Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Canoe - Single Canadians 200 meters (men)

sport	canoe
discipline	Single canoe 200 meters
gender	Men
place	Dorney Lake
Attendees	25 athletes from 25 countries
Competition phase	10/11 August 2012

The men's 200 meter canoe competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 10 and 11, 2012 on Dorney Lake . 25 athletes took part.

The competition over 200 meters is new to the Olympic program and replaces the canoe race over 500 meters. Four preliminary runs were started on August 10th. The first six starters qualified for the semifinals. The rest were eliminated.

In the semifinals, the first two athletes and the two fastest athletes in 3rd place qualified for Final A. The slowest boat in 3rd place, the boats in 4th and 5th place, and the fastest in 6th place qualified for Final B, with which the places 9 to 16 were determined. The athletes in positions 7 and 8 and the two slower starters in position 6 were eliminated.

The directly qualified athletes in the preliminary runs are highlighted in light green, those who have qualified over time are highlighted in light blue. The starters qualified for Final A are highlighted in light green, those who have qualified over time are highlighted in light blue. The starters who are qualified for Final B are highlighted in orange.

Title holder

Olympic champion	-	new to the Olympic program
World Champion	Valentin Demjanenko ( Azerbaijan )	Szeged 2011

Prelims

August 10, 2012

Forward 1

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Mathieu Goubel	France	41.248
2	Andrzej Jezierski	Ireland	41,404
3	Naoya Sakamoto	Japan	41,528
4th	Jason McCoombs	Canada	41.742
5	Ronilson Oliveira	Brazil	42.216
6th	Sebastian Marczak	Australia	42.845
7th	Valentin Demianenko	Azerbaijan	44.194

Forward 2

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivan Shtyl	Russia	41.378
2	Sebastian Brendel	Germany	41,511
3	Richard Jefferies	United Kingdom	42.516
4th	Everardo Cristóbal	Mexico	44.459
5	Piotr Kuleta	Poland	44.645
6th	Nelson Henriques	Angola	55.268

Forward 3

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Alfonso Benavides	Spain	40.993
2	Dzianis Garascha	Belarus	41.290
3	Li Qiang	People's Republic of China	42.004
4th	Wadim Menkow	Uzbekistan	42.171
5	Ľubomír Hagara	Slovakia	43.507
6th	Rudolph Berking-Williams	Samoa	51,483

Forward 4

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuri Cheban	Ukraine	41.036
2	Jevgenijus Suklinas	Lithuania	41.288
3	Alexander Djadchuk	Kazakhstan	43.204
4th	Khaled Houcine	Tunisia	44.395
5	Attila Vajda	Hungary	44.761
6th	Ndiatta Gueye	Senegal	51.708

Semifinals

August 10, 2012

Run 1

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Jevgenijus Suklinas	Lithuania	41,483
2	Mathieu Goubel	France	41.938
3	Li Qiang	People's Republic of China	42.149
4th	Sebastian Brendel	Germany	42.161
5	Ronilson Oliveira	Brazil	42,560
6th	Wadim Menkow	Uzbekistan	42.944
7th	Piotr Kuleta	Poland	45.348
8th	Ndiatte Gueye	Senegal	50.798

Run 2

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivan Shtyl	Russia	40,346
2	Alfonso Benavides	Spain	40.619
3	Ľubomír Hagara	Slovakia	41,472
4th	Andrzej Jezierski	Ireland	42.012
5	Alexander Djadchuk	Kazakhstan	42.359
6th	Sebastian Marczak	Australia	43,441
7th	Khaled Houcine	Tunisia	44.373
8th	Nelson Henriques	Angola	50.876

Run 3

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuri Cheban	Ukraine	40.647
2	Dzianis Garascha	Belarus	41,427
3	Naoya Sakamoto	Japan	41.771
4th	Jason McCoombs	Canada	42.255
5	Attila Vajda	Hungary	42,970
6th	Richard Jefferies	United Kingdom	43.213
7th	Everardo Cristóbal	Mexico	44,571
8th	Rudolph Berking-Williams	Samoa	54.471

final

August 11, 2012

Finale B

Note: to determine places 9 to 16

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
09	Andrzej Jezierski	Ireland	44.041
10	Wadim Menkow	Uzbekistan	44.168
11	Attila Vajda	Hungary	44,466
12	Ronilson Oliveira	Brazil	44.586
13	Jason McCoombs	Canada	44.973
14th	Alexander Djadchuk	Kazakhstan	45.283
15th	Sebastian Brendel	Germany	45.852
16	Li Qiang	People's Republic of China	47.295

Finale A

Note: to determine places 1 to 8

space	athlete	nation	Time (s)
1	Yuri Cheban	Ukraine	42.291
2	vacant
3	Ivan Shtyl	Russia	42.853
4th	Alfonso Benavides	Spain	43.038
5	Dzianis Garascha	Belarus	43.545
6th	Ľubomír Hagara	Slovakia	43.977
7th	Mathieu Goubel	France	44.045
8th	Naoya Sakamoto	Japan	44.699

Jevgenijus Šuklinas originally achieved second place with a time of 42.792 s and won the first Olympic medal for Lithuania in canoe racing. On June 13, 2019, the IOC retrospectively stripped him of the silver medal . In follow-up tests, the consumption of the forbidden anabolic dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (Turinabol) was proven.

Web links

• Single canoe 200 meters (men)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012. International Olympic Committee , June 12, 2019, accessed June 18, 2019 .