ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). The World Championships have taken place every non-Olympic year since 1970 and officially included paracanoe events since 2010; since 2012, paracanoe-specific editions of this event (named ICF Paracanoe World Championships) have been held in Summer Paralympic years.

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Statusactive
Genresporting event
Date(s)mid-year
Frequencyannual
Countryvarying
Inaugurated1938 (1938)

Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing.

Explanation of events

Canoe sprint competitions are broken up into canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in kayaks (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200 metres (660 ft), 500 metres (1,600 ft), 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), or 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) long. When a competition is listed as a C-2 500 m event as an example, it means two people are in a canoe competing at a 500 metres (1,600 ft) distance.[1]

Paracanoe competitions are contested in either a va'a (V), an outrigger canoe (which includes a second pontoon) with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (as above). All international competitions are held over 200 metres in single-man boats, with three event classes in both types of vessel for men and women depending on the level of an athlete's impairment. The lower the classification number, the more severe the impairment is – for example, VL1 is a va'a competition for those with particularly severe impairments.[2]

Summary

  ICF Paracanoe World Championships (paracanoe events only)

  • Events exclude Exhibition events.
Edition Year Host City Host Country Events
1 1938Vaxholm Sweden12
2 1948London Great Britain5
3 1950Copenhagen Denmark15
4 1954Mâcon France15
5 1958Prague Czechoslovakia15
6 1963Jajce Yugoslavia16
7 1966East Berlin East Germany16
8 1970Copenhagen Denmark16
9 1971Belgrade Yugoslavia18
10 1973Tampere Finland18
11 1974Mexico City Mexico18
12 1975Belgrade Yugoslavia18
13 1977Sofia Bulgaria18
14 1978Belgrade Yugoslavia18
15 1979Duisburg West Germany18
16 1981Nottingham Great Britain18
17 1982Belgrade Yugoslavia18
18 1983Tampere Finland18
19 1985Mechelen Belgium18
20 1986Montréal Canada18
21 1987Duisburg West Germany18
22 1989Plovdiv Bulgaria22
23 1990Poznań Poland22
24 1991Paris France22
25 1993Copenhagen Denmark22
26 1994Mexico City Mexico24
27 1995Duisburg Germany24
28 1997Dartmouth Canada26
29 1998Szeged Hungary26
30 1999Milan Italy26
Edition Year Host City Host Country Events
31 2001Poznań Poland27
32 2002Seville Spain27
33 2003Gainesville United States27
34 2005Zagreb Croatia27
35 2006Szeged Hungary27
36 2007Duisburg Germany27
37 2009Dartmouth Canada27
38 2010Poznań Poland28 + 7
39 2011Szeged Hungary29 + 8
– 2012Poznań Poland11
40 2013Duisburg Germany29 + 12
41 2014Moscow Russia29 + 12
42 2015Milan Italy26 + 12
– 2016Duisburg Germany12
43 2017Račice Czech Republic27 + 12
44 2018Montemor-o-Velho Portugal30 + 12
45 2019Szeged Hungary30 + 12
– 2020Duisburg Germany–
46 2021Copenhagen Denmark28 + 12
47 2022Dartmouth Canada
48 2023Duisburg Germany
49 2025Milan Italy

Note
  • The 2020 ICF Paracanoe World Championships were cancelled as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Lists of medalists

Medal tables
Note
  1. As Russia was banned from the 2021 World Championships, their athletes' medals were assigned to the Russian Canoe Federation.
  2. Therese Zens represented Saar when she won a gold medal in 1954. This is recorded for West Germany in the official tables.

See also

References
  1. "What is Canoe Sprint?". International Canoe Federation. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  2. "What is Paracanoe?". International Canoe Federation. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  3. "ICF updates status of events due to coronavirus concerns". Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
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