Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's K-4 500 metres

Women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	6 to 8 August
Competitors	44 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:30.827
Medalists
Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Zur  Hungary Carolin Leonhardt Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze  Germany Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran  Belarus

The women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 6 and 8 August at Eton Dorney.

Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács and Krisztina Fazekas Zur, representing Hungary, won the gold medal. Germany's team won silver and Belarus took the bronze.

Competition format

The competition comprised three heats, a semi-finals, and a final. The first boat and second-best in each heat qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-final where the top five boats then qualified for the final.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)

Date	Time	Round
Monday 6 August 2012	10:39 11:51	Heats Semi-finals
Wednesday 8 August 2012	10:44	Finals

Results

Heats

The first boat from each heat and the fastest runner-up qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Hungary	1:35.769	Q
2	Jess Walker Rachel Cawthorn Angela Hannah Louisa Sawers	Great Britain	1:37.355
3	Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu	France	1:40.022
4	Yu Lamei Li Zhangli Ren Wenjun Liu Haiping	China	1:40.661
5	Antonia Horvat-Panda Antonija Nađ Renata Major-Kubik Marta Tibor	Serbia	1:40.756
6	Rach Lovell Hannah Davis Jo Brigden-Jones Lyndsie Fogarty	Australia	1:41.794

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Carolin Leonhardt Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze	Germany	1:31.633	Q
2	Teresa Portela Joana Vasconcelos Beatriz Gomes Helena Rodrigues	Portugal	1:32.785	Q
3	Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran	Belarus	1:33.676
4	Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova	Russia	1:33.680
5	Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk	Poland	1:35.843

Semifinal

The top five boats qualified for the final.

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk	Poland	1:30.338	Q, WB
2	Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran	Belarus	1:30.883	Q
3	Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova	Russia	1:31.824	Q
4	Jess Walker Rachel Cawthorn Angela Hannah Louisa Sawers	Great Britain	1:32.550	Q
5	Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu	France	1:33.303	Q
6	Rach Lovell Hannah Davis Jo Brigden-Jones Lyndsie Fogarty	Australia	1:33.671
7	Antonia Horvat-Panda Antonija Nađ Renata Major-Kubik Marta Tibor	Serbia	1:33.823
8	Yu Lamei Li Zhangli Ren Wenjun Liu Haiping	China	1:34.004

Final

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time
	Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Hungary	1:30.827
	Carolin Leonhardt Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze	Germany	1:31.298
	Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran	Belarus	1:31.400
4	Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk	Poland	1:31.607
5	Jess Walker Rachel Cawthorn Angela Hannah Louisa Sawers	Great Britain	1:33.055
6	Teresa Portela Joana Vasconcelos Beatriz Gomes Helena Rodrigues	Portugal	1:33.453
7	Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova	Russia	1:33.459
8	Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu	France	1:35.299

After winning three straight Olympic silvers in this event, Kovacs finally won her gold, beating out the German team led by Wagner-Augustin, who had won three straight Olympic golds in this event.