Ricarda Funk

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Ricarda Funk
2019 ICF Canoe slalom World Championships 171 - Ricarda Funk.jpg
Funk in 2019
Personal information
Born (1992-04-15) 15 April 1992 (age 33)
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
CountryGermany
Sport Canoe slalom
EventK1, Kayak cross
ClubKSV Bad Kreuznach
Achievements and titles
Highest world rankingNo. 1 (2017)
Medal record

Ricarda Funk (born 15 April 1992) is a German slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008, specializing in the K1 discipline and since 2021 also in kayak cross. [1]

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Funk won the gold medal in the K1 event at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This gold medal came after the disappointment of 2016, when she failed to qualify for the Rio games after losing to Melanie Pfeifer in the internal German qualification.

Funk won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships including 5 individual medals. She won her first individual world K1 title in 2021 in Bratislava and then retained the title in 2022 in Augsburg. She also won silver in 2015 and two bronzes back-to-back in 2017 and 2018. The remaining three medals came from the K1 team events as part of the German team. These include two golds in 2017 and 2022 and a silver in 2018. [2]

By winning the 2021 World K1 title as well as the Olympic K1 gold at the delayed Tokyo games, Funk became the first canoe slalom athlete to win both an Olympic and a World title in the same discipline in the same year. A feat that is unlikely to be repeated since the World Championships typically don't take place in Olympic years.

Funk won 10 medals (5 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes) at the European Championships, including a gold, a silver and a bronze at the 2023 European Games in Kraków. Seven of these medals are in individual events (4 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze in K1 and 1 silver in kayak cross). She was able to win the European K1 title in her first ever appearance at the 2014 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Vienna. [2]

Funk won the overall World Cup title in the K1 class in 2016, 2017 and 2024. [2] As of 2024 she has amassed 11 World Cup wins and 24 podiums. With the exception of one bronze in kayak cross, all of these podiums were in K1.

Funk was the year-end World No. 1 in 2017. [3]

Career statistics

Major championships results timeline

Event20142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Olympic Games K1Not heldNot held 1 Not held 11
Kayak crossNot held 14
World Championships K1 5 2 Not held 3 3 5 Not held 1 1 7 Not held
Kayak crossNot heldNot held 13 7 10 Not held
K1 team 5 14 Not held 1 2 7 Not held 1 8 Not held
European Championships K1 1 2 13 1 9 3 14 1 [a]
Kayak crossNot held 11 2 [a]
K1 team 4 8 7 1 2 6 5 3 [a]
  1. 1 2 3 2023 European Games

World Cup individual podiums

Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgTotal
K1125724
Kayak cross0011
Total125825
SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
2012 26 August 2012 Prague 3rdK1
2014 22 June 2014 Prague 1stK1
17 August 2014 Augsburg 1stK1
2015 28 June 2015 Kraków 3rdK1
2016 5 June 2016 Ivrea 1stK1
12 June 2016 La Seu d'Urgell 3rdK1
4 September 2016 Prague 1stK1
2017 18 June 2017 Prague 3rdK1
25 June 2017 Augsburg 1stK1
2 July 2017 Markkleeberg 1stK1
3 September 2017 Ivrea 1stK1
10 September 2017 La Seu d'Urgell 1stK1
2018 23 June 2018 Liptovský Mikuláš 3rdK1
8 September 2018 La Seu d'Urgell 1stK1
2019 15 June 2019 Lee Valley 2ndK1
22 June 2019 Bratislava 3rdK1
31 August 2019 Markkleeberg 1stK1
2021 19 June 2021 Markkleeberg 2ndK1
2022 3 September 2022 La Seu d'Urgell 1stK1
2023 9 June 2023 Prague 2ndK1
3 September 2023 La Seu d'Urgell 3rdKayak cross
2024 31 May 2024 Augsburg 2ndK1
7 June 2024 Prague 3rdK1
14 September 2024 Ivrea 2ndK1
2025 13 June 2025 Pau 1stK1

References

  1. "Official site bio" . Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ricarda FUNK (GER)". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  3. "ICF Canoe Slalom World Rankings". 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2021.