The men's kayak event at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 September 2023 at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in London, with the qualification heats on 21 September 2023.

Competition format The event uses a three-round format with qualification heats, semifinal and final. Paddlers complete up to two runs in the heats, with the top ranked athletes starting last. In the first heat, the 30 fastest paddlers qualify automatically for the semifinal, whilst the rest compete in the second heat for additional 10 qualification spots. The final rank of non-qualifying athletes is determined by their second run score. Paddlers 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 start list for the final is once again in reverse order of the semifinal results. The athlete with the best time in the single-run final is awarded gold.

A penalty of 2 seconds is awarded for touching a gate and a 50-second penalty is awarded for missing a gate or negotiating it in the opposite direction.

The heats setup had 23 gates including 6 upstream gates (3-11-12-15-19-23). The semifinal and final gate setup also had 23 gates with 6 upstream gates (3-11-12-15-19-23), but in a more difficult configuration, causing slower times.

Schedule

All times listed are UTC+1.

Date Time Round 21 September 2023 10:21 Heats Run 1 14:31 Heats Run 2 23 September 2023 11:07 Semifinal 14:12 Final

Results

British paddler Joseph Clarke was the last man to start after winning the semifinal and he managed to back up his semifinal run with another clean and fast run to win gold ahead of the Czech paddler Jiří Prskavec and Mathis Soudi from Morocco. For Clarke it was his first individual medal in the K1 event at the World Championships. Prskavec won his fifth medal in the discipline and third silver. Soudi made history by becoming the first African paddler to win any kind of medal at the Canoe Slalom World Championships.

There were 15 quota spots available for the 2024 Summer Olympics, one per country. The quota spots were secured by:

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

RankBibAthleteCountryHeatsSemifinalFinalRun 1Run 2TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank 6 Joseph Clarke 83.28 2 23 - 90.96 0 1 91.32 0 1 1 Jiří Prskavec 79.12 0 2 - 92.70 0 2 93.26 0 2 40 Mathis Soudi 80.87 0 10 - 95.15 0 5 93.91 0 3 4 7 Martin Dougoud 81.53 0 12 - 94.56 0 4 93.93 0 4 5 23 Timothy Anderson 79.84 0 5 - 95.52 0 6 94.50 0 5 6 4 Giovanni De Gennaro 79.96 0 7 - 94.26 0 3 94.74 0 6 7 92 Mateusz Polaczyk 134.04 52 79 81.71 0 4 95.74 0 8 95.04 0 7 8 26 Pau Echaniz 86.65 4 34 81.95 0 6 95.96 0 9 96.59 0 8 9 28 Jonny Dickson 133.68 54 78 82.91 2 10 95.99 0 10 98.28 0 9 10 3 Peter Kauzer 81.43 0 11 - 95.64 0 7 152.71 52 10 11 24 Quan Xin 83.63 2 25 - 96.30 0 11 did not advance 12 33 Isak Öhrström 83.23 0 22 - 96.51 0 12 13 18 Finn Butcher 82.67 0 18 - 96.79 0 13 14 13 Titouan Castryck 82.05 0 15 - 97.00 0 14 15 52 Yuuki Tanaka 81.79 0 13 - 97.05 4 15 16 42 Noel Hendrick 84.79 0 30 - 97.20 0 16 17 19 Jakub Krejčí 79.11 0 1 - 97.21 2 17 18 36 Adam Gonšenica 87.47 4 40 82.87 0 9 97.59 0 18 19 12 Jakub Grigar 80.36 0 8 - 97.72 2 19 20 5 Boris Neveu 83.44 2 24 - 97.76 0 20 21 25 David Llorente 82.56 0 17 - 97.80 4 21 22 10 Martin Srabotnik 136.67 52 84 81.84 0 5 97.83 2 22 23 15 Lucien Delfour 85.73 4 32 81.64 0 2 97.98 2 23 24 2 Vít Přindiš 81.88 2 14 - 98.22 6 24 25 32 Pedro Gonçalves 133.52 54 76 82.10 0 7 98.49 2 25 26 35 Christopher Bowers 80.37 0 9 - 98.70 4 26 27 44 Mathieu Desnos 79.27 0 3 - 99.15 2 27 28 20 Dariusz Popiela 79.89 0 6 - 99.41 4 28 29 9 Hannes Aigner 84.11 0 28 - 99.42 4 29 30 30 Martin Halčin 84.20 0 29 - 99.68 2 30 31 34 Michał Pasiut 82.78 0 20 - 100.09 0 31 32 14 Mario Leitner 82.12 0 16 - 100.47 2 32 33 29 Kazuya Adachi 87.00 4 37 81.68 0 3 105.07 0 33 34 38 Žiga Lin Hočevar 82.70 0 19 - 105.25 4 34 35 65 Trevor Boyd 83.22 0 21 - 106.90 6 35 36 39 Callum Gilbert 84.02 0 26 - 113.52 6 36 37 21 Stefan Hengst 79.51 0 4 - 140.61 50 37 38 43 Dimitri Marx 133.35 50 75 82.91 0 10 144.07 52 38 39 37 Xabier Ferrazzi 133.66 52 77 80.22 0 1 159.36 54 39 40 41 Benjamin Pope 87.29 2 38 82.63 0 8 199.10 100 40 41 45 Erik Holmer 84.04 0 27 - 203.18 100 41 42 16 Noah Hegge 135.36 50 82 83.02 0 12 did not advance 43 8 Felix Oschmautz 139.31 52 87 83.64 2 13 44 11 Miquel Travé 139.00 52 85 84.29 2 14 45 22 Benjamin Renia 135.58 54 83 85.22 2 15 46 47 Fredrik Wahlén 86.77 2 35 85.51 0 16 47 48 Lucas Rossi 94.18 8 62 85.58 0 17 48 31 Gabriel De Coster 184.16 102 95 85.66 4 18 49 46 Joshua Joseph 194.03 100 96 85.69 2 19 50 49 Maxime Aubertin 148.31 56 90 85.92 2 20 51 51 Tyler Westfall 90.15 2 50 86.97 0 21 52 54 Samuel Curtis 88.36 2 43 87.35 0 22 53 72 Matías Contreras 139.12 54 86 87.79 2 23 54 87 Zhu Haoran 139.68 54 88 87.96 4 24 55 90 Imangali Mambetov 92.65 2 61 88.20 0 25 56 55 Alex Baldoni 87.81 4 41 88.24 4 26 57 73 Andraz Echeverría Olguín 86.84 0 36 88.35 4 27 58 70 Djanibek Temirgaliev 88.00 2 42 88.90 4 28 59 57 Lorand Gjoshi 86.59 2 33 89.10 4 29 60 71 Mustafa Arda Acar 195.48 102 97 89.65 0 30 61 60 Ritvars Celmiņš 88.50 0 44 90.16 2 31 62 50 Yusuke Muto 135.34 50 81 90.90 0 32 63 64 Thibaud Lacour 90.45 0 52 90.99 0 33 64 74 Manuel Trípano 91.14 0 54 93.03 4 34 65 77 Alexis Pérez 97.08 4 65 93.65 0 35 66 63 Serhii Sovko 92.24 4 60 94.38 4 36 67 66 Frederico Alvarenga 89.40 0 48 94.87 0 37 68 78 Vilius Rasimavičius 94.87 2 63 94.95 2 38 69 94 Salim Ahmad Jemai 89.63 0 49 95.22 8 39 70 88 Andy Barat 102.24 2 68 95.69 0 40 71 76 Mārtiņš Plaudis 95.60 0 64 96.78 0 41 72 56 Alistair McCreery 91.84 2 58 99.55 4 42 73 79 Antonio Reinoso 98.07 2 66 103.20 4 43 74 80 Yusuf Emir Ertek 275.61 152 99 103.92 2 44 75 89 Ong Jun Yi 111.36 8 72 111.59 2 45 76 82 Vėjas Pranskūnas 128.75 0 74 113.08 4 46 77 85 Mantas Atmanavičius 111.36 12 72 114.72 8 47 78 81 Tarık Tuğcu 155.98 54 91 115.36 4 48 79 99 Marcos Gallegos 109.52 6 71 118.15 8 49 80 97 Tang Hung-Yuan 134.11 10 80 118.28 0 50 81 95 Samuel Muchiri DSQ 101 120.52 2 51 82 101 Iain Rennie 256.35 108 98 126.28 8 52 83 27 Gelindo Chiarello 91.61 6 55 132.70 52 53 84 84 Pradhyumna Singh Rathod 302.81 156 100 132.83 4 54 85 59 Roko Bengeri 84.88 0 31 135.35 52 55 86 61 Kaelin Friedenson 88.77 2 45 136.54 50 56 87 68 Maël Rivard 98.27 4 67 136.62 50 57 88 17 Marcello Beda 90.87 2 53 136.87 50 58 89 69 Thomas Ukalovic 146.34 60 89 138.17 52 59 90 58 Ren Korpes 91.97 2 59 138.36 50 60 91 62 Lucas Jacob 87.33 2 39 138.50 52 61 92 98 Sam Oud 91.76 0 56 138.59 50 62 93 53 Huang Liman 91.78 6 57 139.62 56 63 94 67 Moritz Kremslehner 88.82 0 46 141.12 52 64 95 93 Guilherme Mapelli 90.27 2 51 142.23 56 65 96 96 Fernando Reinoso 161.74 8 93 145.10 14 66 97 75 João Cunha 88.98 0 47 147.54 54 67 98 83 Edgars Gravitis 106.99 0 70 148.62 54 68 99 86 Donovan Wewege 104.40 2 69 154.95 54 69 100 91 Solomon Maragh 173.10 56 94 219.11 108 70 101 100 Scott Humphry 159.57 14 92 310.55 160 71

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