Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 200 metres

Men's canoe sprint K-2 200 metres at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Lagoa Stadium
Date	17–18 August 2016
Competitors	26 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	32.075
Medalists
Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro   Spain   Liam Heath Jon Schofield   Great Britain   Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas   Lithuania

Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of canoeists
Qualification
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 200 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 200 m		men		women
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 200 m		men
K-2 500 m				women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

The men's canoe sprint K-2 200 metres competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place between 17 and 18 August at Lagoa Stadium.^[1]

Format

The competition comprised heats, semifinals, and a final round. Heat winners advanced to the "A" final, with all other boats getting a second chance in the semifinals. The top three from each semifinal also advanced to the "A" final, and competed for medals. A placing "B" final was held for the other semifinalists.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-03:00)

Results

Heats

The best placed boat from each heat qualified for the finals, remainder went to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas	Lithuania	31.755	FA
2	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	31.776	SF
3	Maxime Beaumont Sébastien Jouve	France	31.855	SF
4	Ryan Cochrane Hugues Fournel	Canada	32.749	SF
5	Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva Gilvan Bitencourt Ribeiro	Brazil	33.021	SF
6	Daniel Bowker Jordan Wood	Australia	34.246	SF

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro	Spain	31.161	FA
2	Sandor Totka Péter Molnár	Hungary	31.438	SF
3	Liam Heath Jon Schofield	Great Britain	31.534	SF
4	Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe	Germany	31.572	SF
5	Sergii Tokarnytskyi Andrey Yerguchyov	Kazakhstan	33.807	SF
6	Choi Min-kyu Cho Gwang-hee	South Korea	33.825	SF
7	Alberto Ricchetti Mauro Crenna	Italy	34.000	SF

Semifinals

First three boats in each semifinal qualify for the "A" final, remainder go to the "B" final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sandor Totka Peter Molnar	Hungary	32.138	FA
2	Maxime Beaumont Sébastien Jouve	France	32.526	FA
3	Ryan Cochrane Hugues Fournel	Canada	33.494	FA
4	Choi Min-kyu Cho Gwang-hee	South Korea	33.767	FB
5	Sergii Tokarnytskyi Andrey Yerguchyov	Kazakhstan	35.151	FB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liam Heath Jon Schofield	Great Britain	31.899	FA
2	Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe	Germany	32.061	FA
3	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	32.513	FA
4	Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva Gilvan Bitencourt Ribeiro	Brazil	33.359	FB
5	Alberto Ricchetti Mauro Crenna	Italy	34.318	FB
6	Daniel Bowker Jordan Wood	Australia	34.845	FB

Finals

Final B

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Choi Min-kyu Cho Gwang-hee	South Korea	33.812
2	Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva Gilvan Bitencourt Ribeiro	Brazil	33.992
3	Daniel Bowker Jordan Wood	Australia	35.334
4	Sergii Tokarnytskyi Andrey Yerguchyov	Kazakhstan	35.427
5	Alberto Ricchetti Mauro Crenna	Italy	35.516

Final A

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
01 !	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro	Spain	32.075
02 !	Liam Heath Jon Schofield	Great Britain	32.368
03 !	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas	Lithuania	32.382
4	Sandor Totka Péter Molnár	Hungary	32.412
5	Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe	Germany	32.488
6	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	32.656
7	Maxime Beaumont Sébastien Jouve	France	32.699
8	Ryan Cochrane Hugues Fournel	Canada	33.767

References