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Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

These are the results of the men's C-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoes.

Medalists

Gold	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun China (CHN)
Silver	Ibrahim Rojas and Ledis Balceiro Cuba (CUB)
Bronze	Alexander Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov Russia (RUS)

Heats

The 14 teams first raced in two heats on August 24. The top three finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the final, and the remaining 8 teams moved on to the semifinal.

Heat 1
1.	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)	1:40.128	QF
2.	Attila Buday and Tamas Buday Jr. (CAN)	1:40.488	QF
3.	Paweł Baraszkiewicz and Daniel Jędraszko (POL)	1:40.524	QF
4.	György Kozmann and György Kolonics (HUN)	1:41.324	QS
5.	Maksym Prokopenko and Ruslan Dzhalilov (UKR)	1:44.532	QS
6.	Peter Pales and Daniel Biksadsky (SVK)	1:45.860	QS
7.	Jordan Malloch and Nathan Johnson (USA)	1:48.172	QS
Heat 2
1.	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun (CHN)	1:38.916	QF
2.	Ibrahim Rojas and Ledis Balceiro (CUB)	1:39.860	QF
3.	Alexander Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov (RUS)	1:40.128	QF
4.	Silviu Simioncencu and Florin Popescu (ROU)	1:41.368	QS
5.	Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (BLR)	1:41.576	QS
6.	Alfredo Bea and David Mascato (ESP)	1:43.708	QS
7.	Yannick Lavigne and Jose Lenoir (FRA)	1:49.940	QS

Semifinal

The top three finishers in the semifinal (raced on August 26) advanced to the final, joining the six teams who had moved directly from the heats. All other teams were eliminated.

1.	Silviu Simioncencu and Florin Popescu (ROU)	1:41.424	QF
2.	György Kozmann and György Kolonics (HUN)	1:41.472	QF
3.	Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (BLR)	1:42.484	QF
4.	Maksym Prokopenko and Ruslan Dzhalilov (UKR)	1:42.860
5.	Alfredo Bea and David Mascato (ESP)	1:43.160
6.	Peter Pales and Daniel Biksadsky (SVK)	1:44.732
7.	Yannick Lavigne and Jose Lenoir (FRA)	1:45.548
8.	Jordan Malloch and Nathan Johnson (USA)	1:46.424

Final

The final was held on August 28.

	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun (CHN)	1:40.278
	Ibrahim Rojas and Ledis Balceiro (CUB)	1:40.350
	Alexander Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov (RUS)	1:40.442
4.	Silviu Simioncencu and Florin Popescu (ROU)	1:40.618
5.	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)	1:40.802
6.	Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (BLR)	1:40.858
7.	György Kozmann and György Kolonics (HUN)	1:41.138
8.	Attila Buday and Tamas Buday Jr. (CAN)	1:41.210
9.	Paweł Baraszkiewicz and Daniel Jędraszko (POL)	1:42.046

The Chinese duo had just won their first World Cup races weeks earlier and were only looking to gain experience for the next Summer Olympics in Beijing. The race was so close that race officials could not determine the winners until most of the canoers were out of their boats and the canoes were on the dock.

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (English), (French), & (Greek)
• Sports-reference.com 2004 C-2 500 m results.
• Wallechinsky, David and Jamie Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Pairs 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 482.
• Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results