista	Portugal	1:36.96	QS
2	Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:37.65	QS
3	René Poulsen Victor Aasmul	Denmark	1:38.30	QS
4	Jonas Ecker Aaron Small	United States	1:39.30	QS
5	Max Brown Kurtis Imrie	New Zealand	1:41.02	QS
6	Eetu Kolehmainen Jeremy Hakala	Finland	1:45.39	QS
7	Guang Teo Brandon Ooi	Singapore	1:47.81	qS

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green	Australia	1:38.53	QS
2	Pierre-Luc Poulin Simon McTavish	Canada	1:39.59	QS
3	Aldis Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:39.69	QS
4	Jakub Stepun Bartosz Grabowski	Poland	1:39.73	QS
5	Gonzalo Benassi Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:41.52	QS
6	Vid Debeljak Rok Šmit	Slovenia	1:47.11	QS
7	Rodrigo González Christian Colón	Puerto Rico	2:11.91
	Matthew Robinson Nicolas Robinson	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

Qualification in each semi was as follows:

The fastest three boats advanced to the A final.
The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.^[8][9][10]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green	Australia	1:34.04	QA
2	Oleh Kukharyk Ihor Trunov	Ukraine	1:34.66	QA
3	Jonas Ecker Aaron Small	United States	1:35.07	QA
4	René Poulsen Victor Aasmul	Denmark	1:35.81	QB
5	Gonzalo Benassi Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:36.03	QB
6	Zhang Dong Wang Chi	China	1:36.33	QB
7	Roi Rodríguez Carlos Pérez	Spain	1:38.00
8	Akihiro Inoue Iori Miura	Japan	1:42.07
9	Weng Wen-sen Lin Yung-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:44.38

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	João Ribeiro Messias Baptista	Portugal	1:33.95	QA
2	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrejus Olijnikas	Lithuania	1:34.09	QA
3	Erik Vlček Adam Botek	Slovakia	1:34.69	QA
4	Jakub Stepun Bartosz Grabowski	Poland	1:35.22	QB
5	Pierre-Luc Poulin Simon McTavish	Canada	1:35.30	QB
6	Alessandro Gnecchi Andrea Di Liberto	Italy	1:36.05	QB
7	Dennis Kernen Martin Nathell	Sweden	1:37.57
8	Eetu Kolehmainen Jeremy Hakala	Finland	1:40.14
9	Alberto Fragoza José Alcazar	Mexico	1:42.55

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:34.51	QA
2	Felix Frank Moritz Florstedt	Germany	1:34.57	QA
3	Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	Czech Republic	1:34.82	QA
4	Aldis Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:35.13	QB
5	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:35.92	QB
6	Max Brown Kurtis Imrie	New Zealand	1:36.99	QB
7	Erick Verdier Sebastian Delgado	Uruguay	1:40.61
8	Vid Debeljak Rok Šmit	Slovenia	1:40.68
9	Guang Teo Brandon Ooi	Singapore	1:44.43

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.^[11]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time
1	Pierre-Luc Poulin Simon McTavish	Canada	1:35.06
2	René Poulsen Victor Aasmul	Denmark	1:35.62
3	Jakub Stepun Bartosz Grabowski	Poland	1:35.79
4	Alessandro Gnecchi Andrea Di Liberto	Italy	1:36.32
5	Aldis Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs	Latvia	1:36.36
6	Gonzalo Benassi Gonzalo Carreras	Argentina	1:36.45
7	Bram Sikkens Artuur Peters	Belgium	1:36.46
8	Zhang Dong Wang Chi	China	1:36.61
9	Max Brown Kurtis Imrie	New Zealand	1:37.60

Competitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[12]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time
	Bence Nádas Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	1:34.98
	Mindaugas Maldonis Andrejus Olijnikas	Lithuania	1:35.56
	Jean van der Westhuyzen Thomas Green	Australia	1:35.85
4	Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	Czech Republic	1:35.99
5	João Ribeiro Messias Baptista	Portugal	1:37.42
6	Oleh Kukharyk Ihor Trunov	Ukraine	1:37.53
7	Jonas Ecker Aaron Small	United States	1:37.60
8	Felix Frank Moritz Florstedt	Germany	1:37.85
9	Erik Vlček Adam Botek	Slovakia	1:39.63