2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's VL2

Men's VL2 at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	22–25 August
Competitors	16 from 12 nations
Winning time	54.316
Medalists
Igor Alex Tofalini    Brazil   Luis Cardoso da Silva    Brazil   Marius Bogdan Ciustea    Italy
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2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canadian events
C-1 200m	men	women
C-1 500m	men	women
C-1 1000m	men
C-1 5000m	men	women
C-2 200m	men	women
C-2 500m	men	women
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 500m	men
Kayak events
K-1 200m	men	women
K-1 500m	men	women
K-1 1000m	men	women
K-1 5000m	men	women
K-2 200m	men	women
K-2 500m	men	women
K-2 1000m	men	women
K-4 500m	men	women
K-4 1000m	men
Paracanoe events
KL1	men	women
KL2	men	women
KL3	men	women
VL1	men	women
VL2	men	women
VL3	men	women
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The men's VL2 competition at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho took place at the Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho.^[1]

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

All times are Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)

The fastest three boats in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next four fastest boats in each heat, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the semifinal.^[3][4]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Luis Cardoso da Silva	Brazil	1:02.534	QF
2	Higinio Rivero	Spain	1:04.239	QF
3	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	1:05.024	QF
4	Róbert Suba	Hungary	1:06.564	QS
5	Jakub Tokarz	Poland	1:06.599	QS
6	Cyrille Hureau	France	1:09.175	QS
7	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	1:13.745	QS
–	Oleksandr Suprun	Ukraine	DNF
–	Andrei Tkachuk	Belarus	DNS

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marius Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	1:02.299	QF
2	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	1:02.849	QF
3	Roman Serebryakov	Russia	1:03.609	QF
4	Ilya Taupianets	Belarus	1:07.824	QS
5	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	1:09.514	QS
6	Raiarii Teuiau	Tahiti	1:13.879	QS
7	Floriano Jesus	Portugal	1:31.465	QS

The fastest three boats advanced to the final.^[5]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jakub Tokarz	Poland	1:00.768	QF
2	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	1:01.278	QF
3	Róbert Suba	Hungary	1:01.623	QF
4	Ilya Taupianets	Belarus	1:02.153
5	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	1:02.738
6	Cyrille Hureau	France	1:04.248
7	Raiarii Teuiau	Tahiti	1:11.329
8	Floriano Jesus	Portugal	1:21.214

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[6]

Rank	Name	Country	Time
	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	54.316
	Luis Cardoso da Silva	Brazil	54.911
	Marius Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	55.246
4	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	55.706
5	Roman Serebryakov	Russia	55.931
6	Róbert Suba	Hungary	56.266
7	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	56.606
8	Higinio Rivero	Spain	56.811
9	Jakub Tokarz	Poland	58.106