C-2, men, 1000 m

What to remember

Olympic final, Tokyo, 3 August 2021: Cubans Serguey Torres and Fernando Jorge won the C-2 1000 m in 3 min 24.995 s, a time that became the event's world best.

For Torres, the title crowned a long career in the two-man canoe. He finished ninth, sixth and sixth in the C-2 1000 m at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics before taking gold at his fourth Games. At the ICF World Championships he had won two silvers in the C-2 1000 m, in 2005 and 2007, and two bronzes in 2007, in the C-2 200 m and C-2 500 m.

The ICF only acknowledges canoe sprint world best times set in finals of major events, the Olympic Games among them.