Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's K-4 500 metres

10 crews entered in two heats. The top three finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the finals while the remaining teams were relegated to the semifinal.

Heat 1 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Place	Overall	Nation	Athletes	Time	Qual.
1	1	Hungary	Rita Kőbán, Katalin Kovács, Szilvia Szabó, and Erzsébet Viski	1:33.312	QF
2	3	Belarus	Olesya Bakunova, Yelena Bet, Natalya Bondarenko, and Svetlana Vakula	1:34.734	QF
3	4	Spain	Izaskun Aramburu, Beatriz Manchón, Ana María Penas, and Belén Sánchez	1:35.298	QF
4	5	Ukraine	Hanna Balabanova, Olena Cherevatova, Nataliya Feklisova, and Mariya Ralcheva	1:35.454	QS
5	8	Russia	Nataliya Guly, Yelena Tissina, Olga Tishchenko, and Galina Poryvayeva	1:36.870	QS

Heat 2 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Place	Overall	Nation	Athletes	Time	Qual.
1	2	Germany	Katrin Wagner, Birgit Fischer, Anett Schuck, and Manuela Mucke	1:33.895	QF
2	6	Poland	Aneta Pastuszka, Joanna Skowroń, Aneta Michalak, and Beata Sokołowska	1:35.887	QF
3	7	Romania	Raluca Ioniță, Mariana Limbău, Elena Radu, and Sanda Toma	1:35.935	QF
4	9	Australia	Natalie Hunter, Amanda Simper, Kerri Randle, and Shelley Oates-Wilding	1:37.081	QS
5	10	Canada	Marie-Josée Gibeau-Ouimet, Carrie Lightbound, Julia Rivard, and Kamini Jain	1:38.580	QS

Overall Results Heats

Heats Overall Results
Place	Athlete	Nation	Heat	Place	Time	Qual.
1	Hungary	Rita Kőbán, Katalin Kovács, Szilvia Szabó, and Erzsébet Viski	1	1	1:33.312	QF
2	Germany	Katrin Wagner, Birgit Fischer, Anett Schuck, and Manuela Mucke	2	1	1:33.895	QF
3	Belarus	Olesya Bakunova, Yelena Bet, Natalya Bondarenko, and Svetlana Vakula	1	2	1:34.734	QF
4	Spain	Izaskun Aramburu, Beatriz Manchón, Ana María Penas, and Belén Sánchez	1	3	1:35.298	QF
5	Ukraine	Hanna Balabanova, Olena Cherevatova, Nataliya Feklisova, and Mariya Ralcheva	1	4	1:35.454	QS
6	Poland	Aneta Pastuszka, Joanna Skowroń, Aneta Michalak, and Beata Sokołowska	2	2	1:35.887	QF
7	Romania	Raluca Ioniță, Mariana Limbău, Elena Radu, and Sanda Toma	2	3	1:35.935	QF
8	Russia	Nataliya Guly, Yelena Tissina, Olga Tishchenko, and Galina Poryvayeva	1	5	1:36.870	QS
9	Australia	Natalie Hunter, Amanda Simper, Kerri Randle, and Shelley Oates-Wilding	2	4	1:37.081	QS
10	Canada	Marie-Josée Gibeau-Ouimet, Carrie Lightbound, Julia Rivard, and Kamini Jain	2	5	1:38.580	QS

The top three finishers in the semifinal advanced to the final.

Heat 1 of 1 Date: Thursday 28 September 2000
Place	Nation	Athletes	Time	Qual.
1	Ukraine	Hanna Balabanova, Olena Cherevatova, Nataliya Feklisova, and Mariya Ralcheva	1:37.704	QF
2	Russia	Nataliya Guly, Yelena Tissina, Olga Tishchenko, and Galina Poryvayeva	1:38.262	QF
3	Canada	Marie-Josée Gibeau-Ouimet, Carrie Lightbound, Julia Rivard, and Kamini Jain	1:38.340	QF
4	Australia	Natalie Hunter, Amanda Simper, Kerri Randle, and Shelley Oates-Wilding	1:38.580

Heat 1 of 1 Date: Saturday 30 September 2000
Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Germany	Katrin Wagner, Birgit Fischer, Anett Schuck, and Manuela Mucke	1:34.532
	Hungary	Rita Kőbán, Katalin Kovács, Szilvia Szabó, and Erzsébet Viski	1:34.946
	Romania	Raluca Ioniță, Mariana Limbău, Elena Radu, and Sanda Toma	1:37.010
4	Poland	Aneta Pastuszka, Joanna Skowroń, Aneta Michalak, and Beata Sokołowska	1:37.076
5	Ukraine	Hanna Balabanova, Olena Cherevatova, Nataliya Feklisova, and Mariya Ralcheva	1:37.544
6	Belarus	Olesya Bakunova, Yelena Bet, Natalya Bondarenko, and Svetlana Vakula	1:37.748
7	Russia	Nataliya Guly, Yelena Tissina, Olga Tishchenko, and Galina Poryvayeva	1:38.624
8	Spain	Izaskun Aramburu, Beatriz Manchón, Ana María Penas, and Belén Sánchez	1:38.654
9	Canada	Marie-Josée Gibeau-Ouimet, Carrie Lightbound, Julia Rivard, and Kamini Jain	1:39.566

Fischer became the first woman in any sport to win Olympic gold medals 20 years apart with this event and the first woman to win gold medals in five different Olympics in any sport. Kőbán's silver medal brought her career total to six: 2 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze.

• 2000 Summer Olympics Canoe flatwater results. (in English and French)
• Sports-reference.com women's 2000 K-4 500 m results.
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Fours 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 495.