The women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 6 and 8 August at Eton Dorney.
Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács and Krisztina Fazekas Zur, representing Hungary, won the gold medal. Germany's team won silver and Belarus took the bronze.
Competition format
The competition comprised three heats, a semi-finals, and a final. The first boat and second-best in each heat qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-final where the top five boats then qualified for the final.
Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) Date Time RoundMonday 6 August 2012 10:3911:51 HeatsSemi-finalsWednesday 8 August 2012 10:44Finals
Results
Heats The first boat from each heat and the fastest runner-up qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-finals.
Heat 1 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Gabriella SzabóDanuta KozákKatalin KovácsKrisztina Fazekas Zur 1:35.769Q2 Jess WalkerRachel CawthornAngela HannahLouisa Sawers 1:37.3553 Marie Delattre-DemoryJoanne MayerSarah GuyotGabrielle Tuleu 1:40.0224 Yu LameiLi ZhangliRen WenjunLiu Haiping 1:40.6615 Antonia Horvat-PandaAntonija NađRenata Major-KubikMarta Tibor 1:40.7566 Rach LovellHannah DavisJo Brigden-JonesLyndsie Fogarty 1:41.794
Heat 2 RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Carolin LeonhardtFranziska WeberKatrin Wagner-AugustinTina Dietze 1:31.633Q2 Teresa PortelaJoana VasconcelosBeatriz GomesHelena Rodrigues 1:32.785Q3 Iryna PamialovaNadzeya PapokVolha KhudzenkaMaryna Pautaran 1:33.6764 Yuliana SalakhovaVera SobetovaNatalia PodolskayaYulia Kachalova 1:33.6805 Marta WalczykiewiczAneta KoniecznaKarolina NajaBeata Mikołajczyk 1:35.843
Semifinal The top five boats qualified for the final.
RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes1 Marta WalczykiewiczAneta KoniecznaKarolina NajaBeata Mikołajczyk 1:30.338Q, WB2 Iryna PamialovaNadzeya PapokVolha KhudzenkaMaryna Pautaran 1:30.883Q3 Yuliana SalakhovaVera SobetovaNatalia PodolskayaYulia Kachalova 1:31.824Q4 Jess WalkerRachel CawthornAngela HannahLouisa Sawers 1:32.550Q5 Marie Delattre-DemoryJoanne MayerSarah GuyotGabrielle Tuleu 1:33.303Q6 Rach LovellHannah DavisJo Brigden-JonesLyndsie Fogarty 1:33.6717 Antonia Horvat-PandaAntonija NađRenata Major-KubikMarta Tibor 1:33.8238 Yu LameiLi ZhangliRen WenjunLiu Haiping 1:34.004
Final RankCanoerCountryTime Gabriella SzabóDanuta KozákKatalin KovácsKrisztina Fazekas Zur 1:30.827 Carolin LeonhardtFranziska WeberKatrin Wagner-AugustinTina Dietze 1:31.298 Iryna PamialovaNadzeya PapokVolha KhudzenkaMaryna Pautaran 1:31.4004 Marta WalczykiewiczAneta KoniecznaKarolina NajaBeata Mikołajczyk 1:31.6075 Jess WalkerRachel CawthornAngela HannahLouisa Sawers 1:33.0556 Teresa PortelaJoana VasconcelosBeatriz GomesHelena Rodrigues 1:33.4537 Yuliana SalakhovaVera SobetovaNatalia PodolskayaYulia Kachalova 1:33.4598 Marie Delattre-DemoryJoanne MayerSarah GuyotGabrielle Tuleu 1:35.299
After winning three straight Olympic silvers in this event, Kovacs finally won her gold, beating out the German team led by Wagner-Augustin, who had won three straight Olympic golds in this event.
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