| Competition: | 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships |
| Dates: | 22–26 August |
| Venue: | Centro de Alto Rendimento de Montemor-o-Velho |
| Location: | Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal |
| Prev: | 2017 |
| Next: | 2019 |
The 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the 44th edition of the World Championships, were held in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, from 22 to 26 August 2018.[1]
Canoe sprint competitions were contested in either a Canadian canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200, 500, 1000 or 5000 metres. When a competition is listed as a K-2 500m event, for example, it means two people were in a kayak competing over a distance of 500 metres.[2]
Paracanoe competitions were contested in either a va'a (V), an outrigger canoe (which includes a second pontoon) with a single-blade paddle, or in a kayak (as above). All international competitions were held over 200 metres in single-man boats, with three event classes in both types of vessel for men and women depending on the level of an athlete's impairment. The lower the classification number, the more severe the impairment is - for example, VL1 is a va'a competition for those with particularly severe impairments.[3]
Non-Olympic classes
| C–1 200 m[4] | Artsem Kozyr | 39.810 | Ivan Shtyl | 39.970 | Henrikas Žustautas | 40.043 | |
| C–1 500 m[5] | Isaquias Queiroz | 1:49.203 | Sebastian Brendel | 1:49.496 | Martin Fuksa | 1:50.143 | |
| C–1 1000 m[6] | Sebastian Brendel | 3:48.390 | Martin Fuksa | 3:49.625 | Isaquias Queiroz | 3:50.190 | |
| C–1 5000 m[7] | Sebastian Brendel | 23:40.857 | Fernando Jorge | 23:46.646 | Kirill Shamshurin | 24:09.504 | |
| C–2 200 m[8] | 37.646 | 37.816 | 37.993 | ||||
| C–2 500 m[9] | 1:40.043 | 1:41.590 | 1:41.787 | ||||
| C–2 1000 m[10] | 3:38.207 | 3:39.462 | 3:40.647 | ||||
| C–4 500 m[11] | 1:35.606 | 1:36.726 | 1:37.196 |
| K–1 200 m[12] | Carlos Garrote | 35.259 | Artūras Seja | 35.366 | Evgenii Lukantsov | 35.512 | |
| K–1 500 m[13] | Josef Dostál | 1:37.905 | Tom Liebscher | 1:38.912 | Bence Nádas | 1:39.516 | |
| K–1 1000 m[14] | Fernando Pimenta | 3:27.666 | Max Rendschmidt | 3:28.391 | Josef Dostál | 3:29.177 | |
| K–1 5000 m[15] | Fernando Pimenta | 21:42.196 | René Holten Poulsen | 21:43.723 | Javier Hernanz[16] | 21:46.565 | |
| K–2 200 m[17] | 31.873 | 32.133 | 32.156 | ||||
| K–2 500 m[18] | 1:30.666 | 1:30.953 | 1:31.449 | ||||
| K–2 1000 m[19] | 3:15.797 | 3:16.617 | 3:17.407 | ||||
| K–4 500 m[20] | 1:20.056 | 1:20.423 | 1:21.480 | ||||
| K–4 1000 m[21] | 2:57.947 | 2:58.914 | 2:59.341 |
Non-Olympic classes
| C–1 200 m[22] | Laurence Vincent-Lapointe | 45.567 | Olesia Romasenko | 46.242 | Dorota Borowska | 46.812 | |
| Alena Nazdrova | |||||||
| C–1 500 m[23] | Kseniia Kurach | 2:10.991 | Alena Nazdrova | 2:11.631 | Katie Vincent | 2:12.148 | |
| C–1 5000 m[24] | Laurence Vincent-Lapointe | 27:43.020 | Annika Loske | 27:52.541 | María Mailliard | 27:59.547 | |
| C–2 200 m[25] | 45.234 | 46.158 | 46.668 | ||||
| C–2 500 m[26] | 1:56.395 | 1:58.632 | 2:00.485 |
| K–1 200 m[27] | Lisa Carrington | 38.821 | Emma Jørgensen | 40.548 | Linnea Stensils | 40.585 | |
| K–1 500 m[28] | Danuta Kozák | 1:47.254 | Lisa Carrington | 1:47.984 | Volha Khudzenka | 1:48.724 | |
| K–1 1000 m[29] | Dóra Bodonyi | 4:02.892 | Lizzie Broughton | 4:03.927 | Bridgitte Hartley | 4:04.017 | |
| K–1 5000 m[30] | Lizzie Broughton | 24:01.737 | Maryna Litvinchuk | 24:12.014 | Jennifer Egan | 24:15.075 | |
| K–2 200 m[31] | 37.157 | 37.197 | 37.294 | ||||
| K–2 500 m[32] | 1:43.065 | 1:43.088 | 1:45.589 | ||||
| K–2 1000 m[33] | 3:39.811 | 3:43.758 | 3:45.091 | ||||
| K–4 500 m[34] | 1:33.761 | 1:33.771 | 1:34.568 |
Non-Paralympic classes
| Men's KL1[35] | Esteban Farias | 49.796 | Róbert Suba | 50.606 | Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva | 51.376 | ||
| Men's KL2[36] | Curtis McGrath | 41.735 | Scott Martlew | 42.360 | Mykola Syniuk | 43.230 | ||
| Men's KL3[37] | Serhii Yemelianov | 39.031 | Caio Carvalho | 39.761 | Leonid Krylov | 40.896 | ||
| Men's VL1[38] | Peter Happ | 1:18.764 | Robinson Méndez | 1:34.300 | not awarded as there were only 2 entries | |||
| Men's VL2[39] | Igor Tofalini | 54.316 | Luis Carlos Cardoso da Silva | 54.911 | Marius Ciustea | 55.246 | ||
| Men's VL3[40] | Curtis McGrath | 47.642 | Caio Carvalho | 48.837 | Jack Eyers | 49.492 | ||
| Women's KL1[41] | Maryna Mazhula | 55.665 | Eleonora de Paolis | 56.795 | Jeanette Chippington | 57.050 | ||
| Women's KL2[42] | Charlotte Henshaw | 52.627 | Emma Wiggs | 53.402 | Nadezda Andreeva | 56.412 | ||
| Women's KL3[43] | Helene Ripa | 53.671 | Amanda Reynolds | 53.881 | Mihaela Lulea | 54.826 | ||
| Women's VL1[44] | Monika Seryu | 1:14.942 | not awarded as there was only 1 entry | |||||
| Women's VL2[45] | Emma Wiggs | 57.766 | Jeanette Chippington | 1:00.491 | Maria Nikiforova | 1:00.546 | ||
| Women's VL3[46] | Larisa Volik | 1:06.262 | Nataliia Lagutenko | 1:06.397 | Charlotte Henshaw | 1:06.407 | ||