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
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Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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K-1 500m		women
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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.^[1]

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.

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.^[2]

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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