The men's VL2 competition at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg took place at Sportpark Duisburg.
Schedule The schedule was as follows: Date Time Round Wednesday 23 August 2023 15:40 Heats Thursday 24 August 2023 15:20 Semifinals Saturday 26 August 2023 8:50 Final B 11:41 Final A All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Results Heats Heat winners advanced directly to the A final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.
Heat 1 RankNameCountryTimeNotes 1Igor Alex Tofalini 51.727 2Higinio Rivero 54.236 3Mathieu St-Pierre 54.264 4Tamás Juhász 56.922 5Takanori Kato 1:02.718 6Santi Wantawee 1:04.843 7Moritz Berthold 1:17.233
Heat 2 RankNameCountryTimeNotes 1Fernando Rufino 52.579 2Róbert Suba 54.386 3Andrii Kryvchun 56.356 4Eslam Jahedi 57.504 5Anas Al Khalifa 1:01.032 6Miroslav Šperk 1:05.319 Heat 3 RankNameCountryTimeNotes 1Steven Haxton 53.301 2Norberto Mourão 54.173 3Edward Clifton 55.774 4Marius-Bogdan Ciustea 1:00.355 5Gajendra Singh 1:03.621 6Yuta Takagi 1:06.652
Semifinals The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next four fastest boats in each semi and fastest eighth-placer advanced to the B final. Semifinal 1 RankNameCountryTimeNotes 1Higinio Rivero 53.437 2Andrii Kryvchun 54.383 3Edward Clifton 54.701 4Tamás Juhász 55.027 5Marius-Bogdan Ciustea 58.732 6Anas Al Khalifa 58.959 7Santi Wantawee 1:03.006 8Yuta Takagi 1:10.905
Semifinal 2 RankNameCountryTimeNotes 1Róbert Suba 52.175 2Norberto Mourão 53.012 3Mathieu St-Pierre 54.225 4Eslam Jahedi 55.613 5Miroslav Šperk 1:00.947 6Takanori Kato 1:02.950 7Gajendra Singh 1:04.283 8Moritz Berthold 1:16.392
Finals Final B Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18. RankCanoeistCountryTime 1Tamás Juhász 56.864 2Eslam Jahedi 57.149 3Marius-Bogdan Ciustea 59.092 4Anas Al Khalifa 1:00.531 5Miroslav Šperk 1:02.590 6Gajendra Singh 1:02.716 7Santi Wantawee 1:02.963 8Takanori Kato 1:05.667 9Yuta Takagi 1:08.001
Final A Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three. RankCanoeistCountryTime Fernando Rufino 50.344 Igor Alex Tofalini 51.229 Steven Haxton 52.089 4Róbert Suba 52.848 5Norberto Mourão 53.143 6Higinio Rivero 54.137 7Andrii Kryvchun 54.246 8Mathieu St-Pierre 54.411 9Edward Clifton 55.382
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