2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's VL2

Men's VL2
at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint
World Championships
Men's VL2 ; at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint; World Championships
Venue	Sportpark Duisburg
Location	Duisburg, Germany
Dates	23–26 August
Competitors	19 from 16 nations
Winning time	50.344
Medalists
	← 2022

The men's VL2 competition at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg took place at Sportpark Duisburg.

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[1]

The fastest boat in each heat advanced directly to the final. The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinal^[2]^[3]^[4]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	51.727	QA
2	Higinio Rivero	Spain	54.236	QS
3	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	54.264	QS
4	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	56.922	QS
5	Takanori Kato	Japan	1:02.718	QS
6	Santi Wantawee	Thailand	1:04.843	QS
7	Moritz Berthold	Germany	1:17.233	QS

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fernando Rufino de Paulo	Brazil	52.579	QA
2	Róbert Suba	Hungary	54.386	QS
3	Andrii Kryvchun	Ukraine	56.356	QS
4	Eslam Jahedi	Iran	57.504	QS
5	Anas Al Khalifa	Germany	1:01.032	QS
6	Miroslav Šperk	Czech Republic	1:05.319	QS

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Steven Haxton	United States	53.301	QA
2	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	54.173	QS
3	Edward Clifton	Great Britain	55.774	QS
4	Marius-Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	1:00.355	QS
5	Gajendra Singh	India	1:03.621	QS
6	Yuta Takagi	Japan	1:06.652	QS

The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next four fastest boats in each semi and best 8th advanced to the final B.^[5]^[6]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Higinio Rivero	Spain	53.437	QA
2	Andrii Kryvchun	Ukraine	54.383	QA
3	Edward Clifton	Great Britain	54.701	QA
4	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	55.027	QB
5	Marius-Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	58.732	QB
6	Anas Al Khalifa	Germany	58.959	QB
7	Santi Wantawee	Thailand	1:03.006	QB
8	Yuta Takagi	Japan	1:10.905	qB

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Róbert Suba	Hungary	52.175	QA
2	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	53.012	QA
3	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	54.225	QA
4	Eslam Jahedi	Iran	55.613	QB
5	Miroslav Šperk	Czech Republic	1:00.947	QB
6	Takanori Kato	Japan	1:02.950	QB
7	Gajendra Singh	India	1:04.283	QB
8	Moritz Berthold	Germany	1:16.39

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.^[7]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time
1	Tamás Juhász	Hungary	56.864
2	Eslam Jahedi	Iran	57.149
3	Marius-Bogdan Ciustea	Italy	59.092
4	Anas Al Khalifa	Germany	1:00.531
5	Miroslav Šperk	Czech Republic	1:02.590
6	Gajendra Singh	India	1:02.716
7	Santi Wantawee	Thailand	1:02.963
8	Takanori Kato	Japan	1:05.667
9	Yuta Takagi	Japan	1:08.001

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[8]

Rank	Canoeist	Country	Time
	Fernando Rufino de Paulo	Brazil	50.344
	Igor Alex Tofalini	Brazil	51.229
	Steven Haxton	United States	52.089
4	Róbert Suba	Hungary	52.848
5	Norberto Mourão	Portugal	53.143
6	Higinio Rivero	Spain	54.137
7	Andrii Kryvchun	Ukraine	54.246
8	Mathieu St-Pierre	Canada	54.411
9	Edward Clifton	Great Britain	55.382

^ "ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships 2023 Schedule". kanuduisburg.de. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - 1st Heat". kanuduisburg.de. Archived from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - 2nd Heat". kanuduisburg.de. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - 3rd Heat". kanuduisburg.de. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - Semifinal 1". Spotfokus. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - Semifinal 2". Spotfokus. Archived from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - Final B". Spotfokus. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ "VL2 Men 200m - Final A". Spotfokus. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.