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Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres

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The men's K-2 1000 metres event was a pairs kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson (SWE)	Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb (HUN)

Results

Heats

18 crews entered in two heats. The top three finishers from both heats advanced directly to the finals. Fourth through seventh-place finishers in each heat along with the fastest eighth-place finisher advanced to the semifinal.

More information Heat 1 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000, Place ...

Heat 1 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Place	Overall	Nation	Athletes	Time	Qual.
1	2	Italy	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi	3:14.316	QF
2	5	Sweden	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson	3:15.102	QF
3	8	Slovakia	Juraj Bača and Michal Riszdorfer	3:16.854	QF
4	11	Great Britain	Paul Darby-Dowman and Ross Sabberton	3:19.392	QS
5	12	Czech Republic	Jan Souček and Jan Andrlik	3:20.760	QS
6	14	Australia	Brian Morton and Luke Young	3:20.934	QS
7	15	Brazil	Sebastián Cuattrin and Carlos Campos	3:21.228	QS
8	16	Bulgaria	Marian Dimitrov and Dimitar Ivanov	3:23.646
9	18	Argentina	Fernando Redondo and Abelardo Sztrum	3:24.324

More information Heat 2 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000, Place ...

Heat 2 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Place	Overall	Nation	Athletes	Time	Qual.
1	1	Hungary	Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb	3:13.677	QF
2	3	Germany	Andreas Ihle and Olaf Winter	3:14.631	QF
3	4	France	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb and Philippe Aubertin	3:14.835	QF
4	6	Norway	Eirik Verås Larsen and Nils Olav Fjeldheim	3:15.483	QS
5	8	Poland	Marek Twardowski and Adam Wysocki	3:15.909	QS
6	9	Denmark	Paw Madsen and Jesper Staal	3:16.989	QS
7	10	Russia	Yevgeny Salakhov and Oleg Gorobiy	3:17.067	QS
8	13	Israel	Rami Zur and Ro'l Yellin	3:20.913	QS
9	18	United States	Philippe Boccara and Cliff Meidl	3:26.439

Overall Results Heats

More information Heats Overall Results, Place ...

Heats Overall Results
Place	Athlete	Nation	Heat	Place	Time	Qual.
1	Hungary	Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb	2	1	3:13.677	QF
2	Italy	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi	1	1	3:14.316	QF
3	Germany	Andreas Ihle and Olaf Winter	2	3	3:14.631	QF
4	France	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb and Philippe Aubertin	2	3	3:14.835	QF
5	Sweden	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson	1	2	3:15.102	QF
6	Norway	Eirik Verås Larsen and Nils Olav Fjeldheim	2	4	3:15.483	QS
7	Poland	Marek Twardowski and Adam Wysocki	2	5	3:15.909	QS
8	Slovakia	Juraj Bača and Michal Riszdorfer	1	3	3:16.854	QF
9	Denmark	Paw Madsen and Jesper Staal	2	6	3:16.989	QS
10	Russia	Yevgeny Salakhov and Oleg Gorobiy	2	7	3:17.067	QS
11	Great Britain	Paul Darby-Dowman and Ross Sabberton	1	4	3:19.392	QS
12	Czech Republic	Jan Souček and Jan Andrlik	1	5	3:20.760	QS
13	Israel	Rami Zur and Ro'l Yellin	2	8	3:20.913	QS
14	Australia	Brian Morton and Luke Young	1	6	3:20.934	QS
15	Brazil	Sebastián Cuattrin and Carlos Campos	1	7	3:21.228	QS
16	Bulgaria	Marian Dimitrov and Dimitar Ivanov	1	8	3:23.646
17	Argentina	Fernando Redondo and Abelardo Sztrum	1	9	3:24.324
18	United States	Philippe Boccara and Cliff Meidl	2	9	3:26.439

Semifinal

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

More information Heat 1 of 1 Date: Thursday 28 September 2000, Place ...

Heat 1 of 1 Date: Thursday 28 September 2000
Place	Nation	Athletes	Time	Qual.
1	Russia	Yevgeny Salakhov and Oleg Gorobiy	3:17.114	QF
2	Norway	Eirik Verås Larsen and Nils Olav Fjeldheim	3:17.288	QF
3	Poland	Marek Twardowski and Adam Wysocki	3:18.026	QF
4	Denmark	Paw Madsen and Jesper Staal	3:18.206
5	Great Britain	Paul Darby-Dowman and Ross Sabberton	3:19.826
6	Brazil	Sebastián Cuattrin and Carlos Campos	3:22.496
7	Israel	Rami Zur and Ro'l Yellin	3:22.634
8	Australia	Brian Morton and Luke Young	3:25.046
	Czech Republic	Jan Souček and Jan Andrlik	DISQ

The Czech Republic's reason for disqualification was not disclosed in the official report.

Final

More information Heat 1 of 1 Date: Saturday 30 September 2000, Place ...

Heat 1 of 1 Date: Saturday 30 September 2000
Place	Nation	Athletes	Time
	Italy	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi	3:14.461
	Sweden	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson	3:16.075
	Hungary	Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb	3:16.357
4	Germany	Andreas Ihle and Olaf Winter	3:16.627
5	France	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb and Philippe Aubertin	3:17.635
6	Slovakia	Juraj Bača and Michal Riszdorfer	3:18.325
7	Russia	Yevgeny Salakhov and Oleg Gorobiy	3:18.937
8	Poland	Marek Twardowski and Adam Wysocki	3:19.939
9	Norway	Eirik Verås Larsen and Nils Olav Fjeldheim	3:20.515

Beniamino Bonomi was so excited after winning the gold that he fell overboard after saluting the Italian team.

References

2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results. (in English and French)
Sports-reference.com 2000 K-2 1000 m results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Pairs 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. p. 476.

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