Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's K-4 500 metres
The women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 6 and 8 August at Eton Dorney.
Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács and Krisztina Fazekas Zur, representing Hungary, won the gold medal. Germany's team won silver and Belarus took the bronze.
Competition format
The competition comprised three heats, a semi-finals, and a final. The first boat and second-best in each heat qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-final where the top five boats then qualified for the final.Schedule
All times are British Summer Time| Date | Time | Round |
| Monday 6 August 2012 | 10:39 11:51 | Heats Semi-finals |
| Wednesday 8 August 2012 | 10:44 | Finals |
Results
Heats
The first boat from each heat and the fastest runner-up qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-finals.Heat 1
Heat 2
Semifinal
The top five boats qualified for the final.| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Marta Walczykiewicz Aneta Konieczna Karolina Naja Beata Mikołajczyk | 1:30.338 | Q, WB | |
| 2 | Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran | 1:30.883 | Q | |
| 3 | Yuliana Salakhova Vera Sobetova Natalia Podolskaya Yulia Kachalova | 1:31.824 | Q | |
| 4 | Jess Walker Rachel Cawthorn Angela Hannah Louisa Sawers | 1:32.550 | Q | |
| 5 | Marie Delattre-Demory Joanne Mayer Sarah Guyot Gabrielle Tuleu | 1:33.303 | Q | |
| 6 | Rach Lovell Hannah Davis Jo Brigden-Jones Lyndsie Fogarty | 1:33.671 | ||
| 7 | Antonia Horvat-Panda Antonija Nađ Renata Major-Kubik Marta Tibor | 1:33.823 | ||
| 8 | Yu Lamei Li Zhangli Ren Wenjun Liu Haiping | 1:34.004 |