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2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships – Men's K1

The Men's K1 at the 2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 and 25 September 2021 at the Čunovo Water Sports Centre in Bratislava.[1] It was the 41st edition of the event, and 80 athletes from 36 nations competed.[2]

Men's K1
at the 2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
VenueČunovo Water Sports Centre
LocationBratislava, Slovakia
Dates23–25 September 2021
Competitors80 from 36 nations
Medalists
gold medal Boris Neveu   France
silver medal Marcello Beda   Italy
bronze medal Joan Crespo   Spain
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The event was won by Boris Neveu of France, winning his second title, after he led a French one-two-three in 2014. Italian underdog Marcello Beda won silver in his first international final, while Joan Crespo matched his result from 2019 with bronze.[3]

Background

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Czech Jiří Prskavec entered the event a clear favourite, as the reigning World Champion, Olympic Champion and World No. 1.[4][5] The host nation Slovakia fielded Olympic silver medallist Jakub Grigar.[6] Czech Vít Přindiš came into the event having won the last two World Cup rounds en route to the overall World Cup title, also winning the European Championships and the extreme overall World Cup title.[7] World No. 3 Joe Clarke also entered as a favourite, and with something to prove after not qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.[8] Andrej Málek was the last athlete to win a major ICF race on the Bratislava course, winning the second round of the 2019 World Cup, but he did not take part after retiring in 2020.[9]

Competition format

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The Men's K1 event in canoe slalom uses a three-round format with heats, a semifinal and final. Athletes complete up to two runs in the heats. In the first heat, the 30 fastest men qualify automatically for the semifinal, whilst the rest complete another run in the repêchage second heat for a further 10 qualification positions. The final rank of non-qualifying athletes is determined by their second run score. Athletes start in the reverse order of their heats position in the semifinal and complete a single run, with the top 10 advancing to the final. The athlete with the best time in the single-run final is awarded gold.[10]

Penalties of 2 or 50 seconds are incurred for infractions such as missing a gate, touching a gate, or not negotiating gates in numerical order. A team may request up to one review of a penalty per boat in the heats or semifinals phases, with no enquiries considered in the finals.[10]

Schedule

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All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Thursday, 23 September 2021
10:03 Heats Run 1
12:32 Heats Run 2
Saturday, 25 September 2021
10:08 Semifinal
12:40 Final

Results

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2014 World Champion Boris Neveu topped the first heat with a clean 82.14, a day after winning the Team world title, ahead of Czechs Vít Přindiš and Vavřinec Hradilek.[11] Sergei Maimistov won the second heat representing the Russian Canoe Federation, 1.15 off Neveu's first run time. Joe Clarke and Slovak Martin Halčin were the two highest ranked athletes to miss out on the semifinal. With both Germans Noah Hegge and Stefan Hengst setting equal times of 85.95 in the first heats run to finish 30th, 41 athletes progressed to the semifinal. 34 of the 41 who progressed to the semifinal did so with a penalty-free run.

The semifinal was won by home favourite Jakub Grigar, with a time of 85.16, ahead of Hegge and Marcello Beda, both making their first World Championship final. After the nation won 4 of the last 6 World Championship titles in this event, no Czech athletes qualified for the final, making this the first final without Czech participation since 2014. By finishing 9th in the semifinal, Brazilian Pedro Gonçalves became the first South American to progress to the World Championships final in this event since Thomas Bersinger placed 4th in 2014. This also marked the first time since 1995 that all three German athletes made the final.

Neveu became the 2021 K1M World Champion with a clean run of 83.92, almost 4 seconds clear of silver medalist Beda, while Joan Crespo won bronze at a second consecutive World Championship. The standard in the final was such that 7 of the athletes would have won a medal, had they completed the course in the same time as their semifinal.[3]

Penalties are included in the time shown. The fastest time in each round is shown in bold.

Rank Bib Canoeist Nation Heats Semifinal[12] Final[13]
Run 1[14] Run 2[15]
Time Pen. Order Time Pen. Order Time Pen. Order Time Pen. Order
  6 Boris Neveu   France 82.14 0 1 - 87.12 2 6 83.92 0 1
  33 Marcello Beda   Italy 85.74 0 27 - 86.82 0 3 87.75 0 2
  10 Joan Crespo   Spain 85.33 0 21 - 87.05 0 4 87.90 2 3
4 7 Giovanni De Gennaro   Italy 83.05 0 4 - 87.91 2 8 90.22 4 4
5 23 Stefan Hengst   Germany 85.95 2 30 - 88.66 2 10 90.68 2 5
6 30 Noah Hegge   Germany 85.95 0 30 - 86.25 0 2 91.18 4 6
7 12 Jakub Grigar   Slovakia 84.24 0 14 - 85.16 0 1 92.39 2 7
8 2 Peter Kauzer   Slovenia 83.20 0 5 - 87.47 4 7 136.10 52 8
9 5 Hannes Aigner   Germany 84.75 0 18 - 87.09 0 5 139.72 52 9
10 28 Pedro Gonçalves   Brazil 87.62 0 39 85.97 2 7 88.15 0 9 141.22 54 10
11 1 Jiří Prskavec   Czech Republic 84.87 0 19 - 88.71 0 11 did not advance
12 9 Mathieu Biazizzo   France 86.57 2 34 86.67 0 9 88.81 2 12
13 22 Pavel Eigel   RCF 88.78 0 42 84.68 0 3 88.95 0 13
14 43 Adam Gonšenica   Slovakia 83.91 2 12 - 89.05 2 14
15 8 Lucien Delfour   Australia 85.38 2 22 - 89.07 2 15
16 21 Niko Testen   Slovenia 84.43 0 16 - 89.10 0 16
17 11 Dariusz Popiela   Poland 85.90 0 29 - 89.19 0 17
18 20 Lukas Werro    Switzerland 85.72 0 26 - 90.37 0 18
19 27 Benjamin Renia   France 83.23 0 6 - 91.19 4 19
20 37 Erik Holmer   Sweden 85.50 0 24 - 91.44 2 20
21 16 David Llorente   Spain 83.83 0 11 - 91.83 4 21
22 24 Isak Öhrström   Sweden 86.57 2 34 83.85 0 2 92.06 0 22
23 15 Bradley Forbes-Cryans   Great Britain 85.38 0 22 - 92.44 4 23
24 32 Mario Leitner   Austria 84.25 0 15 - 92.58 2 24
24 40 Mathieu Desnos   Brazil 141.44 50 73 85.38 0 6 92.58 6 24
26 17 Michal Smolen   United States 85.82 0 28 - 92.61 2 26
27 13 Felix Oschmautz   Austria 83.60 0 7 - 92.96 6 27
28 47 Sergei Maimistov   RCF 88.26 2 41 83.29 0 1 93.48 0 28
29 49 Gabriel De Coster   Belgium 84.73 2 17 - 93.78 2 29
30 39 Gelindo Chiarello    Switzerland 86.52 0 33 84.73 0 4 93.96 4 30
31 31 Finn Butcher   New Zealand 84.88 0 20 - 95.57 4 31
32 48 Nikita Gubenko   RCF 86.44 2 32 86.32 0 8 95.80 4 32
33 42 Pau Echaniz   Spain 83.78 0 10 - 98.27 8 33
34 36 Christian De Dionigi   Italy 87.03 2 37 84.82 0 5 99.52 6 34
35 14 Martin Dougoud    Switzerland 83.71 0 9 - 136.54 52 35
36 4 Vít Přindiš   Czech Republic 82.51 0 2 - 136.74 50 36
37 25 Christopher Bowers   Great Britain 84.19 0 13 - 138.21 50 37
38 19 Vavřinec Hradilek   Czech Republic 82.85 0 3 - 139.35 52 38
39 26 Martin Srabotnik   Slovenia 85.55 0 25 - 139.37 52 39
40 41 Rafał Polaczyk   Poland 92.15 2 51 87.23 0 10 142.68 54 40
41 29 Callum Gilbert   New Zealand 83.60 0 7 - 154.51 56 41
42 34 Krzysztof Majerczak   Poland 141.86 50 74 87.74 0 11 did not advance
43 18 Martin Halčin   Slovakia 90.64 0 46 87.97 2 12
44 52 Alistair McCreery   Ireland 91.40 0 50 88.21 0 13
45 59 Jordan Sherman   United States 90.78 0 47 88.48 0 14
46 44 Fredrik Wahlén   Sweden 89.18 0 45 88.82 0 15
47 3 Joe Clarke   Great Britain 86.71 2 36 90.11 0 16
48 70 Djanibek Temirgaliev   Uzbekistan 91.04 0 48 90.29 0 17
49 35 Kazuya Adachi   Japan 87.22 2 38 91.61 0 18
50 58 Kaelin Friedenson   United States 96.17 6 53 92.16 0 19
51 53 Trevor Boyd   Canada 99.98 6 60 92.39 0 20
52 45 Guilherme Rodrigues   Brazil 89.13 0 44 93.11 2 21
53 50 Martin Stanovsky   Kazakhstan 96.94 2 55 95.93 2 22
54 51 Yusuke Muto   Japan 87.73 0 40 96.25 6 23
55 60 Angel Petrushev   North Macedonia 97.05 2 56 96.47 2 24
56 63 Milos Jevtic   Serbia 103.72 2 63 96.48 2 25
57 62 Moritz Kremslehner   Austria 94.58 2 52 96.84 0 26
58 46 Zack Mutton   New Zealand 88.82 0 43 97.33 2 27
59 71 Barkamol Mirzakhamdamov   Uzbekistan 96.88 2 54 99.73 2 28
60 55 Mael Rivard   Canada 103.99 2 64 101.33 0 29
61 77 Niek Hendriks   Netherlands 99.02 4 58 102.20 4 30
62 76 Donovan Wewege   South Africa 130.84 2 71 102.66 2 31
63 66 Ognjen Dimitrijevic   Serbia 165.87 56 78 102.71 0 32
64 78 Martins Plaudis   Latvia 114.96 4 66 103.99 0 33
65 64 Nour Ait Kaddour   Morocco 99.91 2 59 105.99 6 34
66 67 Marko Dordevic   Serbia 98.59 2 57 110.25 0 35
67 61 Gustas Malakauskas   Lithuania 103.12 4 61 110.57 0 36
68 56 Jean-Benoit Lemay   Canada 148.48 52 75 110.99 8 37
69 75 Vejas Pranskunas   Lithuania 121.38 6 69 115.14 6 38
70 54 Andraz Echeverria Olguin   Chile 103.70 6 62 124.87 2 39
71 69 Ricardo Fentanes   Mexico 132.83 6 72 129.01 4 40
72 79 Patrick Kozma   Romania 358.59 204 79 129.05 4 41
73 38 Igor Tsviet   Ukraine 91.21 2 49 135.47 50 42
74 74 Alexandr Voroshilov   Uzbekistan 104.80 0 65 156.68 52 43
75 72 Samuel Muturi   Kenya 118.74 4 67 162.87 2 44
76 57 Jun Yi Ong   Singapore 120.84 8 68 168.30 54 45
77 80 Matteo-Alexander Olar   Romania 122.56 8 70 170.97 4 46
78 68 Ignacio Bakovic   Chile 158.86 52 77 205.64 100 47
79 65 Vilius Rasimavicius   Lithuania 155.76 56 76 211.65 106 48
80 73 Levis Peter Karanja   Kenya 611.85 514 80 542.62 458 49

References

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