2021 World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships

The 2021 ICF World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 6 to 11 July 2021, under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation (ICF).^[1] It was the 22nd edition of the competition for Juniors (U18) and the 9th edition for the Under 23 category.

Medal summary

Men

Canoe

Junior

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[2]	Martino Barzon  Italy	91.92	Martin Kratochvíl  Czech Republic	92.19	Adam Král  Czech Republic	93.78
C1 team[3]	Czech Republic Adam Král Martin Kratochvíl Matyáš Říha	96.80	France Mewen Debliquy Quentin Maillefer Tanguy Adisson	105.33	Germany Benjamin Kies Konrad Ginzel Franz Gosse	106.21

U23

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[4]	Nicolas Gestin  France	86.27	Jules Bernardet  France	87.39	Václav Chaloupka  Czech Republic	88.83
C1 team[5]	Slovenia Nejc Polenčič Juš Javornik Urh Turnšek	93.80	Czech Republic Václav Chaloupka Vojtěch Heger Matyáš Lhota	94.64	France Nicolas Gestin Jules Bernardet Alexis Bobon	94.72

Kayak

Junior

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[6]	Titouan Castryck  France	85.01	Martin Rudorfer  Czech Republic	85.82	Jan Ločnikar  Slovenia	88.85
K1 team[7]	Slovenia Jan Ločnikar Urban Gajšek Jakob Šavli	95.97	Czech Republic Martin Rudorfer Matyáš Novák Jakub Mrázek	96.95	France Oskar Hillion Titouan Castryck Edouard Chenal	97.69
Extreme Canoe Slalom[8]	Kaelin Friedenson  United States		Martin Rudorfer  Czech Republic		George Snook  New Zealand

U23

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[9]	Jakub Krejčí  Czech Republic	81.89	Jonny Dickson  Great Britain	84.25	Christopher Bowers  Great Britain	84.55
K1 team[10]	Czech Republic Jakub Krejčí Jan Bárta Tomáš Zima	88.09	France Anatole Delassus Malo Quéméneur Simon Hene	92.41	Germany Noah Hegge Tim Bremer Thomas Strauss	92.57
Extreme Canoe Slalom[11]	Dimitri Marx  Switzerland		Jan Rohrer  Switzerland		Jakub Brzeziński  Poland

Women

Canoe

Junior

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[12]	Klára Kneblová  Czech Republic	101.59	Tereza Kneblová  Czech Republic	102.18	Evy Leibfarth  United States	107.10
C1 team[13]	Czech Republic Tereza Kneblová Klára Kneblová Lucie Doležalová	110.61	Germany Paulina Pirro Lucie Krech Zola Lewandowski	129.06	Slovakia Zuzana Paňková Ivana Chlebová Ema Diešková	138.76

U23

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[14]	Bethan Forrow  Great Britain	100.62	Emanuela Luknárová  Slovakia	101.43	Elena Apel  Germany	101.60
C1 team[15]	Czech Republic Martina Satková Gabriela Satková Eva Říhová	112.33	France Angèle Hug Doriane Delassus Fanchon Janssen	114.23	Slovakia Simona Glejteková Soňa Stanovská Emanuela Luknárová	118.78

Kayak

Junior

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[16]	Evy Leibfarth  United States	93.52	Emma Vuitton  France	98.23	Zuzana Paňková  Slovakia	98.97
K1 team[17]	Germany Hannah Süss Paulina Pirro Lucie Krech	108.08	Czech Republic Klára Kneblová Tereza Kneblová Amélie Červenková	116.05	Slovenia Helena Domajnko Sara Belingar Ula Skok	119.19
Extreme Canoe Slalom[18]	Jessica Duc  Switzerland		Marina Novysh  Russia		Tereza Kneblová  Czech Republic

U23

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[19]	Coline Charel  France	99.10	Romane Prigent  France	99.24	Ria Sribar  United States	99.42
K1 team[20]	France Angèle Hug Romane Prigent Coline Charel	101.09	Slovakia Soňa Stanovská Michaela Haššová Kristína Ďurecová	104.24	Germany Elena Apel Franziska Hanke Nele Gosse	106.39
Extreme Canoe Slalom[21]	Nikita Setchell  Great Britain		Martina Satková  Czech Republic		Antonie Galušková  Czech Republic

Mixed

Canoe

Junior

Only three boats from two countries entered the mixed C2 junior event, which meant that no medals were awarded. A minimum of 6 countries is required for an event to count as a world championship.^[22]

Event	First		Second		Third
C2[23] (non-medal event)	Marina Novysh Dmitrii Shestakov  Russia	110.61	Wojciech Fabijański Alicja Bulera  Poland	118.16	Valentina Vybornova Sergei Smirnov  Russia	123.28

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Slovenia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Czech Republic (CZE)	6	8	4	18
2	France (FRA)	4	6	2	12
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
4	Switzerland (SUI)	2	1	0	3
5	Slovenia (SLO)*	2	0	2	4
	United States (USA)	2	0	2	4
7	Germany (GER)	1	1	4	6
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
9	Slovakia (SVK)	0	2	3	5
10	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
11	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	20	60