ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoeing organised by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non-Summer Olympic years since 1970. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing.

Explanation of events

Canoe sprint competitions are broken up into Canadian 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). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200 metres (660 ft), 500 metres (1,600 ft), 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), or 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) long. When a competition is listed as a C-2 500 m event as an example, it means two people are in a canoe competing at a 500 metres (1,600 ft) distance.^[1]

Host cities

• 1938: Vaxholm, Sweden (near Stockholm)
• 1948: London, Great Britain
• 1950: Copenhagen, Denmark (1)
• 1954: Mâcon, France
• 1958: Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1963: Jajce, Yugoslavia
• 1966: East Berlin, East Germany
• 1970: Copenhagen, Denmark (2)
• 1971: Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1)
• 1973: Tampere, Finland (1)
• 1974: Mexico City, Mexico (1)
• 1975: Belgrade, Yugoslavia (2)
• 1977: Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1978: Belgrade, Yugoslavia (3)
• 1979: Duisburg, West Germany (1)
• 1981: Nottingham, Great Britain
• 1982: Belgrade, Yugoslavia (4)
• 1983: Tampere, Finland (2)
• 1985: Mechelen, Belgium
• 1986: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
• 1987: Duisburg, West Germany (2)
• 1989: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• 1990: Poznań, Poland (1)
• 1991: Paris, France
• 1993: Copenhagen, Denmark (3)
• 1994: Mexico City, Mexico (2)
• 1995: Duisburg, Germany (3)
• 1997: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada (1)
• 1998: Szeged, Hungary (1)
• 1999: Idroscalo of Milan, Italy
• 2001: Poznań, Poland (2)
• 2002: Seville, Spain
• 2003: Gainesville, Georgia, United States
• 2005: Zagreb, Croatia
• 2006: Szeged, Hungary (2)
• 2007: Duisburg, Germany (4)
• 2009: Dartmouth, Canada (2)
• 2010: Poznań, Poland (3)
• 2011: Vichy, France

Men's Canadian

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's Canadian.

Men's kayak

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's kayak.

Women's kayak

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in women's kayak. Women's C-1 500 m event for 2010 is included in this section.

Medals table

As of the 2009 championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	166	127	112	405
2	Soviet Union (1950-91)	102	80	66	248
3	Germany (1938, 1991-present)	84	64	56	204
4	Romania	46	72	64	182
5	East Germany (1950-90)	73	36	36	145
6	Poland	26	60	53	139
7	Sweden	29	32	42	103
8	Russia (1993-present)	31	25	26	82
9	West Germany (1950-90)	14	19	24	57
10	Canada	16	20	18	54
11	Spain	11	15	23	49
12	Czechoslovakia (1938-91)	9	15	21	45
13	Italy	13	18	11	42
14	Bulgaria	8	10	24	42
15	France	8	14	19	41
16	Norway	13	14	13	40
17	Denmark	11	13	14	38
18	Australia	9	12	13	34
19	Czech Republic (Since 1993)	4	20	8	32
20	Belarus (Since 1993)	7	9	7	29
21	Ukraine (Since 1993)	4	7	17	28
22	Slovakia (Since 1993)	9	6	7	22
23	Yugoslavia (1938-2002)	8	8	5	21
24	Austria	3	6	12	21
25	United Kingdom	5	5	6	16
26	Lithuania (Since 1990)	4	3	8	15
27	Cuba	3	4	6	13
28	New Zealand	4	5	3	12
29	Finland	7	3	1	11
30	United States	5	3	2	10
31	China	0	4	5	9
32	Netherlands	0	4	4	8
33	Belgium	1	3	2	6
34	Uzbekistan (Since 1993)	1	2	3	6
35	Israel (Since 1948)	2	1	2	5
36	Serbia (Since 2006)	1	1	3	5
37	Argentina	0	2	2	4
38	Latvia (Since 1993)	2	0	1	3
39	Azerbaijan (Since 1991)	1	1	1	3
40	Mexico	1	0	1	2
41	Slovenia (since 1991)	0	1	1	2
42	Portugal	0	0	2	2
43	Serbia and Montenegro (2003-6)	1	0	0	1
44	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
45	South Africa	0	0	1	1
Total		748	746	747	2241

References

• 2008 ICF Congress on change from flatwater racing to canoe sprint. - accessed November 30, 2008.
• "The Board of Directors Wrap Up in Windsor". - International Canoe Federation (5 December 2009) - accessed 18 December 2009.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.

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