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

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

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

Results

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Heats

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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

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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

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Date: Sunday 1 October 2000

Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
  Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai   Hungary 1:51.284
  Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz   Poland 1:51.536
  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.

References

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