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Kayak Doubles, 500 metres, Men

Date30 July – 1 August 1980
StatusOlympic
LocationGrebnoy kanal, Sportivny komplex Krylatskoye, Moskva
Participants36 from 18 countries

The Soviet Union was the reigning World Champion and Olympic runner-up in the men’s K-2 500 and sent its 1979 victors, Vladimir Parfenovich and Serhiy Chukhrai, the latter of whom was a 1976 Olympic champion in the K-4 1000, to the 1980 Summer Olympics. Bernd Olbricht was one of East Germany’s defending Olympic champions, and had won the World Championships in 1977 and 1978 and been runner-up in 1979, and brought his most recent partner Rüdiger Helm, a three-time Olympic and ten-time World medalist, to Moscow. France, meanwhile, was represented by 1979 World bronze medalists Francis Hervieu and Alain Lebas.

East Germany and the Soviet Union won their heats in the opening round, but France was bested by the Spanish duo of Guillermo del Riego and Herminio Menéndez, the latter of whom had seven World Championship medals in various disciplines. The results were similar in the semi-finals, except France came in second to the Soviet Union rather than Spain. In the final, the Soviet Union took gold without much difficulty, while Spain and East Germany battled for silver, the former of whom emerged victorious, leaving the latter with bronze. France did not arrive for its fourth-place finish until over two seconds later. Many of the podium finishers in this event went on to win medals in other disciplines: the Soviets also took gold in the K-2 1000, Parfenovich earned a third title in the K-1 500, the East Germans nabbed gold in the K-4 1000, Helm won another title in the K-1 1000, and Menéndez took bronze in the K-2 1000.

PosNumberPairNOCR1RepSFFinal
1155/151Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey ChukhrayURS1:33.75 (1 h2)1:34.71 (1 h2)1:32.38 (1)GoldOB
237/35Herminio Menéndez / Guillermo del RiegoESP1:34.16 (1 h3)1:35.59 (1 h3)1:33.65 (2)Silver
367/74Rüdiger Helm / Bernd OlbrichtGDR1:35.36 (1 h1)1:35.88 (1 h1)1:34.00 (3)Bronze
451/54Francis Hervieu / Alain LebasFRA1:34.61 (2 h3)1:36.04 (2 h2)1:36.22 (4)
53/4Barry Kelly / Robert LeeAUS1:36.31 (2 h1)1:36.63 (2 h3)1:36.45 (5)
6122/116Alexandru Giura / Ion BîrlădeanuROU1:37.34 (4 h1)1:38.55 (1 h1)1:36.90 (2 h1)1:36.96 (6)
7109/113Waldemar Merk / Zdzisław SzubskiPOL1:36.98 (3 h2)1:37.45 (3 h3)1:37.20 (7)
890/88László Szabó / Zoltán RomhányiHUN1:36.99 (3 h1)1:36.98 (3 h2)1:37.66 (8)
9139/140Jens Nordqvist / Thomas OhlssonSWE1:38.13 (5 h1)1:39.89 (3 h2)1:37.42 (3 h1)1:39.92 (9)
4 h1 r3/4148/144Jiří Svoboda / Vladimír DolejšTCH1:36.29 (3 h3)1:37.89 (4 h1)
4 h2 r3/433/32José Marrero / Reynaldo CunillCUB1:36.49 (4 h3)1:37.85 (1 h2)1:37.20 (4 h2)
4 h3 r3/4101/102Alan Thompson / Geoff WalkerNZL1:39.30 (6 h2)1:39.32 (2 h2)1:38.38 (4 h3)
5 h1 r3/49/7Wolfgang Hartl / Werner BachmayerAUT1:36.66 (2 h2)1:39.04 (5 h1)
5 h2 r3/456/63Christopher Ballard / Neil RobsonGBR1:40.33 (7 h2)1:39.95 (3 h1)1:41.37 (5 h2)
5 h3 r3/496/97Antonio Mastrandrea / Danio MerliITA1:39.84 (6 h1)1:39.64 (2 h1)1:41.23 (5 h3)
4 h1 r2/413/16Jacky Alders / Gaëtan FrysBEL1:43.31 (5 h3)1:40.43 (4 h1)
4 h2 r2/479/77Ron Stevens / Gert Jan LebbinkNED1:37.15 (4 h2)1:41.03 (4 h2)
5 h1 r2/4129/131Peter Ammann / Dionys ThalmannSUI1:39.14 (5 h2)1:40.92 (5 h1)
DNS28/30Slavcho Mangarakov / Boyko SavovBUL– (DNS h1)
DNS164/163Milan Janić / Jovan ĐolićYUG– (DNS h3)

Round One

Date30 July 1980 — 11:30
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
12Rüdiger Helm / Bernd OlbrichtGDR1:35.3646.08 (2)49.28 (2)QOB
26Barry Kelly / Robert LeeAUS1:36.3145.09 (1)51.22 (5)Q
33László Szabó / Zoltán RomhányiHUN1:36.9948.48 (6)48.51 (1)Q
47Alexandru Giura / Ion BîrlădeanuROU1:37.3446.62 (3)50.72 (4)
55Jens Nordqvist / Thomas OhlssonSWE1:38.1347.67 (5)50.46 (3)
64Antonio Mastrandrea / Danio MerliITA1:39.8447.21 (4)52.63 (6)
DNS1Slavcho Mangarakov / Boyko SavovBUL– (–)– (–)

Heat #2

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
17Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey ChukhrayURS1:33.7544.91 (1)48.84 (1)QOB
22Wolfgang Hartl / Werner BachmayerAUT1:36.6646.20 (3)50.46 (4)Q
36Waldemar Merk / Zdzisław SzubskiPOL1:36.9845.62 (2)51.36 (5)Q
41Ron Stevens / Gert Jan LebbinkNED1:37.1547.05 (5)50.10 (2)
55Peter Ammann / Dionys ThalmannSUI1:39.1448.86 (7)50.28 (3)
63Alan Thompson / Geoff WalkerNZL1:39.3046.56 (4)52.74 (6)
74Christopher Ballard / Neil RobsonGBR1:40.3347.47 (6)52.86 (7)

Heat #3

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
13Herminio Menéndez / Guillermo del RiegoESP1:34.1645.81 (2)48.35 (1)Q
22Francis Hervieu / Alain LebasFRA1:34.6146.22 (3)48.39 (2)Q
31Jiří Svoboda / Vladimír DolejšTCH1:36.2946.55 (4)49.74 (3)Q
45José Marrero / Reynaldo CunillCUB1:36.4945.39 (1)51.10 (4)
56Jacky Alders / Gaëtan FrysBEL1:43.3149.17 (5)54.14 (5)
DNS4Milan Janić / Jovan ĐolićYUG– (–)– (–)

Repêchage

Date30 July 1980 — 17:30
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
11Alexandru Giura / Ion BîrlădeanuROU1:38.5547.11 (1)51.44 (2)Q
23Antonio Mastrandrea / Danio MerliITA1:39.6447.92 (2)51.72 (4)Q
35Christopher Ballard / Neil RobsonGBR1:39.9548.27 (3)51.68 (3)Q
42Jacky Alders / Gaëtan FrysBEL1:40.4350.41 (5)50.02 (1)
54Peter Ammann / Dionys ThalmannSUI1:40.9249.19 (4)51.73 (5)

Heat #2

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
13José Marrero / Reynaldo CunillCUB1:37.8546.14 (1)51.71 (1)Q
24Alan Thompson / Geoff WalkerNZL1:39.3246.90 (2)52.42 (4)Q
32Jens Nordqvist / Thomas OhlssonSWE1:39.8947.54 (3)52.35 (3)Q
41Ron Stevens / Gert Jan LebbinkNED1:41.0348.78 (4)52.25 (2)

Semi-Finals

Date1 August 1980 — 11:30
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat #1

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Rüdiger Helm / Bernd OlbrichtGDR1:35.8845.72 (1)50.16 (2)Q
24Alexandru Giura / Ion BîrlădeanuROU1:36.9046.68 (3)50.22 (3)Q
32Jens Nordqvist / Thomas OhlssonSWE1:37.4246.21 (2)51.21 (4)Q
41Jiří Svoboda / Vladimír DolejšTCH1:37.8947.79 (5)50.10 (1)
53Wolfgang Hartl / Werner BachmayerAUT1:39.0447.26 (4)51.78 (5)

Heat #2

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
14Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey ChukhrayURS1:34.7145.83 (1)48.88 (1)Q
22Francis Hervieu / Alain LebasFRA1:36.0446.70 (3)49.34 (3)Q
33László Szabó / Zoltán RomhányiHUN1:36.9847.89 (4)49.09 (2)Q
45José Marrero / Reynaldo CunillCUB1:37.2046.38 (2)50.82 (4)
51Christopher Ballard / Neil RobsonGBR1:41.3749.46 (5)51.91 (5)

Heat #3

PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
12Herminio Menéndez / Guillermo del RiegoESP1:35.5946.56 (3)49.03 (1)Q
21Barry Kelly / Robert LeeAUS1:36.6345.44 (1)51.19 (2)Q
35Waldemar Merk / Zdzisław SzubskiPOL1:37.4545.91 (2)51.54 (4)Q
44Alan Thompson / Geoff WalkerNZL1:38.3847.17 (4)51.21 (3)
53Antonio Mastrandrea / Danio MerliITA1:41.2349.31 (5)51.92 (5)

Final Round

Date1 August 1980 — 17:30
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m250-500 m
11Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey ChukhrayURS1:32.3844.58 (1)47.80 (1)OB
23Herminio Menéndez / Guillermo del RiegoESP1:33.6545.43 (3)48.22 (2)
32Rüdiger Helm / Bernd OlbrichtGDR1:34.0044.98 (2)49.02 (3)
46Francis Hervieu / Alain LebasFRA1:36.2246.73 (6)49.49 (4)
57Barry Kelly / Robert LeeAUS1:36.4545.90 (4)50.55 (7)
65Alexandru Giura / Ion BîrlădeanuROU1:36.9647.14 (7)49.82 (5)
74Waldemar Merk / Zdzisław SzubskiPOL1:37.2046.31 (5)50.89 (8)
88László Szabó / Zoltán RomhányiHUN1:37.6647.51 (8)50.15 (6)
99Jens Nordqvist / Thomas OhlssonSWE1:39.9247.92 (9)52.00 (9)