Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom C-2

Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1	men
C-2	men
K-1	men	women
Sprint
C-1 500 m	men
C-1 1000 m	men
C-2 500 m	men
C-2 1000 m	men
K-1 500 m	men	women
K-1 1000 m	men
K-2 500 m	men	women
K-2 1000 m	men
K-4 500 m		women
K-4 1000 m	men

The men's C-2 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 13 and 15, 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The C-2 (canoe single) event is raced by two-man canoes through a whitewater course. The finals were rescheduled from the 14th to the 15th due to persistent lightning at the Park.

There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 12 boats advanced to the semifinals.

The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 8 scores from that run; those 8 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total.

Medalists

Gold	Pavol Hochschorner & Peter Hochschorner Slovakia
Silver	Jaroslav Volf & Ondřej Štěpánek Czech Republic
Bronze	Mikhail Kuznetsov & Dmitry Larionov Russia

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, August 13, 2008	15:00-15:40	Heats 1st Run
Wednesday, August 13, 2008	16:42-17:22	Heats 2nd Run
Thursday, August 14, 2008	15:00-15:35	Semifinal
Friday, August 15, 2008	16:47-17:12	Final

Results

Rank	Name	Preliminary Round				Semifinal		Final
Rank	Name	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Total
	Pavol Hochschorner & Peter Hochschorner (SVK)	93.69	93.04	186.73	1	94.88	2	95.94	190.82
	Jaroslav Volf & Ondřej Štěpánek (CZE)	93.78	97.16	190.94	4	95.33	3	97.56	192.89
	Mikhail Kuznetsov & Dmitry Larionov (RUS)	98.43	97.65	196.08	6	98.57	4	98.80	197.37
4	Cédric Forgit & Martin Braud (FRA)	96.17	92.39	188.56	2	102.76	5	95.43	198.19
5	Andrea Benetti & Erik Masoero (ITA)	100.08	102.20	202.28	8	103.64	6	100.48	204.12
6	Felix Michel & Sebastian Piersig (GER)	96.04	96.33	192.37	5	94.38	1	110.05	204.43

7	Mark Bellofiore & Lachie Milne (AUS)	104.61	98.21	202.82	9	104.17	7
8	Paweł Sarna & Marcin Pochwała (POL)	98.38	100.37	198.75	7	105.32	8
9	Masatoshi Samma & Hiroyuki Nagao (JPN)	99.47	113.09	212.56	10	110.10	9
10	Hu Minghai & Shu Junrong (CHN)	97.30	93.34	190.64	3	164.08	10

11	Rick Powell & Casey Eichfeld (USA)	101.69	151.65	253.34	11
12	Cyprian Ngidi & Cameron McIntosh (RSA)	119.83	157.37	277.20	12