The men's C-2 500 metres event was an open-style, pairs canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Results
Heats Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000
15 teams entered in two heats. The top three finishers from each heat advanced to the finals while the remaining teams were relegated to the semifinal. RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes 1 Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz 1:41.511 QF 2 Serhiy Klyniuk and Dmytro Sablin 1:42.903 QF 3 Christian Gille and Thomas Zereske 1:43.233 QF 4 Petr Procházka and Jan Břečka 1:44.175 QS 5 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató 1:44.973 QS 6 Nikica Ljubek and Dražen Funtak 1:45.567 QS 7 José Ramón Ferrer and José Antonio Romero 1:45.927 QS 8 Attila Buday and Tamás Buday, Jr. 1:46.557 QS
RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes 1 Mitică Pricop and Florin Popescu 1:41.904 QF 2 Ibrahim Rojas and Leobaldo Pereira 1:42.180 QF 3 Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai 1:42.816 QF 4 Zhomart Satubaldin and Konstantin Negodyayev 1:45.810 QS 5 Andrew Train and Stephen Train 1:46.986 QS 6 Aleksandr Kovalyov and Aleksandr Kostoglod 1:47.682 QS 7 Ján Kubica and Mário Ostrćil 1:47.934 QS
Semifinal Date: Friday 29 September 2000
The top three finishers from the semifinal advanced to the final.
RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes 1 Aleksandr Kovalyov and Aleksandr Kostoglod 1:44.981 QF 2 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató 1:45.677 QF 3 Zhomart Satubaldin and Konstantin Negodyayev 1:45.809 QF 4 Petr Procházka and Jan Břečka 1:46.013 5 José Ramón Ferrer and José Antonio Romero 1:46.811 6 Nikica Ljubek and Dražen Funtak 1:46.955 7 Attila Buday and Tamás Buday, Jr. 1:47.525 8 Ján Kubica and Mário Ostrćil 1:48.749 9 Andrew Train and Stephen Train 1:49.931
Final Date: Sunday 1 October 2000
RankCanoerCountryTimeNotes Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai 1:51.284 Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz 1:51.536 Mitică Pricop and Florin Popescu 1:54.260 4 José Alfredo Bea and David Mascató 1:56.600 5 Christian Gille and Thomas Zereske 1:59.294 6 Aleksandr Kovalyov and Aleksandr Kostoglod 2:00.134 7 Zhomart Satubaldin and Konstantin Negodyayev 2:01.436 8 Serhiy Klyniuk and Dmytro Sablin 2:02.612 9 Ibrahim Rojas and Leobaldo Pereira 2:17.126
Pulai and Novák were known as "The Monster and the Little Guy" because Pulai was 1.99 meters (6 ft. 6.25 in.) tall and weighed 97 kg (214 lbs) while Novák was 1.72 meters (5 ft. 8 in.) and weighed 77 kg (170 lbs). Pulai taped Novák's leg to the boat so that his partner would not fall to the strong winds blowing on the day of the final.
References 2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results. Sports-reference.com 2000 C-2 500 m results. Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Doubles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 482.