The 2002 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Bourg St.-Maurice, France under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the record-tying third time. It was the 27th edition. Bourg St.-Maurice hosted the championships previously in 1969 and 1987, and matches the times hosted by Spittal, Austria (1963, 1965, 1977) and Meran, Italy (1953, 1971, 1983). Beginning at these championships, this event would be held on an annual basis in non-Summer Olympic years. The 2001 championships were scheduled to take place in Ducktown, Tennessee (East of Chattanooga) in September that year on the canoe slalom course used for the 1996 Summer Olympics in neighboring Atlanta, but were cancelled in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | 192.92 | 199.29 | 199.32 | |||||||||
| C1 team | Přemysl Vlk Jan Mašek Stanislav Ježek | 224.27 | Sören Kaufmann Jan Benzien Stefan Pfannmöller | 226.55 | Jurij Korenjak Dejan Stevanovič Simon Hočevar | 236.59 | ||||||
| C2 | Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner | 206.21 | Pierre Luquet Christophe Luquet | 209.41 | Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder | 209.53 | ||||||
| C2 team | Pierre Luquet & Christophe Luquet Alexandre Lauvergne & Nathanael Fouquet Philippe Quémerais & Yann Le Pennec | 239.09 | Kay Simon & Robby Simon Kai Walter & Frank Henze André Ehrenberg & Michael Senft | 257.07 | Dariusz Wrzosek & Bartłomiej Kruczek Jarosław Miczek & Wojciech Sekuła Andrzej Wójs & Sławomir Mordarski | 265.80 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K1 | 184.89 | 189.94 | 190.10 | |||||||||
| K1 team | Claus Suchanek Thomas Becker Thomas Schmidt | 214.11 | Pierpaolo Ferrazzi Matteo Pontarollo Luca Costa | 216.64 | Thomas Monier Benoît Peschier Fabien Lefèvre | 218.25 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K1 | 216.09 | 218.11 | 222.46 | |||||||||
| K1 team | Aline Tornare Mathilde Pichery Anne-Lise Bardet | 294.73 | Marie Řihošková Marcela Sadilová Irena Pavelková | 298.78 | Helen Reeves Laura Blakeman Heather Corrie | 306.24 |