Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 500 metres

Canoeing at the
2000 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1men
C-2men
K-1menwomen
Sprint
C-1 500 mmen
C-1 1000 mmen
C-2 500 mmen
C-2 1000 mmen
K-1 500 mmenwomen
K-1 1000 mmen
K-2 500 mmenwomen
K-2 1000 mmen
K-4 500 mwomen
K-4 1000 mmen

The men's C-2 500 metres event was an open-style, pairs canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.

Medalists

Gold Gold Silver Silver Bronze Bronze
 Ferenc Novák
and Imre Pulai (HUN) 		 Daniel Jędraszko
and Paweł Baraszkiewicz (POL) 		 Mitică Pricop
and Florin Popescu (ROU)

Results

Heats

Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000

15 teams entered in two heats. The top three finishers from each heat advanced to the finals while the remaining teams were relegated to the semifinal.

Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1 Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz  Poland 1:41.511 QF
2 Serhiy Klyniuk and Dmytro Sablin  Ukraine 1:42.903 QF
3 Christian Gille and Thomas Zereske  Germany 1:43.233 QF
4 Petr Procházka and Jan Břečka  Czech Republic 1:44.175 QS
5 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató  Spain 1:44.973 QS
6 Nikica Ljubek and Dražen Funtak  Croatia 1:45.567 QS
7 José Ramón Ferrer and José Antonio Romero  Mexico 1:45.927 QS
8 Attila Buday and Tamás Buday, Jr.  Canada 1:46.557 QS


Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1 Mitică Pricop and Florin Popescu  Romania 1:41.904 QF
2 Ibrahim Rojas and Leobaldo Pereira  Cuba 1:42.180 QF
3 Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai  Hungary 1:42.816 QF
4 Zhomart Satubaldin and Konstantin Negodyayev  Kazakhstan 1:45.810 QS
5 Andrew Train and Stephen Train  Great Britain 1:46.986 QS
6 Aleksandr Kovalyov and Aleksandr Kostoglod  Russia 1:47.682 QS
7 Ján Kubica and Mário Ostrćil  Slovakia 1:47.934 QS

Semifinal

Date: Friday 29 September 2000

The top three finishers from the semifinal advanced to the final.

Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1 Aleksandr Kovalyov and Aleksandr Kostoglod  Russia 1:44.981 QF
2 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató  Spain 1:45.677 QF
3 Zhomart Satubaldin and Konstantin Negodyayev  Kazakhstan 1:45.809 QF
4 Petr Procházka and Jan Břečka  Czech Republic 1:46.013
5 José Ramón Ferrer and José Antonio Romero  Mexico 1:46.811
6 Nikica Ljubek and Dražen Funtak  Croatia 1:46.955
7 Attila Buday and Tamás Buday, Jr.  Canada 1:47.525
8 Ján Kubica and Mário Ostrćil  Slovakia 1:48.749
9 Andrew Train and Stephen Train  Great Britain 1:49.931

Final

Date: Sunday 1 October 2000

Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai  Hungary 1:51.284
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz  Poland 1:51.536
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mitică Pricop and Florin Popescu  Romania 1:54.260
4 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató  Spain 1:56.600
5 Christian Gille and Thomas Zereske  Germany 1:59.294
6 Aleksandr Kovalyov and Aleksandr Kostoglod  Russia 2:00.134
7 Zhomart Satubaldin and Konstantin Negodyayev  Kazakhstan 2:01.436
8 Serhiy Klyniuk and Dmytro Sablin  Ukraine 2:02.612
9 Ibrahim Rojas and Leobaldo Pereira  Cuba 2:17.126

Pulai and Novák were known as "The Monster and the Little Guy" because Pulai was 1.99 meters (6 ft. 6.25 in.) tall and weighed 97 kg (214 lbs) while Novák was 1.72 meters (5 ft. 8 in.) and weighed 77 kg (170 lbs). Pulai taped Novák's leg to the boat so that his partner would not fall to the strong winds blowing on the day of the final.

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