2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-2 500 metres

The men's K-2 500 metres competition at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań took place at Lake Malta.Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Bulletin 1

Schedule The schedule is as follows:Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Schedule Date Round Thursday 27 August 2026 Heats Saturday 29 August 2026 Semifinals Sunday 30 August 2026 Final B Final A

Record

The best performance previously in this discipline was:

World BestTimeNationAthletesVenue1:26.50 Bence NadasSandor Totka Plovdiv

Results

Heats The result of the round of heats was as follows:Men's K-2 500 m - Heats - Results, from ICF.

Qualification rule: First five boats in each heat (SF) and two fastest boats by time (qBT) advance to semifinal; remainder eliminated.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Levente KuruczBence Fodor 1:37.72 2 4 Jaroslaw KajdanekValerii Vichev 1:38.26 0.54 3 7 Arvid SodermanMartin Nathell 1:38.53 0.81 4 6 Enrique AdanCarlos Garcia Ruiz 1:39.13 1.41 5 3 Simone BernocchiTommaso Freschi 1:40.25 2.53 6 2 Dmitriy KholmogorovArtyom Terechshenko 1:42.89 5.17 7 8 Mauricio FigueroaDaniel Ledesma Alarcon 1:43.75 6.03 8 1 Panagiotis AntoniouChristos Matsas 1:44.58 6.86

Heat 2 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Joao RibeiroMessias Baptista 1:36.59 2 6 Gunnar Nydal EideLucas Roesten 1:37.00 0.41 3 4 Quilian KochFrancis Mouget 1:37.81 1.22 4 3 Matias Valentin Otero EzcurraLuis Santiago Melo Duarte 1:39.85 3.26 5 1 Vagner Junior SoutaFelipe Folador 1:40.22 3.63 6 7 Vasyl SmilkaOleksandr Zaitsev 1:40.27 3.68 7 8 Nevo KleinmanAran Benyosef 1:42.35 5.76 8 2 Cole JonesFinn Connell 1:45.58 8.99

Heat 3 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Jacob SchopfMax Lemke 1:35.44 2 3 Neutral Athletes A Uladzislau LitvinauDzmitry Natynchyk 1:36.45 1.01 3 7 Neutral Athletes B Artem KorovinGeorgii Vaniashov 1:36.87 1.43 4 6 Bram SikkensArtuur Peters 1:37.71 2.27 5 4 Simonas MaldonisAndrej Olijnik 1:38.39 2.95 6 8 Ziyodbek YuldashalievSamandar Khaydarov 1:41.48 6.04 7 1 Ahmed Sameer Jumaah FarisSulaiman Ahmed Saeed Al-Samarraie 1:44.92 9.48 8 2 Brandon Wei Cheng OoiAlden Ler 1:45.36 9.92

Heat 4 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Samuel BalazAdam Botek 1:38.25 2 4 Jakub SpicarDaniel Havel 1:39.43 1.18 3 6 Simon Schuldt HeinMorten Graversen 1:39.90 1.65 4 3 Fengwei LiangWeiyang Chen 1:41.40 3.15 5 2 Mathieu GilbertHarris Hunter 1:42.35 4.10 6 7 Daniel KarakolevTeodor Asenov 1:42.63 4.38 7 8 Anas Ben ChaabeneMohamed Mehdi El Ghali 2:01.84 23.59 – 1 Dede SunandarWandi Wandi DNS -

Heat 5 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 3 Pierre Van Der WesthuyzenJean Van Der Westhuyzen 1:37.75 2 4 Zarko JakovljevicMarko Dragosavljevic 1:38.66 0.91 3 6 Aldis Arturs VildeRoberts Akmens 1:38.94 1.19 4 5 Matevz ManfredaAnze Pikon 1:39.43 1.68 5 7 Taha Erkam UstaMuhammet Emin Sulak 1:40.79 3.04 6 2 Fynn WyssAaron Schmitter 1:41.15 3.40 7 8 Lev LuninMaxim Rogut 1:43.94 6.19 8 1 Prasanna Kumar Chempadiyil SathyProhit Baroi 1:46.06 8.31

Semifinals The result of the semi finals were as follows:Men's K-2 500 m - Semi-finals - Results, from ICF.

Qualification rule: First three boats in each semifinal progress to A final (FA); next three boats advance to B final; remained advance to C final

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 1 Matevz ManfredaAnze Pikon 1:29.52 2 5 Joao RibeiroMessias Baptista 1:29.73 0.21 3 2 Enrique AdanCarlos Garcia Ruiz 1:30.99 1.47 4 4 Pierre Van Der WesthuyzenJean Van Der Westhuyzen 1:31.04 1.52 5 7 Simon Schuldt HeinMorten Graversen 1:31.88 2.36 6 3 Neutral Athletes A Uladzislau LitvinauDzmitry Natynchyk 1:32.73 3.21 7 9 Vagner Junior SoutaFelipe Folador 1:33.30 3.78 8 8 Fengwei LiangWeiyang Chen 1:33.92 4.4 - 6 Jaroslaw KajdanekValerii Vichev DNF

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Levente KuruczBence Fodor 1:30.83 2 4 Jakub SpicarDaniel Havel 1:31.41 0.58 3 2 Simone BernocchiTommaso Freschi 1:31.79 0.96 4 6 Zarko JakovljevicMarko Dragosavljevic 1:31.88 1.05 5 3 Neutral Athletes B Artem KorovinGeorgii Vaniashov 1:31.96 1.13 6 7 Matias Valentin Otero EzcurraLuis Santiago Melo Duarte 1:32.74 1.91 7 8 Simonas MaldonisAndrej Olijnik 1:32.78 1.95 8 9 Fynn WyssAaron Schmitter 1:33.54 2.71 9 1 Taha Erkam UstaMuhammet Emin Sulak 1:34.53 3.7

Semifinal 3 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Jacob SchopfMax Lemke 1:28.66 2 6 Gunnar Nydal EideLucas Roesten 1:29.69 1.03 3 8 Bram SikkensArtuur Peters 1:29.90 1.24 4 4 Samuel BalazAdam Botek 1:30.08 1.42 5 2 Aldis Arturs VildeRoberts Akmens 1:30.89 2.23 6 3 Arvid SodermanMartin Nathell 1:31.07 2.41 7 7 Quilian KochFrancis Mouget 1:31.44 2.78 8 1 Mathieu GilbertHarris Hunter 1:33.79 5.13 9 9 Vasyl SmilkaOleksandr Zaitsev 1:34.39 5.73

Finals The result of the final races were as follows:Men's K-2 500 m - Finals - Results, from ICF.

C final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time GapNotes 1 6 Quilian KochFrancis Mouget 1:32.56 2 3 Fengwei LiangWeiyang Chen 1:32.77 0.21 3 4 Simonas MaldonisAndrej Olijnik 1:33.21 0.65 4 9 Vasyl SmilkaOleksandr Zaitsev 1:34.25 1.69 5 5 Vagner Junior SoutaFelipe Folador 1:35.32 2.76 6 2 Mathieu GilbertHarris Hunter 1:35.55 2.99 7 7 Fynn WyssAaron Schmitter 1:35.71 3.15 8 1 Taha Erkam UstaMuhammet Emin Sulak 1:36.92 4.36

B final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time GapNotes 1 5 Pierre van der WesthuyzenJean van der Westhuyzen 1:31.76 2 4 Samuel BalazAdam Botek 1:32.23 0.47 3 3 Neutral Athletes A Artem KorovinGeorgii Vaniashov 1:32.27 0.51 4 7 Simon Schuldt HeinMorten Graversen 1:32.53 0.77 5 2 Neutral Athletes B Uladzislau LitvinauDzmitry Natynchyk 1:32.90 1.14 6 8 Aldis Arturs VildeRoberts Akmens 1:33.14 1.38 7 9 Arvid SodermanMartin Nathell 1:33.88 2.12 8 1 Matias Valentin Otero EzcurraLuis Santiago Melo Duarte 1:35.15 3.39 9 6 Zarko JakovljevicMarko Dragosavljevic 1:36.00 4.24

A final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time GapNotes 6 Jacob SchopfMax Lemke 1:27.57 3 Joao RibeiroMessias Baptista 1:29.29 1.72 7 Jakub SpicarDaniel Havel 1:29.94 2.37 4 4 Levente KuruczBence Fodor 1:30.22 2.65 5 2 Gunnar Nydal EideLucas Roesten 1:30.27 2.7 6 9 Bram SikkensArtuur Peters 1:30.74 3.17 7 5 Matevz ManfredaAnze Pikon 1:31.28 3.71 8 8 Enrique AdanCarlos Garcia Ruiz 1:32.00 4.43 9 1 Simone BernocchiTommaso Freschi 1:32.18 4.61

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