The women’s canoe sprint K-2 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 7 and 9 August at Eton Dorney.Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze representing Germany won the gold medal. Hungary’s Katalin Kovács and Nataša Dušev-Janić took silver and the bronze medal was won by Karolina Naja and Beata Mikołajczyk from Poland.