Icf Canoe Sprint 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.

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

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.

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.

  ICF Paracanoe World Championships (paracanoe events only)

• Events exclude Exhibition events.

Edition Year Host City Host Country Events 1 1938 Vaxholm   Sweden 12 2 1948 London   Great Britain 5 3 1950 Copenhagen   Denmark 15 4 1954 Mâcon   France 15 5 1958 Prague   Czechoslovakia 15 6 1963 Jajce   Yugoslavia 16 7 1966 East Berlin   East Germany 16 8 1970 Copenhagen   Denmark 16 9 1971 Belgrade   Yugoslavia 18 10 1973 Tampere   Finland 18 11 1974 Mexico City   Mexico 18 12 1975 Belgrade   Yugoslavia 18 13 1977 Sofia   Bulgaria 18 14 1978 Belgrade   Yugoslavia 18 15 1979 Duisburg   West Germany 18 16 1981 Nottingham   Great Britain 18 17 1982 Belgrade   Yugoslavia 18 18 1983 Tampere   Finland 18 19 1985 Mechelen   Belgium 18 20 1986 Montréal   Canada 18 21 1987 Duisburg   West Germany 18 22 1989 Plovdiv   Bulgaria 22 23 1990 Poznań   Poland 22 24 1991 Paris   France 22 25 1993 Copenhagen   Denmark 22 26 1994 Mexico City   Mexico 24 27 1995 Duisburg   Germany 24 28 1997 Dartmouth   Canada 26 29 1998 Szeged   Hungary 26 30 1999 Milan   Italy 26

Edition Year Host City Host Country Events 31 2001 Poznań   Poland 27 32 2002 Seville   Spain 27 33 2003 Gainesville   United States 27 34 2005 Zagreb   Croatia 27 35 2006 Szeged   Hungary 27 36 2007 Duisburg   Germany 27 37 2009 Dartmouth   Canada 27 38 2010 Poznań   Poland 28 + 7 39 2011 Szeged   Hungary 29 + 8 – 2012 Poznań   Poland 11 40 2013 Duisburg   Germany 29 + 12 41 2014 Moscow   Russia 29 + 12 42 2015 Milan   Italy 26 + 12 – 2016 Duisburg   Germany 12 43 2017 Račice   Czech Republic 27 + 12 44 2018 Montemor-o-Velho   Portugal 30 + 12 45 2019 Szeged   Hungary 30 + 12 – 2020 Duisburg   Germany – 46 2021 Copenhagen   Denmark 28 + 12 47 2022 Dartmouth   Canada 30 + 12 48 2023 Duisburg   Germany 30 + 12 49 2025 Milan   Italy

Note

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

• ICF Canoe Sprint Junior World Championships from 1985 to 2011
• ICF Canoe Sprint Junior and U23 World Championships from 2013

Source:

Edition Junior Edition U23 Year Host Events 1 - 1985   Castel Gandolfo, Italy 2 - 1987   Belgrade, Yugoslavia 3 - 1989   Dartmouth, Canada 4 - 1991   Vienna, Austria 5 - 1993   Racice, Czech Republic 6 - 1995   Yamanashi, Japan 7 - 1997   Lahti, Finland 8 - 1999   Zagreb, Croatia 9 - 2001   Curitiba, Brazil 10 - 2003   Komatsu, Japan 11 - 2005   Szeged, Hungary 12 - 2007   Racice, Czech Republic 13 - 2009   Moscow, Russia 14 - 2011   Brandenburg, Germany 23 + 0 15 1 2013   Welland, Canada 14 + 14

Edition Junior Edition U23 Year Host Events 16 2 2014   Szeged, Hungary 14 + 14 17 3 2015   Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal 16 + 16 18 4 2016   Minsk, Belarus 19 + 18 19 5 2017   Pitești, Romania 19 + 18 20 6 2018   Plovdiv, Bulgaria 19 + 18 21 7 2019   Pitești, Romania 18 + 18 - - 2020   Brandenburg, Germany Cancelled 22 8 2021   Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal 24 + 24 23 9 2022   Szeged, Hungary 26 + 26 24 10 2023   Auronzo, Italy

• List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's Canadian
• List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in women's Canadian
• List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's kayak
• List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in women's kayak
• List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in paracanoe

Canoe sprint (1938–2023) This medal table does not include exhibition events. The historical medal count of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships as of the 2023 championships is as follows: Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1   Hungary 228 172 154 554 2   Germany 141 113 87 341 3   Soviet Union 102 80 66 248 4   East Germany 73 36 36 145 5   Romania 54 78 68 200 6   Russia 54 55 49 158 7   Canada 40 24 28 92 8   Poland 36 94 80 210 9   Sweden 33 40 46 119 10   Belarus 32 35 38 105 11   Spain 26 35 43 104 12   New Zealand 23 11 5 39 13   Australia 19 22 19 60 14   Denmark 18 20 22 60 15   Italy 16 21 18 55 16   Slovakia 16 10 12 38 17   West Germany 13 19 24 56 18   Ukraine 13 14 34 61 19   Norway 13 14 15 42 20   Czech Republic 12 31 21 64 21   France 12 17 25 54 22   Great Britain 10 16 16 42 23   Bulgaria 9 16 26 51 24   Czechoslovakia 9 15 21 45 25   Lithuania 9 7 11 27 26   China 8 10 12 30 27   Yugoslavia 8 8 5 21 28   Portugal 7 9 7 23 29   United States 7 5 3 15 30   Finland 7 3 3 13 31   Brazil 7 1 7 15 32   Cuba 5 11 10 26 33   Austria 5 6 13 24 34   Azerbaijan 4 8 1 13 35   Serbia 3 6 13 22 36   Uzbekistan 3 3 8 14 37   Russian Canoe Federation 3 0 5 8 38   Chile 2 2 5 9 39   Israel 2 1 2 5 40   Latvia 2 0 2 4 41   Belgium 1 3 4 8 42   Moldova 1 2 4 7 43   Mexico 1 0 3 4 44   Saar 1 0 0 1   Serbia and Montenegro 1 0 0 1 46   Netherlands 0 4 4 8 47   Slovenia 0 3 5 8 48   Argentina 0 3 2 5 49   Georgia 0 2 1 3 50   Ireland 0 1 2 3 51   Croatia 0 1 1 2 52   South Africa 0 0 3 3 53   Kazakhstan 0 0 2 2 54   Iran 0 0 1 1   Japan 0 0 1 1 Totals (55 entries) 1089 1087 1093 3269

Paracanoe (2010–2023) This medal table does not include exhibition events. Events were occasionally excluded from their respective medal tables due to lack of participation, but are included in this overall table. The historical medal count of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships as of the 2023 championships is as follows: Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1   Great Britain 44 30 14 88 2   Australia 20 6 9 35 3   Brazil 19 15 16 50 4   Ukraine 15 7 12 34 5   Germany 8 9 5 22 6   Canada 6 9 6 21 7   Hungary 6 4 9 19 8   Austria 6 3 1 10 9   Italy 5 7 10 22 10   Romania 3 2 4 9 11   Russia 2 10 18 30 12   Spain 2 7 3 12 13   United States 2 6 5 13 14   Japan 2 2 2 6 15   Poland 1 8 7 16 16   French Polynesia 1 2 0 3 17   Uzbekistan 1 1 1 3 18   Russian Canoe Federation 1 1 0 2 19   China 1 0 0 1   Sweden 1 0 0 1 21   France 0 6 6 12 22   Chile 0 4 6 10 23   New Zealand 0 2 3 5 24   India 0 2 0 2 25   Portugal 0 1 2 3 26   Czech Republic 0 1 0 1 27   Algeria 0 0 1 1   Finland 0 0 1 1   Iran 0 0 1 1 Totals (29 entries) 146 145 142 433

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