2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the 45th edition of the World Championships, were held in Szeged, Hungary from 21 to 25 August 2019.^[1]

2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Olympic Centre of Szeged
Location	Szeged, Hungary
Dates	21–25 August
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The championships served as the primary qualification regatta for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Explanation of events

Canoe sprint competitions were contested in either a Canadian canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200, 500, 1000 or 5000 metres. When a competition is listed as a K-2 500m event, for example, it means two people were in a kayak competing over a distance of 500 metres.^[2]

Paracanoe competitions were contested in either a va'a (V), an outrigger canoe (which includes a second pontoon) with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (as above). All international competitions were held over 200 metres in single-man boats, with three event classes in both types of vessel for men and women depending on the level of an athlete's impairment. The lower the classification number, the more severe the impairment is – for example, VL1 is a va'a competition for those with particularly severe impairments.^[3]

Canoe sprint

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Belarus	6	4	4	14
2	Germany	6	4	1	11
3	Hungary*	5	4	3	12
4	China	4	0	1	5
5	Russia	2	3	1	6
6	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
7	Spain	1	3	3	7
8	Brazil	1	0	1	2
	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
10	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
12	Poland	0	6	1	7
13	Cuba	0	1	1	2
	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
15	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
19	France	0	0	2	2
	Portugal	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Uzbekistan	0	0	2	2
23	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		30	30	31	91

  Non-Olympic classes

Men

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C–1 200 m[4] details	Henrikas Žustautas  Lithuania	39.36	Artsem Kozyr  Belarus	40.08	Zaza Nadiradze  Georgia	40.24
C–1 500 m[5] details	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	1:53.59	Angel Kodinov  Bulgaria	1:54.49	Oleg Tarnovschi  Moldova	1:54.94
C–1 1000 m[6] details	Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil	3:59.23	Tomasz Kaczor  Poland	4:00.92	Adrien Bart  France	4:01.55
C–1 5000 m[7] details	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	22:15.86	Balázs Adolf  Hungary	22:19.15	Fernando Jorge  Cuba	22:30.46
C–2 200 m[8] details	Spain Alberto Pedrero Pablo Graña	36.06	Poland Michał Łubniewski Arsen Śliwiński	36.18	Uzbekistan Artur Guliev Elyorjon Mamadaliev	36.42
C–2 500 m[9] details	China Li Qiang Xing Song	1:37.33	Hungary Jonatán Hajdu Ádám Fekete	1:38.41	Spain Sete Benavides Antoni Segura	1:38.97
C–2 1000 m[10] details	China Liu Hao Wang Hao	3:40.55	Cuba Serguey Torres Fernando Jorge	3:41.46	Brazil Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz	3:44.34
C–4 500 m[11] details	Russia Ivan Shtyl Pavel Petrov Viktor Melantyev Mikhail Pavlov	1:34.69	Germany Jan Vandrey Conrad-Robin Scheibner Tim Hecker Moritz Adam	1:35.83	Belarus Andrei Bahdanovich Evgeniy Tengel Maksim Krysko Vitali Asetski	1:37.14

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K–1 200 m[12] details	Liam Heath  Great Britain	34.86	Strahinja Stefanović  Serbia	35.04	Carlos Garrote  Spain	35.12
K–1 500 m[13] details	Tom Liebscher  Germany	1:35.04 WB	Mikita Borykau  Belarus	1:35.19	Maxim Spesivtsev  Russia	1:35.49
K–1 1000 m[14] details	Bálint Kopasz  Hungary	3:36.07	Josef Dostál  Czech Republic	3:37.31	Fernando Pimenta  Portugal	3:37.63
K–1 5000 m[15] details	Aleh Yurenia  Belarus	19:54.07	Max Hoff  Germany	19:57.56	Fernando Pimenta  Portugal	20:19.94
K–2 200 m[16] details	Russia Yury Postrigay Alexander Dyachenko	33.05	Poland Piotr Mazur Bartosz Grabowski	33.10	Hungary Márk Balaska Levente Apagyi	33.30
K–2 500 m[17] details	Belarus Stanislau Daineka Dzmitry Natynchyk	1:33.13	Spain Pelayo Roza Pedro Vázquez	1:33.48	Germany Marcus Gross Martin Hiller	1:34.50
K–2 1000 m[18] details	Germany Max Hoff Jacob Schopf	3:20.53	Spain Francisco Cubelos Íñigo Peña	3:21.79	France Cyrille Carré Étienne Hubert	3:22.96
K–4 500 m[19] details	Germany Tom Liebscher Ronald Rauhe Max Rendschmidt Max Lemke	1:19.26	Spain Saúl Craviotto Carlos Arévalo Rodrigo Germade Marcus Walz	1:19.77	Slovakia Erik Vlček Adam Botek Csaba Zalka Samuel Baláž	1:20.96
K–4 1000 m[20] details	Germany Lukas Reuschenbach Felix Frank Jakob Thordsen Tobias-Pascal Schultz	2:48.79	Russia Vasily Pogreban Aleksei Vostrikov Oleg Siniavin Igor Kalashnikov	2:49.78	Slovakia Gábor Jakubík Juraj Tarr Denis Myšák Ákos Gacsal	2:50.44

Women

  Non-Olympic classes

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C–1 200 m[21] details	Nevin Harrison  United States	49.30	Olesia Romasenko  Russia	49.74	Alena Nazdrova  Belarus	49.99
C–1 500 m[22] details	Alena Nazdrova  Belarus	2:00.73 WB	Ksenia Kurach  Russia	2:01.64	Anastasiia Chetverikova  Ukraine	2:03.83
C–1 5000 m[23] details	Volha Klimava  Belarus	25:34.67	María Mailliard  Chile	25:56.41	Zhang Yajue  China	26:14.90
C–2 200 m[24] details	China Lin Wenjun Zhang Luqi	44.69	Hungary Kincső Takács Virág Balla	45.16	Uzbekistan Dilnoza Rakhmatova Nilufar Zokirova	46.60
C–2 500 m[25] details	China Sun Mengya Xu Shixiao	2:02.81	Hungary Kincső Takács Virág Balla	2:04.49	Belarus Volha Klimava Nadzeya Makarchanka	2:07.74

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K–1 200 m[26] details	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	39.39	Marta Walczykiewicz  Poland	41.33	Emma Jørgensen  Denmark	41.34
					Teresa Portela  Spain
K–1 500 m[27] details	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	1:55.76	Volha Khudzenka  Belarus	1:57.39	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	1:58.01
K–1 1000 m[28] details	Tamara Csipes  Hungary	4:07.90	Justyna Iskrzycka  Poland	4:09.26	Lizzie Broughton  Great Britain	4:10.44
K–1 5000 m[29] details	Dóra Bodonyi  Hungary	22:03.23	Tabea Medert  Germany	22:03.85	Maryna Litvinchuk  Belarus	22:04.08
K–2 200 m[30] details	Belarus Maryna Litvinchuk Volha Khudzenka	36.21	Slovenia Špela Ponomarenko Janić Anja Osterman	36.72	Hungary Blanka Kiss Anna Lucz	36.97
K–2 500 m[31] details	Belarus Maryna Litvinchuk Volha Khudzenka	1:42.55	Poland Karolina Naja Anna Puławska	1:43.34	Slovenia Špela Ponomarenko Janić Anja Osterman	1:44.21
K–2 1000 m[32] details	Hungary Erika Medveczky Réka Hagymási	3:34.23	Germany Tabea Medert Sarah Brüßler	3:35.59	Mexico Karina Alanís Maricela Montemayor	3:40.91
K–4 500 m[33] details	Hungary Dóra Bodonyi Erika Medveczky Tamara Csipes Alida Dóra Gazsó	1:32.91	Belarus Maryna Litvinchuk Volha Khudzenka Nadzeya Liapeshka Marharyta Makhneva	1:33.69	Poland Karolina Naja Anna Puławska Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk Helena Wiśniewska	1:34.77

Paracanoe

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	3	2	1	6
2	Ukraine	3	0	1	4
3	Australia	2	1	1	4
4	Brazil	1	1	2	4
5	Hungary*	1	0	0	1
	Japan	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
8	Germany	0	3	0	3
9	Russia	0	2	1	3
10	Italy	0	2	0	2
11	Portugal	0	1	0	1
12	Chile	0	0	2	2
13	Iran	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		12	12	11	35

Medal events

  Non-Paralympic classes

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's KL1[34] details	Péter Pál Kiss  Hungary	45.42	Esteban Farias  Italy	46.17	Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva  Brazil	46.49
Men's KL2[35] details	Curtis McGrath  Australia	42.35	Federico Mancarella  Italy	42.80	Scott Martlew  New Zealand	43.51
Men's KL3[36] details	Serhii Yemelianov  Ukraine	40.03	Leonid Krylov  Russia	40.56	Caio Riberio de Carvalho  Brazil	40.70
Men's VL1[37] details	Mykola Fedorenko  Ukraine	1:05.18	Peter Happ  Germany	1:07.81	Robinson Méndez  Chile	1:14.27
Men's VL2[38] details	Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva  Brazil	51.68	Norberto Mourao  Portugal	52.82	Jakub Tokarz  Poland	53.21
Men's VL3[39] details	Curtis McGrath  Australia	47.42	Caio Riberio de Carvalho  Brazil	47.52	Stuart Wood  Great Britain	48.42
Women's KL1[40] details	Maryna Mazhula  Ukraine	55.99	Edina Müller  Germany	56.97	Katherinne Wollermann  Chile	58.03
Women's KL2[41] details	Charlotte Henshaw  Great Britain	47.62	Emma Wiggs  Great Britain	49.03	Susan Seipel  Australia	51.12
Women's KL3[42] details	Shakhnoza Mirzaeva  Uzbekistan	47.29	Laura Sugar  Great Britain	47.32	Shahla Behrouzirad  Iran	48.96
Women's VL1[43] details	Monika Seryu  Japan	1:14.56	Esther Bode  Germany	1:35.66	not awarded as there were only 2 entries
Women's VL2[44] details	Emma Wiggs  Great Britain	56.10	Susan Seipel  Australia	57.74	Maria Nikiforova  Russia	59.24
Women's VL3[45] details	Charlotte Henshaw  Great Britain	56.82	Larisa Volik  Russia	57.84	Nataliia Lagutenko  Ukraine	59.07

Doping violation

On 19 August, the ICF announced that 11-time world champion Laurence Vincent-Lapointe was provisionally suspended from competition after testing positive for a banned substance.^[46] The substance in question was subsequently found to be Ligandrol, with Canoe Kayak Canada stating Ligandrol had been associated with recent tainted supplements and that preliminary information suggested Vincent-Lapointe's positive may have been the result of such.^[47]