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Canadian Doubles, 1,000 metres, Men

Date18 – 22 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationShunyi Aolinpike Shuishang Gongyuan, Mapo, Shunyi
Participants26 from 13 countries

Germany’s Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek were the defending Olympic champions in the C-2 1000 and had been fairly successful on the international scene since, winning the 2005 and 2007 European and World Championships and being runners-up at the 2006 Europeans. Hungary’s György Kozmann and György Kolonics, the 2004 Olympic bronze medalists, had been the 2006 World Champions, the 2005 and 2007 European runners-up, and the 2005 World bronze medalists, but Kolonics died of heart failure shortly prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics and was replaced by Tamás Kiss. Belarusian brothers Andrey and Aleksandr Bogdanovich, meanwhile, were the 2008 European champions and the 2006 and 2007 bronze medalists.

The Germans and the Belarusians won their opening heats and advanced directly to the final, while the Hungarians were fourth in the German heat and were relegated to the semi-finals. Here they were defeated by Poland’s Wojciech Tyszyński and Paweł Baraszkiewicz, the 2007 World and 2008 European bronze medalists. The final was a tight race between the Germans and the Belarusians, both of whom were almost four seconds ahead of the rest of the pack as they crossed the finish line, with the Bogdanovich brothers capturing gold by a margin of only 0.223 seconds. Hungary, meanwhile, was engaged in a three-way battle for bronze with the Romania and Chinese teams, which it won by a mere 0.084 seconds. Gille and Wylenzek would go on to earn bronze in the C-2 500 the following day.

PosNumberPairNOCR1SFFinal
121/19Andrei Bahdanovich / Aliaksandr BahdanovichBLR3:40.369 (1 h2)3:36.365 (1)Gold
2107/105Christian Gille / Tomasz WylenzekGER3:40.939 (1 h1)3:36.588 (2)Silver
3129/121György Kozmann / Tamás KissHUN3:46.020 (4 h1)3:42.482 (2 h1)3:40.258 (3)Bronze
4201/200Ciprian Popa / Nicolae FloceaROU3:41.846 (2 h1)3:40.342 (4)
563/52Chen Zhongyun / Zhang ZhiwuCHN3:41.658 (4 h2)3:42.619 (3 h1)3:40.593 (5)
645/31Andrew Russell / Gabriel Beauchesne-SévignyCAN3:43.491 (3 h1)3:41.165 (6)
7191/177Wojciech Tyszyński / Paweł BaraszkiewiczPOL3:42.177 (5 h2)3:42.435 (1 h1)3:42.845 (7)
8216/215Sergey Ulegin / Aleksandr KostoglodRUS3:41.291 (3 h2)3:44.669 (8)
971/70Serguey Torres / Karel AguilarCUB3:41.171 (2 h2)3:48.877 (9)
4 h1 r2/329/28Deyan Georgiev / Adnan AlievBUL3:54.111 (6 h2)3:45.019 (4 h1)
5 h1 r2/3237/238Ruslan Dzhalilov / Petro KrukUKR4:06.744 (7 h1)3:46.050 (5 h1)
6 h1 r2/393/98Bertrand Hémonic / William TchambaFRA3:46.431 (5 h1)3:48.406 (6 h1)
7 h1 r2/3168/170José Cristóbal / Dimas CamiloMEX3:51.684 (6 h1)3:49.695 (7 h1)

Round One

Date18 August 2008
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to final, places 4-7 and fastest eighth in each heat advanced to semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time17:10
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15Christian Gille / Tomasz WylenzekGER3:40.93951.90 (1)1:47.06 (1)2:44.08 (1)55.16 (2)57.02 (3)56.859 (2)Q
26Ciprian Popa / Nicolae FloceaROU3:41.84653.97 (4)1:48.85 (3)2:45.43 (2)54.88 (1)56.58 (2)56.416 (1)Q
32Andrew Russell / Gabriel Beauchesne-SévignyCAN3:43.49153.06 (2)1:48.56 (2)2:45.74 (3)55.50 (5)57.18 (4)57.751 (4)Q
44György Kozmann / Tamás KissHUN3:46.02054.96 (7)1:50.39 (5)2:46.72 (4)55.43 (4)56.33 (1)59.300 (5)
53Bertrand Hémonic / William TchambaFRA3:46.43154.78 (5)1:50.07 (4)2:48.74 (5)55.29 (3)58.67 (5)57.691 (3)
68José Cristóbal / Dimas CamiloMEX3:51.68454.87 (6)1:51.62 (7)2:50.33 (6)56.75 (6)58.71 (6)1:01.354 (6)
77Ruslan Dzhalilov / Petro KrukUKR4:06.74453.88 (3)1:50.87 (6)2:51.49 (7)56.99 (7)1:00.62 (7)1:15.254 (7)

Heat #2

Time17:20
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
13Andrei Bahdanovich / Aliaksandr BahdanovichBLR3:40.36953.37 (4)1:48.26 (3)2:45.40 (3)54.89 (1)57.14 (4)54.969 (2)Q
24Serguey Torres / Karel AguilarCUB3:41.17152.09 (2)1:47.50 (1)2:44.29 (1)55.41 (2)56.79 (3)56.881 (5)Q
32Sergey Ulegin / Aleksandr KostoglodRUS3:41.29151.87 (1)1:47.70 (2)2:46.40 (5)55.83 (4)58.70 (6)54.891 (1)Q
46Chen Zhongyun / Zhang ZhiwuCHN3:41.65853.56 (6)1:49.36 (4)2:45.31 (2)55.80 (3)55.95 (2)56.348 (3)
55Wojciech Tyszyński / Paweł BaraszkiewiczPOL3:42.17752.26 (3)1:50.10 (6)2:45.66 (4)57.84 (6)55.56 (1)56.517 (4)
67Deyan Georgiev / Adnan AlievBUL3:54.11153.47 (5)1:49.73 (5)2:47.92 (6)56.26 (5)58.19 (5)1:06.191 (6)

Semi-Finals

Date20 August 2008
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to final.

Heat #1

Time16:30
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
13Wojciech Tyszyński / Paweł BaraszkiewiczPOL3:42.43553.78 (3)1:49.77 (3)2:46.73 (3)55.99 (4)56.96 (5)55.705 (1)Q
25György Kozmann / Tamás KissHUN3:42.48255.09 (5)1:51.02 (5)2:46.47 (2)55.93 (=2)55.45 (1)56.012 (2)Q
34Chen Zhongyun / Zhang ZhiwuCHN3:42.61954.29 (4)1:49.31 (2)2:45.72 (1)55.02 (1)56.41 (2)56.899 (3)Q
47Deyan Georgiev / Adnan AlievBUL3:45.01952.76 (1)1:48.69 (1)2:47.00 (5)55.93 (=2)58.31 (6)58.019 (6)
58Ruslan Dzhalilov / Petro KrukUKR3:46.05055.37 (6)1:52.21 (6)2:49.09 (6)56.84 (6)56.88 (4)56.960 (4)
66Bertrand Hémonic / William TchambaFRA3:48.40653.44 (2)1:50.26 (4)2:46.81 (4)56.82 (5)56.55 (3)1:01.596 (7)
72José Cristóbal / Dimas CamiloMEX3:49.69556.05 (7)1:53.23 (7)2:51.69 (7)57.18 (7)58.46 (7)58.005 (5)

Final Round

Date22 August 2008 — 17:05
PosLanePairNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
14Andrei Bahdanovich / Aliaksandr BahdanovichBLR3:36.36552.87 (3)1:47.87 (3)2:42.77 (2)55.00 (3)54.90 (1)53.595 (1)
25Christian Gille / Tomasz WylenzekGER3:36.58851.23 (1)1:45.87 (1)2:41.23 (1)54.64 (2)55.36 (3)55.358 (3)
31György Kozmann / Tamás KissHUN3:40.25853.66 (6)1:49.45 (7)2:44.49 (4)55.79 (7)55.04 (2)55.768 (5)
43Ciprian Popa / Nicolae FloceaROU3:40.34253.24 (5)1:47.69 (2)2:43.48 (3)54.45 (1)55.79 (4)56.862 (7)
59Chen Zhongyun / Zhang ZhiwuCHN3:40.59354.09 (8)1:49.54 (8)2:45.39 (5)55.45 (5)55.85 (5)55.203 (2)
67Andrew Russell / Gabriel Beauchesne-SévignyCAN3:41.16553.23 (4)1:48.87 (5)2:45.68 (6)55.64 (6)56.81 (7)55.485 (4)
78Wojciech Tyszyński / Paweł BaraszkiewiczPOL3:42.84554.34 (9)1:50.50 (9)2:47.04 (9)56.16 (9)56.54 (6)55.805 (6)
82Sergey Ulegin / Aleksandr KostoglodRUS3:44.66952.56 (2)1:48.48 (4)2:46.28 (7)55.92 (8)57.80 (9)58.389 (8)
96Serguey Torres / Karel AguilarCUB3:48.87753.81 (7)1:49.24 (6)2:46.45 (8)55.43 (4)57.21 (8)1:02.427 (9)