ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canoe · International Canoe Federation (ICF)
2026LatestPoznań 2026, 26 to 30 August: 24 events
- Next
- Szeged 2027
- Most golds
- Hungary, 234; then Germany, 140
- Most golds (men's kayak)
- Ronald Rauhe (Germany), 16
- India
- No medal
- Cycle
- Most years; none in 2000, 2004 or 2008. Unnumbered championships were held in 2012 (11 events) and 2016 (12), and 2020 is listed with no events; the lists have no rows for these. In 2024 there were two: an unnumbered one at Szeged (12 events, not in the lists) and the 49th at Samarkand (20)
India at the World Championships
India has no medal in the senior events in the file. India's paddlers raced in 29 non-para events at Duisburg 2023 and 19 at Milan 2025. Its best places, all in canoe:
- Duisburg 2023: 8th in the men's C-4 500 m final (Arjun Singh, Niraj Verma, Ribason Singh Ningthoujam, Gyaneshwor Singh Philem) and 9th in the men's C-2 1000 m A final (Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam); Kaveri Dimar 11th in the women's C-1 5000 m.
- Milan 2025: 9th in the women's C-4 500 m final (Megha Pradeep, Neha Devi Leichonbam, Kaveri, Shivani Verma); the women's C-2 500 m pair (Megha Pradeep and Neha Devi Leichonbam) won places in the B final, 7th there.
In kayak no Indian boat reached an A final in either year. India's paracanoe medals (Pooja Ojha's three VL1 silvers) are on the paracanoe page.
More about this tournament
Poznań 2026 champions
| Boat | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| C-1 200 m | Oleksii Koliadych (Poland) | Liudmyla Luzan (Ukraine) |
| C-1 500 m | Isaquias Queiroz (Brazil) | Sophia Jensen (Canada) |
| C-1 1000 m | Dániel Fejes (Hungary) and Martin Fuksa (Czech Republic), shared | |
| C-1 5000 m | Balázs Adolf (Hungary) | Carlotta Loske (Germany) |
| C-2 200 m | AIN-B | |
| C-2 500 m | AIN-A | Germany |
| C-4 500 m | Hungary | China |
| K-1 200 m | Andrea Di Liberto (Italy) | Frederikke Mørcke (Denmark) |
| K-1 500 m | Thomas Green (Australia) | Pauline Jagsch (Germany) |
| K-1 1000 m | Fernando Pimenta (Portugal) | Zsóka Csikós (Hungary) |
| K-1 5000 m | Fernando Pimenta (Portugal) | Melina Andersson (Sweden) |
| K-2 500 m | Germany | Australia |
| K-4 500 m | Germany | China |
Medal table (1938 to 2026, top 10)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungary | 234 | 183 | 160 | 577 |
| 2 | Germany | 140 | 111 | 89 | 340 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 102 | 80 | 66 | 248 |
| 4 | East Germany | 73 | 36 | 36 | 145 |
| 5 | Romania | 53 | 77 | 68 | 198 |
| 6 | Russia | 52 | 48 | 47 | 147 |
| 7 | Poland | 39 | 93 | 81 | 213 |
| 8 | Canada | 38 | 29 | 29 | 96 |
| 9 | Belarus | 37 | 32 | 34 | 103 |
| 10 | Sweden | 35 | 41 | 49 | 125 |
Crew medals count once for the nation. Germany here is Germany in 1938 and from 1991; West Germany (1950 to 1990) and East Germany are counted on their own.