2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Canadian events
C-1 200m	men	women
C-1 500m	men	women
C-1 1000m	men
C-1 5000m	men	women
C-2 200m	men	women
C-2 500m	men	women
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 500m	men
Kayak events
K-1 200m	men	women
K-1 500m	men	women
K-1 1000m	men	women
K-1 5000m	men	women
K-2 200m	men	women
K-2 500m	men	women
K-2 1000m	men	women
K-4 500m	men	women
K-4 1000m	men
Paracanoe events
KL1	men	women
KL2	men	women
KL3	men	women
VL1	men	women
VL2	men	women
VL3	men	women

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.

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]

  *   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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C–1 200 m[4]	Henrikas Žustautas  Lithuania	39.36	Artsem Kozyr  Belarus	40.08	Zaza Nadiradze  Georgia	40.24
C–1 500 m[5]	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	1:53.59	Angel Kodinov  Bulgaria	1:54.49	Oleg Tarnovschi  Moldova	1:54.94
C–1 1000 m[6]	Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil	3:59.23	Tomasz Kaczor  Poland	4:00.92	Adrien Bart  France	4:01.55
C–1 5000 m[7]	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	22:15.86	Balázs Adolf  Hungary	22:19.15	Fernando Jorge  Cuba	22:30.46
C–2 200 m[8]	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]	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]	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]	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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K–1 200 m[12]	Liam Heath  Great Britain	34.86	Strahinja Stefanović  Serbia	35.04	Carlos Garrote  Spain	35.12
K–1 500 m[13]	Tom Liebscher  Germany	1:35.04 WB	Mikita Borykau  Belarus	1:35.19	Maxim Spesivtsev  Russia	1:35.49
K–1 1000 m[14]	Bálint Kopasz  Hungary	3:36.07	Josef Dostál  Czech Republic	3:37.31	Fernando Pimenta  Portugal	3:37.63
K–1 5000 m[15]	Aleh Yurenia  Belarus	19:54.07	Max Hoff  Germany	19:57.56	Fernando Pimenta  Portugal	20:19.94
K–2 200 m[16]	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]	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]	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]	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]	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

  Non-Olympic classes

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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K–1 200 m[26]	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	39.39	Marta Walczykiewicz  Poland	41.33	Emma Jørgensen  Denmark	41.34
					Teresa Portela  Spain
K–1 500 m[27]	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	1:55.76	Volha Khudzenka  Belarus	1:57.39	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	1:58.01
K–1 1000 m[28]	Tamara Csipes  Hungary	4:07.90	Justyna Iskrzycka  Poland	4:09.26	Lizzie Broughton  Great Britain	4:10.44
K–1 5000 m[29]	Dóra Bodonyi  Hungary	22:03.23	Tabea Medert  Germany	22:03.85	Maryna Litvinchuk  Belarus	22:04.08
K–2 200 m[30]	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]	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]	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]	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

  *   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

  Non-Paralympic classes

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

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]

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