C-4, men, 500 m

What to remember

Canoe sprint keeps world best times, not world records. The ICF validates them only in finals, from a wide range of meets: the Games, the Worlds, World Cup stops, continental championships, and even other races judged technically strong enough.

This one came from a continental championship: on 9 June 2018, at the European Championships in Belgrade, the Russian C-4 of Pavel Petrov, Mikhail Pavlov, Viktor Melantyev and Ivan Shtyl covered the 500 m in 1 min 29.155 s.

Petrov, who began competing in canoe sprint in the late 2000s, had won bronze in the C-2 500 m at the 2010 World Championships in Poznań.