# 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-4 500 metres

The men's K-4 500 metres competition at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg took place in Sportpark Duisburg.

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:
| Date | Time | Round |
| Wednesday 23 August 2023 | 12:37 | Heats |
| Friday 25 August 2023 | 13:57 | Semifinals |
| Friday 25 August 2023 | 18:26 | Final A |
| Friday 25 August 2023 | 19:18 | Final B |

## Results
### Heats

The six fastest boats in each heat and three fastest 7th ranked boats advanced directly to the semi finals.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andjelo Dzombeta Marko Novaković Stefan Vrdoljak Vladimir Torubarov | Serbia | 1:19.276 | QS |
| 2 | Saúl Craviotto Carlos Arévalo Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade | Spain | 1:19.920 | QS |
| 3 | Manfredi Rizza Alessandro Gnecchi Giacomo Cinti Andrea Di Liberto | Italy | 1:20.422 | QS |
| 4 | Joao Ribeiro Messias Baptista Kevin Santos Emanuel Silva | Portugal | 1:20.461 | QS |
| 5 | Keiji Mizumoto Akihiro Inoue Taishi Tanada Seiji Komatsu | Japan | 1:21.689 | QS |
| 6 | Andrey Yerguchyov Bekarys Ramatulla Igor Ryashentsev Sergii Tokarnytskyi | Kazakhstan | 1:24.572 | QS |
| 7 | Rodion Tuigunov Vladislav Prokopov Erlan Sultangaziev Rysbek Tolomushev | Kyrgyzstan | 1:28.329 | QS |
| 8 | Luis López Ruben Londoño Yojan Cano Leocadio Pinto | Colombia | 1:30.203 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Danylenko Ihor Trunov Ivan Semykin | Ukraine | 1:19.614 | QS |
| 2 | Denis Myšák Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Adam Botek | Slovakia | 1:20.054 | QS |
| 3 | Jakub Špicar Jakub Brabec Jakub Zavřel Radek Šlouf | Czech Republic | 1:20.438 | QS |
| 4 | Guillaume Burger Maxime Beaumont Quilian Koch Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont | France | 1:20.599 | QS |
| 5 | Ali Aghamirzaei Sepehr Saatchy Pouria Sharifi Peyman Ghavidel Siah Sofiani | Iran | 1:22.879 | QS |
| 6 | Theodor Orban Hugo Lagerstam Karl Brodén Erik Andersson | Sweden | 1:24.345 | QS |
| 7 | Colbert Manson Philip Majumdar Nathan Humberston Zach Alva | United States | 1:31.182 | QS |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Bence Nádas Kolos Csizmadia István Kuli Sándor Tótka | Hungary | 1:19.569 | QS |
| 2 | Jakub Stepun Przemysław Korsak Wiktor Leszczyński Sławomir Witczak | Poland | 1:20.253 | QS |
| 3 | Victor Aasmul Lasse Madsen Morten Graversen Magnus Sibbersen | Denmark | 1:20.623 | QS |
| 4 | Max Brown Zach Ferkins Kurtis Imrie Hamish Legarth | New Zealand | 1:20.703 | QS |
| 5 | Cho Gwang-hee Jo Hyun-hee Jang Sang-won Jeong Ju-hwan | South Korea | 1:21.589 | QS |
| 6 | Manuel Lascano Gonzalo Lo Moro Gonzalo Carreras Agustín Rodríguez | Argentina | 1:22.352 | QS |
| | Cristian Canache Rafael Cardoza Ray Acuna Daniel Roman | Venezuela | DNS | DNS |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Max Rendschmidt Max Lemke Jacob Schopf Tom Liebscher-Lucz | Germany | 1:19.985 | QS |
| 2 | Simonas Maldonis Mindaugas Maldonis Ignas Navakauskas Artūras Seja | Lithuania | 1:20.827 | QS |
| 3 | Riley Fitzsimmons Pierre van der Westhuyzen Jackson Collins Noah Havard | Australia | 1:21.000 | QS |
| 4 | Nicholas Matveev Pierre-Luc Poulin Laurent Lavigne Simon McTavish | Canada | 1:21.088 | QS |
| 5 | Bu Tingkai Wang Congkang Zhang Dong Dong Yi | China | 1:22.216 | QS |
| 6 | Aldis Artūrs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs Roberts Akmens Kārlis Dumpis | Latvia | 1:27.046 | QS |
| 7 | Nitin Verma Prabhat Kumar Vishnu Reghunath Varinder Singh | India | 1:30.791 | QS |

### Semifinals

The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The next three fastest boats in each semifinal boats advanced to the B final.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andjelo Dzombeta Marko Novaković Stefan Vrdoljak Vladimir Torubarov | Serbia | 1:20.033 | QA |
| 2 | Riley Fitzsimmons Pierre van der Westhuyzen Jackson Collins Noah Havard | Australia | 1:20.184 | QA |
| 3 | Jakub Stepun Przemysław Korsak Wiktor Leszczyński Sławomir Witczak | Poland | 1:20.380 | QA |
| 4 | Nicholas Matveev Pierre-Luc Poulin Laurent Lavigne Simon McTavish | Canada | 1:20.616 | QB |
| 5 | Denis Myšák Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Adam Botek | Slovakia | 1:20.634 | QB |
| 6 | Cho Gwang-hee Jo Hyun-hee Jang Sang-won Jeong Ju-hwan | South Korea | 1:21.993 | QB |
| 7 | Keiji Mizumoto Akihiro Inoue Taishi Tanada Seiji Komatsu | Japan | 1:22.317 | |
| 8 | Theodor Orban Hugo Lagerstam Karl Brodén Erik Andersson | Sweden | 1:25.930 | |
| 9 | Rodion Tuigunov Vladislav Prokopov Erlan Sultangaziev Rysbek Tolomushev | Kyrgyzstan | 1:27.177 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Danylenko Ihor Trunov Ivan Semykin | Ukraine | 1:18.710 | QA |
| 2 | Simonas Maldonis Mindaugas Maldonis Ignas Navakauskas Artūras Seja | Lithuania | 1:19.181 | QA |
| 3 | Victor Aasmul Lasse Madsen Morten Graversen Magnus Sibbersen | Denmark | 1:19.480 | QA |
| 4 | Max Brown Zach Ferkins Kurtis Imrie Hamish Legarth | New Zealand | 1:19.864 | QB |
| 5 | Manfredi Rizza Alessandro Gnecchi Giacomo Cinti Andrea Di Liberto | Italy | 1:19.942 | QB |
| 6 | Aldis Artūrs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs Roberts Akmens Kārlis Dumpis | Latvia | 1:20.234 | QB |
| 7 | Joao Ribeiro Messias Baptista Kevin Santos Emanuel Silva | Portugal | 1:20.593 |
| 8 | Ali Aghamirzaei Sepehr Saatchy Pouria Sharifi Peyman Ghavidel Siah Sofiani | Iran | 1:22.773 | |
| 9 | Nitin Verma Prabhat Kumar Vishnu Reghunath Varinder Singh | India | 1:30.548 | |

#### Semifinal 3

| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Max Rendschmidt Max Lemke Jacob Schopf Tom Liebscher-Lucz | Germany | 1:19.193 | QB |
| 2 | Bence Nádas Kolos Csizmadia István Kuli Sándor Tótka | Hungary | 1:19.309 | QB |
| 3 | Saúl Craviotto Carlos Arévalo Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade | Spain | 1:19.479 | QS |
| 4 | Bu Tingkai Wang Congkang Zhang Dong Dong Yi | China | 1:20.581 | QB |
| 5 | Guillaume Burger Maxime Beaumont Quilian Koch Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont | France | 1:21.032 | QB |
| 6 | Jakub Špicar Jakub Brabec Jakub Zavřel Radek Šlouf | Czech Republic | 1:21.344 | QB |
| 7 | Manuel Lascano Gonzalo Lo Moro Gonzalo Carreras Agustín Rodríguez | Argentina | 1:22.608 | |
| 8 | Andrey Yerguchyov Bekarys Ramatulla Igor Ryashentsev Sergii Tokarnytskyi | Kazakhstan | 1:25.519 | |
| 9 | Colbert Manson Philip Majumdar Nathan Humberston Zach Alva | United States | 1:30.389 | |

### Finals
#### Final B

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.
| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time |
| 1 | Nicholas Matveev Pierre-Luc Poulin Laurent Lavigne Simon McTavish | Canada | 1:21.173 |
| 2 | Aldis Artūrs Vilde Aleksejs Rumjancevs Roberts Akmens Kārlis Dumpis | Latvia | 1:21.569 |
| 3 | Denis Myšák Samuel Baláž Csaba Zalka Adam Botek | Slovakia | 1:21.733 |
| 4 | Max Brown Zach Ferkins Kurtis Imrie Hamish Legarth | New Zealand | 1:22.036 |
| 5 | Bu Tingkai Wang Congkang Zhang Dong Dong Yi | China | 1:22.224 |
| 6 | Cho Gwang-hee Jo Hyun-hee Jang Sang-won Jeong Ju-hwan | South Korea | 1:22.368 |
| 7 | Guillaume Burger Maxime Beaumont Quilian Koch Guillaume Le Floch Decorchemont | France | 1:22.405 |
| 8 | Manfredi Rizza Alessandro Gnecchi Giacomo Cinti Andrea Di Liberto | Italy | 1:23.043 |
| 9 | Jakub Špicar Jakub Brabec Jakub Zavřel Radek Šlouf | Czech Republic | 1:28.714 |

#### Final A

Competitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.
| Rank | Canoeist | Country | Time |
| | Max Rendschmidt Max Lemke Jacob Schopf Tom Liebscher-Lucz | Germany | 1:19.183 |
| | Bence Nádas Kolos Csizmadia István Kuli Sándor Tótka | Hungary | 1:19.570 |
| | Oleh Kukharyk Dmytro Danylenko Ihor Trunov Ivan Semykin | Ukraine | 1:19.631 |
| 4 | Riley Fitzsimmons Pierre van der Westhuyzen Jackson Collins Noah Havard | Australia | 1:19.905 |
| 5 | Victor Aasmul Lasse Madsen Morten Graversen Magnus Sibbersen | Denmark | 1:20.149 |
| 6 | Simonas Maldonis Mindaugas Maldonis Ignas Navakauskas Artūras Seja | Lithuania | 1:20.164 |
| 7 | Saúl Craviotto Carlos Arévalo Marcus Walz Rodrigo Germade | Spain | 1:20.300 |
| 8 | Andjelo Dzombeta Marko Novaković Stefan Vrdoljak Vladimir Torubarov | Serbia | 1:20.540 |
| 9 | Jakub Stepun Przemysław Korsak Wiktor Leszczyński Sławomir Witczak | Poland | 1:21.383 |