Men's K-2 200 metres at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho
Location	Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
Dates	23–25 August
Competitors	34 from 17 nations
Winning time	31.873
Medalists
Márk Balaska Balázs Birkás    Hungary   Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro    Spain   Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković    Serbia
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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 K-2 200 metres 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	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kirill Lyapunov Alexander Dyachenko	Russia	32.000	QF
2	Márk Balaska Balázs Birkás	Hungary	32.070	QF
3	Edvinas Ramanauskas Ignas Navakauskas	Lithuania	32.390	QF
4	Riccardo Maria Spotti Andrea di Liberto	Italy	32.675	QS
5	Franck Le Moël Francis Mouget	France	32.875	QS
6	Kevin Santos Hugo Figueiras	Portugal	34.725	QS
7	Vitalii Brezitskyi Vasyl Chedryk	Ukraine	35.900	QS
8	Abdelmajid Jabbour Ossama Bousserra	Morocco	40.205

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro	Spain	32.203	QF
2	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	32.313	QF
3	Paweł Kaczmarek Piotr Mazur	Poland	33.038	QF
4	Filip Šváb Ondřej Bišický	Czech Republic	33.533	QS
5	Mark de Jonge Alex Scott	Canada	33.838	QS
6	Nicholas Weeks David Rodrigues	South Africa	33.883	QS
7	Trevor Thomson Stelian Naftanaila	Great Britain	34.053	QS
8	Theodor Orban David Johansson	Sweden	34.438	qS
9	Edvards Ceipe Kristofers Lamberts	Latvia	34.588

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Franck Le Moël Francis Mouget	France	33.530	QF
2	Riccardo Maria Spotti Andrea di Liberto	Italy	33.540	QF
3	Filip Šváb Ondřej Bišický	Czech Republic	34.385	QF
4	Nicholas Weeks David Rodrigues	South Africa	34.715
5	Theodor Orban David Johansson	Sweden	34.730
6	Mark de Jonge Alex Scott	Canada	34.895
7	Trevor Thomson Stelian Naftanaila	Great Britain	34.905
8	Kevin Santos Hugo Figueiras	Portugal	35.975
9	Vitalii Brezitskyi Vasyl Chedryk	Ukraine	37.460

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

Rank	Kayakers	Country	Time
	Márk Balaska Balázs Birkás	Hungary	31.873
	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro	Spain	32.133
	Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Serbia	32.156
4	Kirill Lyapunov Alexander Dyachenko	Russia	32.233
5	Paweł Kaczmarek Piotr Mazur	Poland	32.753
6	Edvinas Ramanauskas Ignas Navakauskas	Lithuania	32.790
7	Riccardo Maria Spotti Andrea di Liberto	Italy	32.823
8	Filip Šváb Ondřej Bišický	Czech Republic	33.136
9	Franck Le Moël Francis Mouget	France	33.213