The men's KL2 competition at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań took place at Lake Malta.Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Bulletin 1
Schedule The schedule is as follows:Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Schedule Date Round Thursday 27 August 2026 Heats Saturday 29 August 2026 Semifinals Sunday 30 August 2026 Final B Final A
Record
The best performance previously in this discipline was:
World BestTimeAthleteNationVenue 41.13 Curtis McGrath Tokyo
Heats
Four heats were held. The results of those heats was as follows: Men's KL2 200 m - Heats - Results
Qualification rule : First six in each heat (SF) plus three next fastest (qBT) qualify for semi-finals; remainder are eliminated.
Heat 1 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 5 David Phillipson 45.17 2 3 Curtis McGrath 45.26 +0.09 3 1 Markus Mendy Swoboda 46.25 +1.08 4 6 Flavio Reitz 46.30 +1.13 5 4 Tibor Kiss 47.29 +2.12 6 8 Jose Javier Pineiro 47.93 +2.76 7 2 Yasuhide Kobayashi 1:14.89 +29.72 8 7 Mircea Ioan Campeanu 1:14.92 +29.75
Heat 2 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 2 Fernando Rufino 46.47 2 5 Christian Volpi 46.63 +0.16 3 4 Oybek Yuldashev 47.33 +0.86 4 6 Emilio Ariel Atamanuk 48.55 +2.08 5 1 Yuguo Duan 55.36 +8.89 6 3 Jacob Carlsson 1:01.11 +14.64 7 7 Mauricio Adan Grotiuz 1:02.75 +16.28 8 8 Alexandru Cebotari 1:05.21 +18.74
Heat 3 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 5 Azizbek Abdulkhabibov 45.49 2 6 Franco Gutierrez 45.65 +0.16 3 4 Bibarys Spatay 48.02 +2.53 4 7 Francesco Vallon 52.41 +6.92 5 1 Rudy Garcia-Tolson 52.82 +7.33 6 3 Liangwen Chen 55.58 +10.09 7 2 Rajveer Singh 55.83 +10.34 8 8 Frederik Dziegiel Sondergaard 1:00.08 +14.59
Heat 4 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 5 Scott Martlew 47.03 2 6 Adi Ezra 47.60 +0.57 3 4 Mykola Syniuk 50.32 +3.29 4 8 Patipol Thippaphathanat 53.76 +6.73 5 3 Hiromi Tatsumi 54.12 +7.09 6 2 Declan Farmer 56.98 +9.95 7 7 Arnt-Christian Furuberg 59.92 +12.89
Semi finals
Three semifinals were held. The results of those races was as follows:Men's KL2 200 m - Semifinals - Results
Qualification rule : First three in each heat to A final: Next three in each heat to B final.
Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 Curtis McGrath 41.78 FA 2 6 Fernando Rufino 42.76 0.98 FA 3 5 Scott Martlew 43.63 1.85 FA 4 3 Bibarys Spatay 43.81 2.03 FB 5 8 Jose Javier Pineiro 44.58 2.80 FB 6 2 Hiromi Tatsumi 48.86 7.08 FB 7 7 Francesco Vallon 49.06 7.28 8 9 Rajveer Singh 51.19 9.41 9 1 Jacob Carlsson 56.30 14.52
Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 5 Azizbek Abdulkhabibov 42.33 FA 2 6 Markus Mendy Swoboda 43.03 0.70 FA 3 3 Oybek Yuldashev 43.47 1.14 FA 4 4 Adi Ezra 44.27 1.94 FB 5 8 Tibor Kiss 44.47 2.14 FB 6 7 Emilio Ariel Atamanuk 46.06 3.73 FB 7 9 Liangwen Chen 50.46 8.13 8 1 Arnt-Christian Furuberg 59.31 16.98 2 Patipol Thippaphathanat DNF
Semifinal 3 Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 Franco Gutierrez 42.49 0.00 FA 2 7 Flavio Reitz 42.77 0.28 FA 3 6 Christian Volpi 42.80 0.31 FA 4 5 David Phillipson 42.91 0.42 FB 5 3 Mykola Syniuk 45.28 2.79 FB 6 8 Rudy Garcia-Tolson 47.87 5.38 FB 7 2 Yuguo Duan 49.80 7.31 8 9 Declan Farmer 49.87 7.38 9 1 Mauricio Adan Grotiuz 59.72 17.23
Finals
The results of the finals were as follows:Men's KL2 200 m - Finals - Results
B final Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 David Phillipson 43.69 2 6 Adi Ezra 44.98 + 1.29 3 5 Bibarys Spatay 45.45 + 1.76 4 1 Emilio Ariel Atamanuk 45.57 + 1.88 5 3 Tibor Kiss 45.73 + 2.04 6 7 Jose Javier Pineiro 45.83 + 2.14 7 8 Mykola Syniuk 46.03 + 2.34 8 2 Hiromi Tatsumi 49.80 + 6.11 9 9 Rudy Garcia-Tolson 49.84 + 6.15
A final Rank Lane Name Nation Time Gap Notes 5 Curtis McGrath 42.76 3 Fernando Rufino 42.79 + 0.03 4 Azizbek Abdulkhabibov 43.22 + 0.46 4 2 Flavio Reitz 43.44 + 0.68 5 6 Franco Gutierrez 43.57 + 0.81 6 7 Markus Mendy Swoboda 43.78 + 1.02 7 9 Christian Volpi 44.13 + 1.37 8 1 Oybek Yuldashev 44.44 + 1.68 9 8 Scott Martlew 45.21 + 2.45
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