Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's K-2 500 metres
These are the results of the women's K-2 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-person canoe sprint kayaks.
Medalists
Heats
The 15 teams first raced in two heats. The top three finishers in each heat advanced directly to the final, and the remaining nine teams advanced to the semifinal. No teams were eliminated in the heats. The heats were raced on August 24.| Heat | Place | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Katalin Kovács and Nataša Janić | 1:38.606 | QF | |
| 1 | 2 | Beatriz Manchon and Maria Teresa Portela | 1:41.338 | QF | |
| 1 | 3 | Caroline Brunet and Mylanie Barre | 1:43.434 | QF | |
| 1 | 4 | Shinobu Kitamoto and Yumiko Suzuki | 1:44.730 | QS | |
| 1 | 5 | Anne Laure Viard and Marie Delattre | 1:45.090 | QS | |
| 1 | 6 | Kathryn Colin and Lauren Spalding | 1:45.158 | QS | |
| 1 | 7 | Florica Vulpeş and Lidia Talpă | 1:45.386 | QS | |
| 1 | 8 | Natalya Sergeyeva and Ellina Uzhakhova | 1:46.710 | QS | |
| 2 | 1 | Birgit Fischer and Carolin Leonhardt | 1:39.588 | QF | |
| 2 | 2 | Xu Linbei and Zhong Hongyan | 1:40.943 | QF | |
| 2 | 3 | Aneta Pastuszka and Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza | 1:41.164 | QF | |
| 2 | 4 | Sofia Paldanius and Anna Karlsson | 1:44.059 | QS | |
| 2 | 5 | Delyana Dacheva and Bonka Pindzheva | 1:44.268 | QS | |
| 2 | 6 | Hanna Puchkova and Alena Bets | 1:45.279 | QS | |
| 2 | 7 | Paula Harvey and Susan Tegg | 1:46.319 | QS |