World Record: Sjinkie Knegt, Netherlands 2:07.943 Salt Lake City, United States 13 Nov 2016 
 Olympic Record: Lee Jung-Su, South Korea 2:10.949 Vancouver, Canada 13 Feb 2010
 
| Final A 21:26 | time | Note |  | 1. Lim Hyo-jun |  South Korea | 2:10.485 | OR Gold |  | 2. Sjinkie Knegt |  Netherlands | 2:10.555 | Silver  |  | 3. Semion Elistratov |  OA Russia | 2:10.687 | Bronze  |  | 4. Samuel Girard |  Canada | 2:11.176 |   |  | 5. Shaolin Sándor Liu |  Hungary | 2:11.520 |   |  | 6. Itzhak de Laat |  Netherlands | 2:12.362 |   |  | 7. Thibaut Fauconnet |  France | 2:53.150 |   |  | 13.Charles Hamelin |  Canada | 2:11.573 | PEN |  | 14.Hwang Dae-heon |  South Korea |   | DNF |   
| Final B 21:22 | time | Note |  | 8. Han Tianyu |  China | 2:26.281 |   |  | 9. Seo Yi-ra |  South Korea | 2:26.346 |   |  | 10.Pascal Dion |  Canada | 2:26.412 |   |  | 11.Roberto Puķītis |  Latvia | 2:26.525 |   |  | 12.Aaron Tran |  United States | 2:27.127 |   |   
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 Semifinals - Saturday 10.02 20:21  |  | First 2 progress to Final A. 3rd and 4th to Final B. Samuel Girard (CAN) and Shaolin Sándor Liu (CHN) received advances to Final A. |   
| Semi 1 20:21 | time | Note |  | 1. Semion Elistratov |  OA Russia | 2:11.003 | QA |  | 2. Charles Hamelin |  Canada | 2:11.124 | QA |  | 3. Seo Yi-ra |  South Korea | 2:11.126 | QB |  | 4. Roberto Puķītis |  Latvia | 2:11.165 | QB |  | 5. Andy Jung |  Australia | 2:11.183 |   |  | 6. Samuel Girard |  Canada | DNF | ADV |  | -. J. R. Celski |  United States | 2:12.247 | PEN |   
| Semi 2 20:25 | time | Note |  | 1. Sjinkie Knegt |  Netherlands | 2:11.900 | QA |  | 2. Thibaut Fauconnet |  France | 2:12.049 | QA |  | 3. Pascal Dion |  Canada | 2:12.640 | QB |  | 4. Aaron Tran |  United States | 2:13.487 | QB |  | 5. Shaolin Sándor Liu |  Hungary | 2:45.709 | ADV |  | 6. Jens Almey |  Belgium | 3:02.570 |   |  | -. John-Henry Krueger |  United States | 2:20.677 | PEN |   
| Semi 3 20:29 | time | Note |  | 1. Lim Hyo-jun |  South Korea | 2:11.389 | QA |  | 2. Hwang Dae-heon |  South Korea | 2:11.469 | QA |  | 3. Itzhak de Laat |  Netherlands | 2:11.781 | ADV |  | 4. Han Tianyu |  China | 2:11.827 | QB |  | 5. Sébastien Lepape |  France | 2:11.967 |   |  | 6. Xu Hongzhi |  China | 2:19.310 |   |  | -. Shaoang Liu |  Hungary | 2:17.922 | PEN |  | -. Wu Dajing |  China | 3:09.660 | PEN |   
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 Heats - Saturday 10.02 19:00  |  | First 3 advanced to Semifinals. Andy Jung (AUS), Han Tianyu (CHN), Pascal Dion (CAN) and Xu Hongzhi (CHN) received Advance. |   
| Heat 1 19:00 | time | Note |  | 1. Shaolin Sándor Liu |  Hungary | 2:12.835 | Q |  | 2. Samuel Girard |  Canada | 2:12.923 | Q |  | 3. Semion Elistratov |  OA Russia | 2:13.087 | Q |  | 4. Hiroki Yokoyama |  Japan | 2:13.323 |   |  | 5. Ward Pétré |  Belgium | 2:17.362 |   |  | -. Farrell Treacy |  Great Britain | 2:34.640 | DNF |   
| Heat 2 19:04 | time | Note |  | 1. Charles Hamelin |  Canada | 2:12.130 | Q |  | 2. Jens Almey |  Belgium | 2:12.998 | Q |  | 3. Aaron Tran |  United States | 2:14.133 | Q |  | 4. Andy Jung |  Australia | 2:16.995 | ADV |  | 5. Han Tianyu |  China | 2:38.865 | ADV |  | -. Yuri Confortola |  Italy | 2:39.977 | PEN |   
| Heat 3 19:08 | time | Note |  | 1. Hwang Dae-heon |  South Korea | 2:15.561 | Q |  | 2. Itzhak de Laat |  Netherlands | 2:15.691 | Q |  | 3. Wu Dajing |  China | 2:15.823 | Q |  | 4. Tommaso Dotti |  Italy | 2:16.177 |   |  | 5. Pascal Dion |  Canada | 2:16.856 | ADV |  | 6. Choe Un-song |  North Korea | 2:18.213 |   |  | -. Vladislav Bykanov |  Israel | DNF | PEN |   
| Heat 4 19:12 | time | Note |  | 1. Lim Hyo-jun |  South Korea | 2:13.891 | Q |  | 2. Sébastien Lepape |  France | 2:13.965 | Q |  | 3. Shaoang Liu |  Hungary | 2:14.160 | Q |  | 4. Denis Nikisha |  Kazakhstan | 2:14.847 |   |  | 5. Maksim Siarheyeu |  Belarus | 2:15.242 |   |  | -. Kazuki Yoshinaga |  Japan | 2:14.101 | PEN |   
| Heat 5 19:16 | time | Note |  | 1. Seo Yi-ra |  South Korea | 2:18.750 | Q |  | 2. Roberto Puķītis |  Latvia | 2:18.825 | Q |  | 3. Celski J. R. |  United States | 2:19.028 | Q |  | 4. Keita Watanabe |  Japan | 2:19.205 |   |  | 5. Csaba Burján |  Hungary | 2:19.284 |   |  | 6. Aleksandr Shulginov |  OA Russia | 2:19.308 |   |   
| Heat 6 19:20 | time | Note |  | 1. John-Henry Krueger |  United States | 2:15.671 | Q |  | 2. Thibaut Fauconnet |  France | 2:15.768 | Q |  | 3. Sjinkie Knegt |  Netherlands | 2:15.949 | Q |  | 4. Pavel Sitnikov |  OA Russia | 2:33.653 |   |  | 5. Xu Hongzhi |  China | 2:35.641 | ADV |  | -. Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev |  Kazakhstan | 3:04.850 | DNF |   
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|  Positions |  | KOR 1. 9. 14. |  | NED 2. 6. |  | OAR 3. 27. 32. |  | CAN 4. 10. 13. |  | HUN 5. 20. 30. |  | FRA 7. 15. |  | CHN 8. 18. 21. |  | LAT 11. |  | USA 12. 19. 22. |  | AUS 16. |  | BEL 17. 29. |  | JPN 23. 26. P |  | KAZ 24. |  | ITA 25. P |  | BLR 28. |  | PRK 31. |  | GBR 33. |  | KAZ 33. |  | ISR P |   
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