Peter Hochschorner is a Slovak slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 1996. Competing together with his twin brother Pavol Hochschorner, they are the most successful C2 paddlers in the history of canoe slalom.
The ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non-Summer Olympic years since 2002. From 1949 to 1999, they had taken place in odd-numbered years. The 2001 championships were scheduled to take place in Ducktown, Tennessee from 20 to 23 September, but were canceled in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
The 1957 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Augsburg, West Germany under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 5th edition. The Mixed C2 team event debuted at these championships.
The 1981 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Bala, Wales, Great Britain under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 17th edition. The mixed C2 event was reinstated after not being held at the previous championships.
Jan Mašek is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 1995.
Václav Janoušek is a Czechoslovak retired slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s. He won two medals at the 1965 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal with a gold in the Mixed C2 event and a silver in the Mixed C2 team event.
René Gavinet is a retired French slalom canoeist who competed in the 1940s and the 1950s.
Brigitte Schmidt is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-to-late 1950s. She won two gold medals at the 1957 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg, earning them in the mixed C-2 event and the mixed C-2 team event.
Waltraud Schale is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. She won two medals at the 1957 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg with a gold in the mixed C-2 team event and a bronze in the mixed C-2 event.
Jaroslava "Jarka" Lutz (née Krčálová is a Czechoslovak-French retired slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lipno nad Vltavou representing Czechoslovakia. She married French slalom canoeist Claude Lutz in December 1967 and continued competing with him in C-2 Mixed. Together they won two silver medals at the 1969 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bourg St.-Maurice.
Jitka Traplová is a Czechoslovak retired slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. She won gold medals in the mixed C-2 event and the mixed C-2 team event at the 1969 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bourg St.-Maurice.
Claude Lutz is a French retired slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-to-late 1960s. With his wife Jarka Lutz, he won two silver medals at the 1969 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bourg St.-Maurice. He also won a bronze medal at the 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lipno.
Denis Gargaud Chanut is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level in C1 since 2004. Between 2009 and 2011 he also competed in the C2 category alongside Fabien Lefèvre. He won a gold medal in the C1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup is an annual series of races in canoe slalom held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. It has been held since 1988 in four canoe and kayak disciplines for men and women. The four original disciplines were men's single canoe (C1), men's double canoe (C2), men's kayak (K1) and women's kayak. A women's single canoe discipline (C1) has been added to the world cup in 2010. The men's C2 event was removed from the world cup series in 2018 and it was replaced by the mixed C2 event. 2018 was also the first time that world cup points were awarded for the extreme K1 event.
The 2017 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships was the 38th edition of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. The event took place from 22 September to 1 October 2017 in Pau, France under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF) at the Pau-Pyrénées Whitewater Stadium. Pau was also hosting the Wildwater canoeing world championships as part of the same event.
Jakub Jáně is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006.
Yves Prigent is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2011.
The 2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were the 39th edition of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. The event took place from 25 to 30 September 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF). The competitions were held at the Deodoro Olympic Whitewater Stadium which had also hosted the canoe slalom events of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The 2018 European Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Prague, Czech Republic under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was the 19th edition of the competition and Prague hosted the event for the first time. The events took place at the Prague-Troja Canoeing Centre from 1 to 3 June 2018.
Aleksandra Stach is a Polish slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2015.
