Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres

Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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The men's K-2 1000 metres event was a pairs kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics program.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Greg Barton and Norman Bellingham (USA)	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald (NZL)	Peter Foster and Kelvin Graham (AUS)

Results

Heats

20 crews entered in three heats on September 27. The top three finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the semifinals. The remaining eleven teams were relegated to the repechage heats.

Heat 1
1.	Bruno Dreossi and Alessandro Pieri (ITA)	3:25.76	QS
2.	Sergey Kalesnik and Sergey Galkov (URS)	3:27.06	QS
3.	Mikko Kolehmainen and Olli Kolehmainen (FIN)	3:27.52	QS
4.	António Brinco and Eduardo Gomes (POR)	3:31.95	QR
5.	Alberto Sánchez and Gregorio Vicente (ESP)	3:32.97	QR
6.	Donald Brien and Colin Shaw (CAN)	3:35.30	QR
7.	Svein Egil Solvang and Harald Amundsen (NOR)	3:36.85	QR
Heat 2
1.	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald (NZL)	3:20.44	QS
2.	Greg Barton and Norman Bellingham (USA)	3:20.50	QS
3.	Philippe Boccara and Pascal Boucherit (FRA)	3:23.00	QS
4.	Anders Ohlsén and Hans Olsson (SWE)	3:26.43	QR
5.	Daniel Stoian and Angelin Velea (ROU)	3:28.42	QR
6.	Niels Ellwanger and Carsten Lömker (FRG)	3:37.82	QR
7.	Declan Burns and Peter Connor (IRL)	3:41.18	QR
Heat 3
1.	Guido Behling and Torsten Krentz (GDR)	3:24.45	QS
2.	Peter Foster and Kelvin Graham (AUS)	3:25.66	QS
3.	Tibor Helyi and András Rajna (HUN)	3:26.00	QS
4.	Xue Bing and Ma Fuliang (CHN)	3:31.24	QR
5.	Andrew Sheriff and Kevin Smith (GBR)	3:33.16	QR
6.	Park Cha-Geun and Cheon in-Sik (KOR)	3:47.21	QR

Repechages

Taking place on September 27, the top three competitors in each of the two repechages advanced to the semifinals.

Repechage 1
1.	Daniel Stoian and Angelin Velea (ROU)	3:31.51	QS
2.	Donald Brien and Colin Shaw (CAN)	3:38.74	QS
3.	Xue Bing and Ma Fuliang (CHN)	3:39.56	QS
4.	Declan Burns and Peter Connor (IRL)	3:43.02
5.	António Brinco and Eduardo Gomes (POR)	3:47.99
Repechage 2
1.	Anders Ohlsén and Hans Olsson (SWE)	3:26.75	QS
2.	Andrew Sheriff and Kevin Smith (GBR)	3:31.78	QS
3.	Niels Ellwanger and Carsten Lömker (FRG)	3:31.95	QS
4.	Svein Egil Solveng and Harald Amundsen (NOR)	3:32.07
5.	Alberto Sánchez and Gregorio Vicente (ESP)	3:32.92
6.	Park Cha-Geun and Cheon in-Sik (KOR)	3:36.70

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the three semifinals (raced on September 29) advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
1.	Daniel Stoian and Angelin Velea (ROU)	3:25.91	QF
2.	Peter Foster and Kelvin Graham (AUS)	3:26.87	QF
3.	Niels Ellwanger and Carsten Lömker (FRG)	3:28.91	QF
4.	Declan Burns and Peter Connor (IRL)	3:38.92
5.	Bruno Dreossi and Alessandro Pieri (ITA)	4:11.90
-	Philippe Boccara and Pascal Boucherit (FRA)	DISQ
Semifinal 2
1.	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald (NZL)	3:23.13	QF
2.	Tibor Helyi and András Rajna (HUN)	3:24.24	QF
3.	Svein Egil Solveng and Harald Amundsen (NOR)	3:25.00	QF
4.	Sergey Kalesnik and Sergey Galkov (URS)	3:27.03
5.	Donald Brien and Colin Shaw (CAN)	3:30.29
6.	Andrew Sheriff and Kevin Smith (GBR)	3:31.65
Semifinal 3
1.	Greg Barton and Norman Bellingham (USA)	3:25.36	QF
2.	Guido Behling and Torsten Krentz (GDR)	3:27.19	QF
3.	Anders Ohlsén and Hans Olsson (SWE)	3:28.31	QF
4.	Mikko Kolehmainen and Olli Kolehmainen (FIN)	3:30.98
5.	Xue Bing and Ma Fuliang (CHN)	3:42.91

Pre-Olympic favorite France was disqualified in the first semifinal for failing to make it to the starting line on time.

Final

The final was held on October 1.

	Greg Barton and Norman Bellingham (USA)	3:32.42
	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald (NZL)	3:32.71
	Peter Foster and Kelvin Graham (AUS)	3:33.76
4.	Niels Ellwanger and Carsten Lömker (FRG)	3:34.63
5.	Guido Behling and Torsten Krentz (GDR)	3:35.44
6.	Daniel Stoian and Angelin Velea (ROU)	3:35.75
7.	Anders Ohlsén and Hans Olsson (SWE)	3:36.13
8.	Svein Egil Solveng and Harald Amundsen (NOR)	3:38.16
9.	Tibor Helyi and András Rajna (HUN)	3:43.43

References

1988 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2, Part 2. pp. 339–41. (English) & (French)
Sports-reference.com 1988 K-2 1000 m results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Pairs 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. pp. 475–6.

Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-2 1000 m

1936: Austria (Adolf Kainz, Alfons Dorfner)
1948: Sweden (Hans Berglund, Lennart Klingström)
1952: Finland (Kurt Wires, Yrjö Hietanen)
1956: Germany (Michel Scheuer, Meinrad Miltenberger)
1960: Sweden (Gert Fredriksson, Sven-Olov Sjödelius)
1964: Sweden (Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Gunnar Utterberg)
1968: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Volodymyr Morozov)
1972: Soviet Union (Nikolai Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk)
1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Nahorny, Vladimir Romanovsky)
1980: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich, Sergei Chukhray)
1984: Canada (Hugh Fisher, Alwyn Morris)
1988: United States (Greg Barton, Norman Bellingham)
1992: Germany (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche)
1996: Italy (Daniele Scarpa, Antonio Rossi)
2000: Italy (Antonio Rossi, Beniamino Bonomi)
2004: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson)
2008: Germany (Andreas Ihle, Martin Hollstein)
2012: Hungary (Rudolf Dombi, Roland Kökény)

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