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A sprint canoe is a canoe used in International Canoe Federation canoe sprint. It is an open boat propelled by one, two or four paddlers from a kneeling position, using single-bladed paddles. [ 1 ] The difficulty of balance can depend on how wide or narrow the canoe is, although regularly the less contact a canoe has with the water the faster ...
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today but is often used as a hypernym for both canoe marathon and canoe sprint.
Listed below are the canoe sprint world best times in Sprint canoe and Sprint kayak events. The ICF only acknowledge world best times set in finals of Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, Continental Championships and "other canoe sprint events with acceptable high technical level".
Canoe sprint competitions are broken up into canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in kayaks (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).
The 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held from 23 to 25 August 2024 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since this edition was held in a year coinciding with the Olympics , only non-olympic events were held.
The 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held from 23 to 27 August 2023 in Duisburg, Germany. They served as the main global qualification event for the 2024 Summer Olympics . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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 ] The championships served as the primary qualification regatta for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
This is a list of medallists from the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in men's Canadian. C-1 200 m. Debuted: 1994. Games Gold Silver Bronze 1994 Mexico City