2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 200 metres

The men's K-2 200 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]

Men's K-2 200 metres at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	23–25 August
Competitors	34 from 17 nations
Winning time	31.873
Medalists
Márk Balaska Balázs Birkás    Hungary   Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro    Spain   Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković    Serbia

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:[2]

Date	Time	Round
Thursday 23 August 2018	14:40	Heats
	16:15	Semifinal
Saturday 25 August 2018	12:57	Final

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	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kirill Lyapunov Alexander Dyachenko	Russia	32.000	QF
2	Márk Balaska Balázs Birkás	Hungary	32.070	QF
3	Edvinas Ramanauskas Ignas Navakauskas	Lithuania	32.390	QF
4	Riccardo Maria Spotti Andrea di Liberto	Italy	32.675	QS
5	Franck Le Moël Francis Mouget	France	32.875	QS
6	Kevin Santos Hugo Figueiras	Portugal	34.725	QS
7	Vitalii Brezitskyi Vasyl Chedryk	Ukraine	35.900	QS
8	Abdelmajid Jabbour Ossama Bousserra	Morocco	40.205

Heat 2

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro	Spain	32.203	QF
2	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	32.313	QF
3	Paweł Kaczmarek Piotr Mazur	Poland	33.038	QF
4	Filip Šváb Ondřej Bišický	Czech Republic	33.533	QS
5	Mark de Jonge Alex Scott	Canada	33.838	QS
6	Nicholas Weeks David Rodrigues	South Africa	33.883	QS
7	Trevor Thomson Stelian Naftanaila	Great Britain	34.053	QS
8	Theodor Orban David Johansson	Sweden	34.438	qS
9	Edvards Ceipe Kristofers Lamberts	Latvia	34.588

Semifinal

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Franck Le Moël Francis Mouget	France	33.530	QF
2	Riccardo Maria Spotti Andrea di Liberto	Italy	33.540	QF
3	Filip Šváb Ondřej Bišický	Czech Republic	34.385	QF
4	Nicholas Weeks David Rodrigues	South Africa	34.715
5	Theodor Orban David Johansson	Sweden	34.730
6	Mark de Jonge Alex Scott	Canada	34.895
7	Trevor Thomson Stelian Naftanaila	Great Britain	34.905
8	Kevin Santos Hugo Figueiras	Portugal	35.975
9	Vitalii Brezitskyi Vasyl Chedryk	Ukraine	37.460

Final

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Márk Balaska Balázs Birkás	Hungary	31.873
	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro	Spain	32.133
	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	32.156
4	Kirill Lyapunov Alexander Dyachenko	Russia	32.233
5	Paweł Kaczmarek Piotr Mazur	Poland	32.753
6	Edvinas Ramanauskas Ignas Navakauskas	Lithuania	32.790
7	Riccardo Maria Spotti Andrea di Liberto	Italy	32.823
8	Filip Šváb Ondřej Bišický	Czech Republic	33.136
9	Franck Le Moël Francis Mouget	France	33.213

References

1. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | How to get here". Federação Portuguesa de Canoagem. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
2. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | TIME TABLE & RESULTS". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
3. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | K2 Men 200m - 1st Heat". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
4. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | K2 Men 200m - 2nd Heat". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
5. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | K2 Men 200m - 1st Semi-final". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
6. "2018 ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | K2 Men 200m - Final A". CANOE SPRINT PORTUGAL. Retrieved 23 August 2018.