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Kayak Doubles, 500 metres, Women

Date30 July – 1 August 1980
StatusOlympic
LocationGrebnoy kanal, Sportivny komplex Krylatskoye, Moskva
Participants24 from 12 countries

Reigning Olympic champions in the K-2 500 Nina Gopova-Trofimova and Galina Alekseyeva were in attendance at the 1980 Summer Olympics in a bid to defend their crown and were also representing the reigning World Champions. They were certain to encounter a challenge from East Germany, winners of the 1977 and 1978 World Championships, who sent Carsta Genäuß and Martina Bischof to the Games. Romania, meanwhile, had medaled at each of the last three World Championships (silver in 1977, bronze in 1978 and 1979) with Agafia Buhaev and Nastasia Nichitov, but the latter was not present in Moscow and thus Buhaev was partnered with Elisabeta Băbeanu instead.

The Soviet Union bested Romania in the opening round, but it was East Germany who posted the fastest time. In the final Genäuß and Bischof were far and away the best crew on the water and the won gold by a margin of over three seconds ahead of the Soviets, who lost their title and were forced to settle for silver. Hungary’s Éva Rakusz and Mária Zakariás, meanwhile, snuck ahead of the Romanians and captured silver by a margin of only 0.09 seconds.

PosNumberPairNOCR1RepFinal
116/13Carsta Genäuß / Martina BischofGDR1:46.95 (1 h2)1:43.88 (1)GoldOB
237/40Galina Alekseyeva / Nina Gopova-TrofimovaURS1:47.07 (1 h1)1:46.91 (2)Silver
321/22Éva Rakusz / Mária ZakariásHUN1:49.92 (2 h2)1:47.95 (3)Bronze
428/29Elisabeta Băbeanu / Agafia BuhaevROU1:48.04 (2 h1)1:48.04 (4)
532/33Agneta Andersson / Karin OlssonSWE1:49.96 (4 h1)1:52.77 (2)1:49.27 (5)
69/8Anne-Marie Loriot / Valérie LeclercFRA1:48.53 (3 h1)1:49.48 (6)
725/27Ewa Kamińska-Eichler / Ewa WojtaszekPOL1:52.14 (3 h2)1:51.31 (7)
812/11Frances Wetherall / Lesley SmitherGBR1:53.25 (5 h2)1:53.12 (3)1:52.76 (8)
95/4Velichka Mincheva / Natasha YanakievaBUL1:50.51 (5 h1)1:51.66 (1)1:53.12 (9)
4 h1 r2/317/18Ineke Bakker / Marijke Kegge-DeegeNED1:52.31 (4 h2)1:54.36 (4)
5 h1 r2/324/23Luisa Ponchio / Elisabetta IntroiniITA1:58.35 (6 h1)1:55.29 (5)
6 h1 r2/335/36Jana Polakovičová / Helena VašákováTCH1:59.83 (6 h2)1:57.34 (6)
DNS1/2Marleen Kuppens / Brigitte VernaillenBEL– (DNS h1)

Round One

Date30 July 1980 — 12:50
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat #1

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
12Galina Alekseyeva / Nina Gopova-TrofimovaURS1:47.0751.97 (1)55.10 (2)QOB
23Elisabeta Băbeanu / Agafia BuhaevROU1:48.0452.27 (2)55.77 (3)Q
31Anne-Marie Loriot / Valérie LeclercFRA1:48.5357.20 (6)51.33 (1)Q
46Agneta Andersson / Karin OlssonSWE1:49.9653.32 (3)56.64 (5)
54Velichka Mincheva / Natasha YanakievaBUL1:50.5154.41 (5)56.10 (4)
67Luisa Ponchio / Elisabetta IntroiniITA1:58.3553.65 (4)1:04.70 (6)
DNS5Marleen Kuppens / Brigitte VernaillenBEL– (–)– (–)

Heat #2

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Carsta Genäuß / Martina BischofGDR1:46.9552.20 (1)54.75 (1)QOB
21Éva Rakusz / Mária ZakariásHUN1:49.9253.98 (2)55.94 (2)Q
34Ewa Kamińska-Eichler / Ewa WojtaszekPOL1:52.1455.17 (4)56.97 (4)Q
46Ineke Bakker / Marijke Kegge-DeegeNED1:52.3154.68 (3)57.63 (5)
53Frances Wetherall / Lesley SmitherGBR1:53.2556.40 (5)56.85 (3)
62Jana Polakovičová / Helena VašákováTCH1:59.8357.74 (6)1:02.09 (6)

Repêchage

Date30 July 1980 — 18:30
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final.
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
11Velichka Mincheva / Natasha YanakievaBUL1:51.6653.46 (1)58.20 (2)Q
25Agneta Andersson / Karin OlssonSWE1:52.7754.20 (2)58.57 (4)Q
36Frances Wetherall / Lesley SmitherGBR1:53.1254.69 (3)58.43 (3)Q
42Ineke Bakker / Marijke Kegge-DeegeNED1:54.3655.68 (4)58.68 (5)
54Luisa Ponchio / Elisabetta IntroiniITA1:55.2958.27 (6)57.02 (1)
63Jana Polakovičová / Helena VašákováTCH1:57.3457.51 (5)59.83 (6)

Final Round

Date1 August 1980 — 18:30
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
14Carsta Genäuß / Martina BischofGDR1:43.8849.92 (1)53.96 (2)OB
29Galina Alekseyeva / Nina Gopova-TrofimovaURS1:46.9151.29 (2)55.62 (4)
35Éva Rakusz / Mária ZakariásHUN1:47.9554.23 (7)53.72 (1)
47Elisabeta Băbeanu / Agafia BuhaevROU1:48.0451.60 (3)56.44 (6)
51Agneta Andersson / Karin OlssonSWE1:49.2753.63 (5)55.64 (5)
68Anne-Marie Loriot / Valérie LeclercFRA1:49.4854.50 (8)54.98 (3)
72Ewa Kamińska-Eichler / Ewa WojtaszekPOL1:51.3154.65 (9)56.66 (7)
83Frances Wetherall / Lesley SmitherGBR1:52.7653.95 (6)58.81 (8)
96Velichka Mincheva / Natasha YanakievaBUL1:53.1252.63 (4)1:00.49 (9)