2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Lake Malta (Maltánski Reservoir)
Location	Poznań, Poland
Dates	26–30 August

The 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held from 26 to 30 August 2026 on Lake Malta, in Poznań, Poland.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Poland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	0	2	7
2	Hungary	4	7	1	12
3	Australia	2	1	2	5
	China	2	1	2	5
5	Portugal	2	1	1	4
6	Czech Republic	1	1	3	5
7	AIN-A	1	1	1	3
	Canada	1	1	1	3
9	Brazil	1	1	0	2
	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
11	AIN-B	1	0	4	5
12	Denmark	1	0	2	3
	Poland*	1	0	2	3
14	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
16	Spain	0	3	3	6
17	Uzbekistan	0	2	0	2
18	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	South Africa	0	1	0	1
21	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		25	23	25	73

• AIN-A & AIN-B refers to Individual neutral athletes A and Individual neutral athletes B, the designations allowing for athletes from Russia (AIN-A) and Belarus (AIN-B) to compete.

Men

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C–1 200 m	Oleksii Koliadych Poland	40.95	Artur Guliev Uzbekistan	41.05	Andrei Zholabau AIN-B	41.15
C–1 500 m	Isaquias Queiroz Brazil	1:46.08	Martin Fuksa Czech Republic	1:46.32	Ji Bowen China	1:47.10
C–1 1000 m	Dániel Fejes Hungary Martin Fuksa Czech Republic	4:07.44	None awarded		Zakhar Petrov AIN-A	4:07.46
C–1 5000 m	Balázs Adolf Hungary	27:16.73	Jaime Duro Spain	27:47.15	Robin Hirsch Czech Republic	28:18.58
C–2 500 m	AIN-A Zakhar Petrov Ivan Shtyl	1:39.23	Brazil Gabriel Assunção Jacky Godmann	1:39.81	Hungary Kristóf Kollár István Juhász	1:40.03
C–4 500 m	Hungary Kristóf Kollár István Juhász Jonatán Hajdu Dániel Fejes	1:29.44	AIN-A Alexey Korovashkov Aleksandr Bots Dmitrii Sharov Matvei Arsenov	1:30.69	Spain Cayetano García Pablo Martínez Manuel Fontán Diego Domínguez	1:30.97

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K–1 200 m	Andrea Di Liberto Italy	34.15	Marko Dragosavljević Serbia	34.72	Carlos Arévalo Spain	34.98
K–1 500 m	Thomas Green Australia	1:37.66	Ádám Varga Hungary	1:38.07	Alex Borucki Poland	1:38.95
K–1 1000 m	Fernando Pimenta Portugal	3:24.39	Bálint Kopasz Hungary	3:24.61	Thomas Green Australia	3:25.80
K–1 5000 m	Fernando Pimenta Portugal	24:15.72	Hamish Lovemore South Africa	24:17.17	Mads Pedersen Denmark	24:18.17
K–2 500 m	Germany Jacob Schopf Max Lemke	1:27.57	Portugal João Ribeiro Messias Baptista	1:29.29	Czech Republic Jakub Špicar Daniel Havel	1:29.94
K–4 500 m	Germany Max Rendschmidt Max Lemke Jacob Schopf Tom Liebscher	1:23.95	Australia Jean van der Westhuyzen Pierre van der Westhuyzen Riley Fitzsimmons Noah Havard	1:24.57	Portugal Gustavo Gonçalves João Ribeiro Messias Baptista Pedro Casinha	1:25.53

Women

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C–1 200 m	Liudmyla Luzan Ukraine	44.40	Sophia Jensen Canada	44.90	Nevin Harrison United States	45.04
C–1 500 m	Sophia Jensen Canada	2:00.78	Ágnes Kiss Hungary	2:02.80	Alena Nazdrova AIN-B	2:04.80
C–1 5000 m	Carlotta Loske Germany	31:15.19	Zsófia Csorba Hungary	31:45.85	Maryia Papichych AIN-B	31:47.48
C–2 200 m	AIN-B Yuliya Trushkina Inna Nedelkina	42.26	Uzbekistan Shokhsanam Sherzodova Nilufar Zokirova	42.52	China Shuai Changwen Lin Wenjun	42.65
C–2 500 m	Germany Carlotta Loske Maike Jakob	2:01.65	Ukraine Liudmyla Luzan Anastasiia Rybachok	2:02.28	AIN-B Anhelina Bardanouskaya Inna Nedelkina	2:02.67
C–4 500 m	China Jiang Xina Teng Anshuo Sun Mengya Ma Yanan	1:45.68	Hungary Ágnes Kiss Bianka Nagy Réka Opavszky Zsófia Csorba	1:46.61	Canada Zoe Wojtyk Élizabeth Desrosiers-McArthur Sloan MacKenzie Katie Vincent	1:48.17

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K–1 200 m	Frederikke Mørcke Denmark	39.71	Anna Lucz Hungary	40.31	Sara Ouzande Spain	40.71
K–1 500 m	Pauline Jagsch Germany	1:47.55	Aimee Fisher New Zealand	1:48.02	Natalia Drobot Australia Anna Pulawska Poland	1:48.58
K–1 1000 m	Zsóka Csikós Hungary	4:11.95	Laia Pelachs Spain	4:14.76	Pernille Knudsen Denmark	4:17.30
K–1 5000 m	Melina Andersson Sweden	27:19.42	Emese Kőhalmi Hungary	27:51.18	Katerina Milová Czech Republic	27:52.07
K–2 500 m	Australia Kailey Harlen Natalia Drobot	1:39.54	China Yu Shimeng Yin Mengdie	1:41.19	Germany Paulina Paszek Pauline Jagsch	1:41.20
K–4 500 m	China Yu Shimeng Yin Mengdie Wang Nan Shen Siyu	1:38.67	Spain Sara Ouzande Lucía Val Daniela García Bárbara Pardo	1:39.91	Germany Paulina Paszek Finja Hermanussen Pauline Jagsch Nele Reinwardt	1:39.93

External links

• ICF event site