Editions
| Edition | Year | Host City | Host Country | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 [1] | 2019 [2] | Szeged |  Hungary | |
| 2 [3] | 2022 [4] | Bydgoszcz |  Poland | |
| 2 [5] [6] | 2024 [7] | Plovdiv |  Bulgaria |
The ICF Masters Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation.
| Edition | Year | Host City | Host Country | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 [1] | 2019 [2] | Szeged | Hungary | |
| 2 [3] | 2022 [4] | Bydgoszcz | Poland | |
| 2 [5] [6] | 2024 [7] | Plovdiv | Bulgaria |
Canoe slalom is a competitive sport with the aim to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of hanging downstream or upstream gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible. It is one of two kayak and canoeing disciplines at the Summer Olympics, and is referred to by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Canoe/Kayak Slalom. The other Olympic canoeing discipline is canoe sprint. Wildwater canoeing is a non-Olympic paddlesport.
Adam Joseph van Koeverden is a Canadian sprint kayaker and politician. He is an Olympic gold medallist in the K-1 500m category (2004) and a two-time world champion in K-1 500 (2007) and K-1 1000 (2011), winning four Olympic and eight world championship medals. His home club is the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario.
The International Canoe Federation (ICF) is the umbrella organization of all national canoe organizations worldwide. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and administers all aspects of canoe sport worldwide. 157 countries are affiliated with the ICF after seven national federations were added at the 2008 ICF Congress in Rome.
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today but is often used as a hypernym for both canoe marathon and canoe sprint. Similarly, the term 'canoeing' is used to describe both kayaking and canoeing.
The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation. They are usually held every non-Olympic year and have officially included paracanoe events since 2010; paracanoe-specific editions of this event are usually held in Summer Paralympic years.
Marcus Gross is a German canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s.
Alexander Igorevich Dyachenko is a banned Russian sprint canoeist.
Laurence Vincent Lapointe is a Canadian sprint canoer. She has won eleven gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, starting with the 2010 Poznań Championships, and most recently three gold medals at the 2018 Montemor-o-Velho Championships. She has also won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games, and silver and bronze medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Karolina Elżbieta Naja is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and silver medal in Women's K-2 500 metres.
Iulian Șerban was a Romanian paracanoeist who competed from the late 2000s onwards. He was a three time world champion, five time European champion and the first Romanian man to compete in canoeing in the Paralympics.
Ilya Alekseyevich Pervukhin is a Russian canoeist who has won medals at Olympic, World and European level.
Alfonso “Sete” Benavides López de Ayala is a Spanish sprint canoeist, a World and European medallist.
ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships is an International Canoe Federation competition in canoe marathon in which athletes compete over long distances. The race usually starts and ends at the same place, and includes portages. Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. In a kayak, the paddler is seated in the direction of travel, and uses a double-bladed paddle. In a canoe the paddler kneels on one knee with the other leg forward and foot flat on the floor inside the boat, and paddles a single-bladed paddle on one side only. The World Championships were held every two years from 1988, becoming annual in 1998.
Susan Seipel is an Australian Para-canoeist, a gold and bronze medallist in kayak and outrigger canoe at the 2015 and 2016 World Championships. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. another bronze medal at 2024 Summer Paralympics
Dylan Littlehales is an Australian paracanoeist. He competed for Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Helena Wiśniewska is a Polish sprint canoeist. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres. At the 2019 European Games, she won a bronze medal.
Katherin Nuevo Segura is a Cuban sprint canoeist.
The ICF Masters Canoe Marathon World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation.
The ICF Canoe Marathon World Cup is an annual season-long series of top level races in Canoe Marathon held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation.