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Kayak Doubles, 500 metres, Women

Date3 – 7 August 1992
StatusOlympic
LocationCanal Olímpico de Cataluña, Castelldefels
Participants36 from 18 countries

Birgit Schmidt, the dominant force in women’s canoeing for many years, had retired after the 1988 Summer Olympics, but returned to compete at the 1992 Games for a unified Germany. She did not, however, take part in the K-2 500, leaving that task to her old partner, 1988 Olympic K-2 and K-4 500 champion Anke von Seck, and 1988 Olympic K-4 500 champion Ramona Portwich. This duo had won the event at the last two World Championships, while Seck had taken the 1989 edition with Heike Singer, and thus they were strong favorites in Barcelona. Indeed, the duo set an Olympic record in every round, although the final was close, as the top three finishers crossed the line within 0.52 seconds of each other, the top five within 0.85 seconds, and the top seven within 1.17 seconds. In the silver medal position were Sweden’s Susanne Gunnarsson and Agneta Andersson, the latter of whom was a 1984 Olympic champion in both the K-1 and K-2 500. Bronze, meanwhile, went to Hungary’s Rita Kőbán and Éva Dónusz, the latter of whom had thrice been runner-up to the Germans at the World Championships with Erika Mészáros. Most of the medalists in this event would also earn laurels in the K-4 500: the Hungarians were the victors, the Germans were runners-up, and the Swedes finished in third (although Gunnarsson was not among them). Kőbán had also been runner-up in the K-1 500 earlier in the day.

PosNumberPairNOCR1SFFinal
1152/159Ramona Portwich / Anke von SeckGER1:41.82 (1 h1)1:40.50 (1 h1)1:40.29 (1)GoldOB
2293/290Susanne Gunnarsson / Agneta AnderssonSWE1:42.23 (1 h2)1:41.08 (2 h2)1:40.41 (2)Silver
3175/171Rita Kőbán / Éva DónuszHUN1:42.54 (2 h1)1:40.63 (1 h2)1:40.81 (3)Bronze
4279/276Sanda Toma / Carmen SimionROU1:44.26 (3 h1)1:42.35 (3 h1)1:42.12 (4)
5045/047Alison Herst / Klara MacAskillCAN1:43.73 (1 h3)1:42.30 (2 h1)1:42.14 (5)
6243/252Izabela Dylewska-Światowiak / Elżbieta UrbańczykPOL1:44.43 (2 h3)1:43.50 (3 h2)1:42.44 (6)
7057/054Zhao Xiaoli / Ning MenghuaCHN1:43.07 (2 h2)1:42.86 (4 h1)1:42.46 (7)
8068/069Jeanette Knudsen / Yvonne KnudsenDEN1:45.82 (5 h1)1:43.58 (5 h1)1:43.98 (8)
9088/077Belén Sánchez / Joaquina CostaESP1:46.64 (6 h1)1:44.54 (4 h2)1:44.96 (9)
5 h2 r2/3332/334Cathy Marino-Geers / Traci PhillipsUSA1:53.52 (6 h3)1:45.50 (5 h2)
6 h1 r2/3122/120Sabine Goetschy / Bernadette BrégeonFRA1:45.19 (3 h3)1:43.61 (6 h1)
6 h2 r2/3310/309Pavlína Jobánková / Jitka JanáčkováTCH1:47.86 (3 h2)1:45.95 (6 h2)
7 h1 r2/3016/012Anna Wood / Kerri RandleAUS1:44.76 (4 h1)1:44.05 (7 h1)
7 h2 r2/3226/229Hege Brannsten / Ingeborg RasmussenNOR1:49.58 (7 h1)1:47.48 (7 h2)
8 h1 r2/3105/106Irina Samoylova / Galina SavenkoEUN1:46.06 (4 h3)1:45.20 (8 h1)
8 h2 r2/3035/033Bonka Pindzheva / Mariya KichukovaBUL1:50.04 (5 h2)1:50.28 (8 h2)
9 h1 r2/3206/207Miyuki Kobayashi / Keiko MutoJPN1:48.40 (4 h2)1:46.38 (9 h1)
9 h2 r2/3280/286Lesley Carstens / Dene SimpsonRSA1:52.92 (5 h3)1:54.80 (9 h2)

Round One

Date3 August 1992
FormatSeeding round for semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time11:40
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
12Ramona Portwich / Anke von SeckGER1:41.8249.50 (1)52.32 (2)QOB
23Rita Kőbán / Éva DónuszHUN1:42.5450.53 (2)52.01 (1)Q
34Sanda Toma / Carmen SimionROU1:44.2651.75 (4)52.51 (3)Q
41Anna Wood / Kerri RandleAUS1:44.7651.39 (3)53.37 (4)Q
56Jeanette Knudsen / Yvonne KnudsenDEN1:45.8252.38 (6)53.44 (5)Q
67Belén Sánchez / Joaquina CostaESP1:46.6451.86 (5)54.78 (6)Q
75Hege Brannsten / Ingeborg RasmussenNOR1:49.5853.17 (7)56.41 (7)Q

Heat #2

Time11:50
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
14Susanne Gunnarsson / Agneta AnderssonSWE1:42.2349.86 (1)52.37 (1)Q
22Zhao Xiaoli / Ning MenghuaCHN1:43.0750.03 (2)53.04 (2)Q
31Pavlína Jobánková / Jitka JanáčkováTCH1:47.8652.07 (3)55.79 (4)Q
45Miyuki Kobayashi / Keiko MutoJPN1:48.4053.84 (5)54.56 (3)Q
56Bonka Pindzheva / Mariya KichukovaBUL1:50.0453.10 (4)56.94 (5)Q

Heat #3

Time12:00
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
11Alison Herst / Klara MacAskillCAN1:43.7349.85 (1)53.88 (1)Q
23Izabela Dylewska-Światowiak / Elżbieta UrbańczykPOL1:44.4350.41 (3)54.02 (2)Q
32Sabine Goetschy / Bernadette BrégeonFRA1:45.1950.14 (2)55.05 (3)Q
44Irina Samoylova / Galina SavenkoEUN1:46.0650.69 (4)55.37 (4)Q
55Lesley Carstens / Dene SimpsonRSA1:52.9256.81 (6)56.11 (5)Q
66Cathy Marino-Geers / Traci PhillipsUSA1:53.5251.57 (5)1:01.95 (6)Q

Semi-Finals

Date5 August 1992
FormatTop four in each heat and fastest fifth advanced to the final.

Heat #1

Time11:30
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
12Ramona Portwich / Anke von SeckGER1:40.5049.03 (1)51.47 (1)QOB
29Alison Herst / Klara MacAskillCAN1:42.3049.44 (2)52.86 (5)Q
31Sanda Toma / Carmen SimionROU1:42.3550.57 (5)51.78 (3)Q
46Zhao Xiaoli / Ning MenghuaCHN1:42.8650.52 (4)52.34 (4)Q
58Jeanette Knudsen / Yvonne KnudsenDEN1:43.5851.96 (8)51.62 (2)q
65Sabine Goetschy / Bernadette BrégeonFRA1:43.6149.99 (3)53.62 (7)
73Anna Wood / Kerri RandleAUS1:44.0550.58 (6)53.47 (6)
87Irina Samoylova / Galina SavenkoEUN1:45.2050.96 (7)54.24 (9)
94Miyuki Kobayashi / Keiko MutoJPN1:46.3852.57 (9)53.81 (8)

Heat #2

Time11:45
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Rita Kőbán / Éva DónuszHUN1:40.6348.82 (1)51.81 (2)Q
22Susanne Gunnarsson / Agneta AnderssonSWE1:41.0849.53 (2)51.55 (1)Q
31Izabela Dylewska-Światowiak / Elżbieta UrbańczykPOL1:43.5049.83 (3)53.67 (4)Q
43Belén Sánchez / Joaquina CostaESP1:44.5451.52 (6)53.02 (3)Q
56Cathy Marino-Geers / Traci PhillipsUSA1:45.5050.96 (5)54.54 (6)
69Pavlína Jobánková / Jitka JanáčkováTCH1:45.9550.89 (4)55.06 (7)
77Hege Brannsten / Ingeborg RasmussenNOR1:47.4853.32 (7)54.16 (5)
88Bonka Pindzheva / Mariya KichukovaBUL1:50.2854.15 (8)56.13 (8)
94Lesley Carstens / Dene SimpsonRSA1:54.8056.81 (9)57.99 (9)

Final Round

Date7 August 1992 — 11:30
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
11Ramona Portwich / Anke von SeckGER1:40.2948.20 (2)52.09 (3)OB
27Susanne Gunnarsson / Agneta AnderssonSWE1:40.4148.61 (3)51.80 (2)
35Rita Kőbán / Éva DónuszHUN1:40.8148.15 (1)52.66 (7)
43Sanda Toma / Carmen SimionROU1:42.1250.47 (7)51.65 (1)
56Alison Herst / Klara MacAskillCAN1:42.1449.99 (5)52.15 (4)
69Izabela Dylewska-Światowiak / Elżbieta UrbańczykPOL1:42.4450.11 (6)52.33 (5)
74Zhao Xiaoli / Ning MenghuaCHN1:42.4649.47 (4)52.99 (8)
82Jeanette Knudsen / Yvonne KnudsenDEN1:43.9851.42 (9)52.56 (6)
98Belén Sánchez / Joaquina CostaESP1:44.9651.41 (8)53.55 (9)