The 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships was the thirty-ninth edition of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, that took place between 17–21 August 2011 in Szeged, Hungary. The Southern Hungarian city welcomed the world event for the third time, having hosted the championship previously in 1998 and 2006. These championships were awarded initially to Vichy, France, however, the race course on the Allier proved to be inadequate to hold the competition and the French Canoe Federation withdraw from organizing the event, following that Szeged, the original host of the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, was moved up to 2011.
These are the results of the men's K-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks. Heats and final took place on July 28.
The men's K-2 1000 metres event was a pairs kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.
Liam Heath is a British sprint canoeist. He is the most successful British canoeist at the Olympics with a total of four medals; he won a gold medal in the individual 200m kayak sprint event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the 2020 Olympics, as well as a silver in the men's double with Jon Schofield in 2016. and a bronze at the 2012 London Olympics in the K-2 200 with Schofield.
Dame Lisa Marie Carrington is a flatwater canoeist and New Zealand's most successful Olympian, having won a total of five gold medals and one bronze medal. She won three consecutive gold medals in the Women's K‑1 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as gold in the same event at the 2011 Canoe Sprint World Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she also won a gold medal in the K‑2 500 metres, with crewmate Caitlin Regal, and as an individual in the K‑1 500 metres.
Teneale Hatton is a New Zealand flatwater canoer.
Marharyta Ryhorauna Makhneva, née Tsishkevich, Belarusian: Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч); Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva (Ciškievič); born 13 February 1992) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and the bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's K-4 500 metres.
Dayexi Gandarela Sosa is a Cuban sprint canoeist. She edged out the Argentine pair by two thirds of a second (0.67) for the gold medal in the women's K-2 500 metres at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Yulitza Meneses Prieto is a Cuban sprint canoeist.
Irina Lauric is a Romanian sprint canoeist. Lauric is a member of the canoe and kayak team for ASC Olympia București, and is coached and trained by Iuan Sipos.
Iuliana Paleu is a Romanian sprint canoeist. Paleu is a member of the canoe and kayak team for CS Dinamo București, and is coached and trained by Iuan Sipos.
Hiroki Watanabe is a Japanese sprint canoeist born in Yamanashi prefecture. He won a bronze medal, along with his partner Keiji Mizumoto, in the men's kayak doubles at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
Yevgeniy Petrovich Alexeyev is a Kazakhstani sprint canoeist. He won a gold medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan men's kayak four, at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and silver at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He also captured a bronze medal, along with his partner Alexey Podoinikov in the men's kayak doubles at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.
Rubén Oscar Voisard Rézola is an Argentine sprint canoeist. He won the gold medal in the men's kayak doubles at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada and silver medal in the men's kayak doubles at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, earning him a spot on the Argentine team for the Olympics. Voisard is also a member of the canoe and kayak team for Argentina's Natural Reserve Boating Association, and is coached and trained by Damian Dossena.
Stephen Bird is a South African-born Australian sprint canoeist. He is a three-time national champion in the men's kayak doubles, and a member of the Canning River Canoe Club in Perth, Western Australia, under his personal coach Ramon Andersson.
Ionuţ Alexandru Mitrea is a Romanian sprint canoeist. Mitrea is a member of the canoe and kayak team for Dynamo Bucharest Sports Club, and is coached and trained by Serban Romica.
Bogdan Mada is a Romanian sprint canoeist. Mada is a member of the canoe and kayak team for Steaua Army Sports Club in Bucharest, and is coached and trained by Florin Scoica.
Laurens Pannecoucke is a Belgian sprint canoeist. Pannecoucke is a member of the canoe and kayak team for Bloso Hazewinkel Sports Club in Willebroek, and is coached and trained by Carlos Prendes.
Darryl Stewart Fitzgerald is a New Zealand sprint canoeist. Fitzgerald is a member of Poverty Bay Kayak Club, and is coached and trained by four-time Olympic kayaking champion Ian Ferguson.
Jordan Wood is an Australian canoeist. He competed in the men's K-2 200 metres and men's K-4 1000 metres events at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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