2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

The 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were the 40th edition of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. The event took place from 24 to 29 September 2019 in La Seu d'Urgell, Catalonia, Spain under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF).^[1] The events took place at the Segre Olympic Park which also hosted the canoe slalom events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. La Seu d'Urgell hosted the championships for the third time after previously hosting the event in 1999 and 2009.

2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Venue	Segre Olympic Park
Location	La Seu d'Urgell, Catalonia Spain
Dates	24–29 September
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As is traditional in a pre-Olympic year, the Championships also doubled as the primary qualification event for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The top placed boats (subject to a limit of one per nation) earned their NOCs a qualification quota. 18 qualification spots were available in the K1 events, and eleven in the C1.^[2]

Seu also hosted the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships as part of the same event.

Schedule

Nine medal events were contested.^[3]

All times listed are UTC+2.

Date	Starting Time	Events
25 September	09:00	C1M, K1W, K1M, C1W teams
26 September	09:00	C1M, K1W heats – 1st run
	12:30	C1M, K1W heats – 2nd run
27 September	09:00	C1W, K1M heats – 1st run
	12:25	C1W, K1M heats – 2nd run
28 September	09:03	C1M, K1W semifinals
	12:03	C1M, K1W finals
29 September	08:33	C1W, K1M semifinals
	12:03	C1W, K1M finals
	15:00	C2Mx semifinal
	16:10	C2Mx final

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Spain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	2	2	6
2	Spain (ESP)*	1	4	1	6
3	Australia (AUS)	1	2	0	3
4	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
5	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	0	1
9	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
10	Russia (RUS)	0	0	2	2
11	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		9	9	9	27

Men

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[4]	Cédric Joly  France	90.84	Ander Elosegi  Spain	91.35	Luka Božič  Slovenia	91.92
C1 team[5]	Slovakia Alexander Slafkovský Michal Martikán Matej Beňuš	94.38	Spain Ander Elosegi Miquel Travé Luis Fernández	97.43	Russia Kirill Setkin Dmitrii Khramtsov Pavel Kotov	98.62

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[6]	Jiří Prskavec  Czech Republic	84.26	David Llorente  Spain	85.96	Joan Crespo  Spain	87.22
K1 team[7]	Spain David Llorente Samuel Hernanz Joan Crespo	89.87	Czech Republic Jiří Prskavec Vít Přindiš Vavřinec Hradilek	90.86	Poland Dariusz Popiela Michał Pasiut Krzysztof Majerczak	93.69

Women

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[8]	Andrea Herzog  Germany	100.52	Jessica Fox  Australia	101.46	Nadine Weratschnig  Austria	106.45
C1 team[9]	Australia Jessica Fox Noemie Fox Rosalyn Lawrence	117.97	Spain Núria Vilarrubla Klara Olazabal Ainhoa Lameiro	121.72	Czech Republic Tereza Fišerová Eva Říhová Kateřina Havlíčková	124.48

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[10]	Eva Terčelj  Slovenia	94.27	Jessica Fox  Australia	94.69	Luuka Jones  New Zealand	94.77
K1 team[11]	Great Britain Mallory Franklin Fiona Pennie Kimberley Woods	103.96	Czech Republic Kateřina Kudějová Veronika Vojtová Amálie Hilgertová	104.16	Russia Ekaterina Perova Marta Kharitonova Alsu Minazova	104.19

Mixed

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C2[12]	Tereza Fišerová Jakub Jáně  Czech Republic	109.65	Aleksandra Stach Marcin Pochwała  Poland	113.36	Jan Mašek Veronika Vojtová  Czech Republic	114.57

Olympic qualification

The 2019 World Championships also served as a main qualification event in each of the individual boat classes. The following nations each qualified a boat in the stated event:

Qualified boats for Tokyo 2020 from the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Men's K-1 (18)	Men's C-1 (11)	Women's K-1 (18)	Women's C-1 (11)
Czech Republic  Great Britain  Portugal  ROC  Australia  Spain  Slovakia  France  Germany  Canada  Italy  Austria  Switzerland  Slovenia  United States  Brazil  Sweden  New Zealand	France  Poland  Slovenia  Slovakia  Switzerland  Ireland  Spain  Canada  Croatia  Czech Republic  Great Britain	Czech Republic  Slovakia  Austria  Ukraine  France  Great Britain  New Zealand  Poland  United States  Netherlands  Germany  Andorra  Brazil  Spain  Slovenia  Australia  Italy  ROC	Spain  Australia  Andorra  Germany  New Zealand  Czech Republic  Austria  Brazil  United States  Great Britain  Italy

Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Spain achieved qualification in all four classes, and thus joined host Japan in completing their qualification pathway for Canoe slalom at the 2020 Games. Further events providing opportunities to qualify for other nations will take place throughout 2020.