Following are the semifinal results of the flatwater canoe double (C2) 500m at the Olympic Games on Thursday (top 3 to final, rest out):
1. Losif Chirila/Andrei Cuculici, Romania, 1 minute 42.545
2. Deyan Georgiev/Adnan Aliev, Bulgaria, 1:42.891
3. Andrew Russell/G. Beauchesne-Sevigny, Canada, 1:42.921
4. Raimundas Labuckas/Tomas Gadeikis, Lithuania, 1:43.299
5. Serguey Torres/Karel Aguilar, Cuba, 1:43.673
6. Bertrand Hemonic/William Tchamba, France, 1:43.874
7. Kaisar Nurmaganbetov/Alexandr Dyadchuk, Kazakhstan, 1:44.992
8. Matyas Safran/Mihaly Zoltan Safran, Hungary, 1:45.032
9. Jose Everardo/Dimas Camilo, Mexico, 1:48.853
(Xinhua News Agency August 21, 2008)