The women's canoe sprint K-2 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 7 and 9 August at Eton Dorney.

Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze, representing Germany, won the gold medal. Hungary's Katalin Kovács and Natasa Dusev-Janics took silver and the bronze medal was won by Karolina Naja and Beata Mikołajczyk from Poland.

Competition format The competition comprised heats, semi-finals, and a final round. The top five boats from each heat, and the fastest loser, advanced to the semi-finals. The top four boats in each semi-final advanced to the "A" final, and competed for medals. A placing "B" final was held for the other semi-finalists.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) Date Time RoundTuesday 7 August 2012 10:2811:30 HeatsSemi-finalsThursday 9 August 2012 10:35Finals

Results

Heats The five fastest boats and the best-timed loser qualified to the semi-finals.

Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Josefin NordlöwKarin Johansson 1:44.437Q2 Natalia LobovaVera Sobetova 1:45.710Q3 Iuliana PaleuIrina Lauric 1:46.001Q4 Naomi FloodLyndsie Fogarty 1:46.554Q5 Abigail EdmondsLouisa Sawers 1:46.564Q6 Yulitza MenesesDayexi Gandarela 1:46.587q

Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Wu YananZhou Yu 1:43.448Q2 Franziska WeberTina Dietze 1:44.195Q3 Nikolina MoldovanOlivera Moldovan 1:44.335Q4 Volha KhudzenkaMaryna Pautaran 1:44.568Q5 Ivana KmeťováMartina Kohlová 1:45.073Q6 Shinobu KitamotoAsumi Ohmura 1:47.323

Heat 3 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Katalin KovácsNatasa Dusev-Janics 1:43.984Q2 Joana VasconcelosBeatriz Gomes 1:44.660Q3 Lisa CarringtonErin Taylor 1:44.870Q4 Yvonne SchuringViktoria Schwarz 1:46.374Q5 Karolina NajaBeata Mikołajczyk 1:48.271Q

Semifinals The fastest four canoeists in each semi-final qualified for the 'A' final. The slowest four qualified for the placing 'B' final.

Semifinal 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Franziska WeberTina Dietze 1:41.543Q2 Katalin KovácsNatasa Dusev-Janics 1:41.613Q3 Karolina NajaBeata Mikołajczyk 1:41.873Q4 Lisa CarringtonErin Taylor 1:42.764Q5 Volha KhudzenkaMaryna Pautaran 1:43.1526 Josefin NordlöwKarin Johansson 1:44.0257 Abigail EdmondsLouisa Sawers 1:46.0258 Iuliana PaleuIrina Lauric 1:49.216

Semifinal 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Wu YananZhou Yu 1:41.863Q2 Yvonne SchuringViktoria Schwarz 1:42.317Q3 Joana VasconcelosBeatriz Gomes 1:43.305Q4 Nikolina MoldovanOlivera Moldovan 1:43.586Q5 Ivana KmeťováMartina Kohlová 1:43.6536 Natalia LobovaVera Sobetova 1:44.6607 Naomi FloodLyndsie Fogarty 1:45.3728 Yulitza MenesesDayexi Gandarela 1:51.428

Finals

Final B RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Volha KhudzenkaMaryna Pautaran 1:44.4072 Josefin NordlöwKarin Johansson 1:45.3673 Abigail EdmondsLouisa Sawers 1:46.3414 Naomi FloodLyndsie Fogarty 1:47.6505 Ivana KmeťováMartina Kohlová 1:47.6836 Yulitza MenesesDayexi Gandarela 1:50.1247 Natalia LobovaVera Sobetova 1:52.2778 Iuliana PaleuIrina Lauric 1:52.468

Final A RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes Franziska WeberTina Dietze 1:42.213 Katalin KovácsNatasa Dusev-Janics 1:43.278 Karolina NajaBeata Mikołajczyk 1:44.0004 Wu YananZhou Yu 1:44.1365 Yvonne SchuringViktoria Schwarz 1:44.7856 Joana VasconcelosBeatriz Gomes 1:44.9247 Lisa CarringtonErin Taylor 1:46.2908 Nikolina MoldovanOlivera Moldovan 1:48.941

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