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)