2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships – Men's K1 explained

Event:Men's K1
Competition:2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Venue:Čunovo Water Sports Centre
Location:Bratislava, Slovakia
Dates:23–25 September 2021
Competitors:80
Nations:36
Gold:Boris Neveu
Silver:Marcello Beda
Bronze:Joan Crespo
Gold Nation:FRA
Silver Nation:ITA
Bronze Nation:ESP
Next:2022

The Men's K1 at the 2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 and 25 September 2021 at the Čunovo Water Sports Centre in Bratislava.[1] It was the 41st edition of the event, and 80 athletes from 36 nations competed.[2]

The event was won by Boris Neveu of France, winning his second title, after he led a French one-two-three in 2014. Italian underdog Marcello Beda won silver in his first international final, while Joan Crespo matched his result from 2019 with bronze.[3]

Background

Czech Jiří Prskavec entered the event a clear favourite, as the reigning World Champion, Olympic Champion and World No. 1.[4] [5] The host nation Slovakia fielded Olympic silver medallist Jakub Grigar.[6] Czech Vít Přindiš came into the event having won the last two World Cup rounds en route to the overall World Cup title, also winning the European Championships and the extreme overall World Cup title.[7] World No. 3 Joe Clarke also entered as a favourite, and with something to prove after not qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.[8] Andrej Málek was the last athlete to win a major ICF race on the Bratislava course, winning the second round of the 2019 World Cup, but he did not take part after retiring in 2020.[9]

Competition format

The Men's K1 event in canoe slalom uses a three-round format with heats, a semifinal and final. Athletes complete up to two runs in the heats. In the first heat, the 30 fastest men qualify automatically for the semifinal, whilst the rest complete another run in the repêchage second heat for a further 10 qualification positions. The final rank of non-qualifying athletes is determined by their second run score. Athletes 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 athlete with the best time in the single-run final is awarded gold.[10]

Penalties of 2 or 50 seconds are incurred for infractions such as missing a gate, touching a gate, or not negotiating gates in numerical order. A team may request up to one review of a penalty per boat in the heats or semifinals phases, with no enquiries considered in the finals.[10]

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

DateTimeRound
Thursday, 23 September 2021
10:03 Heats Run 1
12:32 Heats Run 2
Saturday, 25 September 2021
10:08 Semifinal
12:40 Final

Results

2014 World Champion Boris Neveu topped the first heat with a clean 82.14, a day after winning the Team world title, ahead of Czechs Vít Přindiš and Vavřinec Hradilek.[11] Sergei Maimistov won the second heat representing the Russian Canoe Federation, 1.15 off Neveu's first run time. Joe Clarke and Slovak Martin Halčin were the two highest ranked athletes to miss out on the semifinal. With both Germans Noah Hegge and Stefan Hengst setting equal times of 85.95 in the first heats run to finish 30th, 41 athletes progressed to the semifinal. 34 of the 41 who progressed to the semifinal did so with a penalty-free run.

The semifinal was won by home favourite Jakub Grigar, with a time of 85.16, ahead of Hegge and Marcello Beda, both making their first World Championship final. After the nation won 4 of the last 6 World Championship titles in this event, no Czech athletes qualified for the final, making this the first final without Czech participation since 2014. By finishing 9th in the semifinal, Brazilian Pedro Gonçalves became the first South American to progress to the World Championships final in this event since Thomas Bersinger placed 4th in 2014. This also marked the first time since 1995 that all three German athletes made the final.

Neveu became the 2021 K1M World Champion with a clean run of 83.92, almost 4 seconds clear of silver medalist Beda, while Joan Crespo won bronze at a second consecutive World Championship. The standard in the final was such that 7 of the athletes would have won a medal, had they completed the course in the same time as their semifinal.

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

RankBibCanoeistNationHeatsSemifinal[12] Final[13]
Run 1[14] Run 2[15]
TimeOrderTimeOrderTimeOrderTimeOrder
6 82.14 0 1 - 87.12 2 6 83.92 0 1
33 85.74 0 27 - 86.82 0 3 87.75 0 2
10 85.33 0 21 - 87.05 0 4 87.90 2 3
4 7 83.05 0 4 - 87.91 2 8 90.22 4 4
5 23 85.95 2 30 - 88.66 2 10 90.68 2 5
6 30 85.95 0 30 - 86.25 0 2 91.18 4 6
7 12 84.24 0 14 - 85.16 0 1 92.39 2 7
8 2 83.20 0 5 - 87.47 4 7 136.10 52 8
9 5 84.75 0 18 - 87.09 0 5 139.72 52 9
10 28 87.62 0 39 85.97 2 7 88.15 0 9 141.22 54 10
11 1 84.87 0 19 - 88.71 0 11 did not advance
12 9 86.57 2 34 86.67 0 9 88.81 2 12
13 22 88.78 0 42 84.68 0 3 88.95 0 13
14 43 83.91 2 12 - 89.05 2 14
15 8 85.38 2 22 - 89.07 2 15
16 21 84.43 0 16 - 89.10 0 16
17 11 85.90 0 29 - 89.19 0 17
18 20 85.72 0 26 - 90.37 0 18
19 27 83.23 0 6 - 91.19 4 19
20 37 85.50 0 24 - 91.44 2 20
21 16 83.83 0 11 - 91.83 4 21
22 24 86.57 2 34 83.85 0 2 92.06 0 22
23 15 85.38 0 22 - 92.44 4 23
24 32 84.25 0 15 - 92.58 2 24
24 40 141.44 50 73 85.38 0 6 92.58 6 24
26 17 85.82 0 28 - 92.61 2 26
27 13 83.60 0 7 - 92.96 6 27
28 47 88.26 2 41 83.29 0 1 93.48 0 28
29 49 84.73 2 17 - 93.78 2 29
30 39 Gelindo Chiarello 86.52 0 33 84.73 0 4 93.96 4 30
31 31 84.88 0 20 - 95.57 4 31
32 48 86.44 2 32 86.32 0 8 95.80 4 32
33 42 83.78 0 10 - 98.27 8 33
34 36 87.03 2 37 84.82 0 5 99.52 6 34
35 14 83.71 0 9 - 136.54 52 35
36 4 82.51 0 2 - 136.74 50 36
37 25 84.19 0 13 - 138.21 50 37
38 19 82.85 0 3 - 139.35 52 38
39 26 85.55 0 25 - 139.37 52 39
40 41 92.15 2 51 87.23 0 10 142.68 54 40
41 29 83.60 0 7 - 154.51 56 41
42 34 141.86 50 74 87.74 0 11 did not advance
43 18 90.64 0 46 87.97 2 12
44 52 91.40 0 50 88.21 0 13
45 59 Jordan Sherman 90.78 0 47 88.48 0 14
46 44 89.18 0 45 88.82 0 15
47 3 86.71 2 36 90.11 0 16
48 70 Djanibek Temirgaliev 91.04 0 48 90.29 0 17
49 35 87.22 2 38 91.61 0 18
50 58 Kaelin Friedenson 96.17 6 53 92.16 0 19
51 53 Trevor Boyd 99.98 6 60 92.39 0 20
52 45 Guilherme Rodrigues 89.13 0 44 93.11 2 21
53 50 Martin Stanovsky 96.94 2 55 95.93 2 22
54 51 Yusuke Muto 87.73 0 40 96.25 6 23
55 60 Angel Petrushev 97.05 2 56 96.47 2 24
56 63 Milos Jevtic 103.72 2 63 96.48 2 25
57 62 Moritz Kremslehner 94.58 2 52 96.84 0 26
58 46 88.82 0 43 97.33 2 27
59 71 Barkamol Mirzakhamdamov 96.88 2 54 99.73 2 28
60 55 Mael Rivard 103.99 2 64 101.33 0 29
61 77 Niek Hendriks 99.02 4 58 102.20 4 30
62 76 Donovan Wewege 130.84 2 71 102.66 2 31
63 66 Ognjen Dimitrijevic 165.87 56 78 102.71 0 32
64 78 Martins Plaudis 114.96 4 66 103.99 0 33
65 64 Nour Ait Kaddour 99.91 2 59 105.99 6 34
66 67 Marko Dordevic 98.59 2 57 110.25 0 35
67 61 Gustas Malakauskas 103.12 4 61 110.57 0 36
68 56 Jean-Benoit Lemay 148.48 52 75 110.99 8 37
69 75 Vejas Pranskunas 121.38 6 69 115.14 6 38
70 54 Andraz Echeverria Olguin 103.70 6 62 124.87 2 39
71 69 Ricardo Fentanes 132.83 6 72 129.01 4 40
72 79 Patrick Kozma 358.59 204 79 129.05 4 41
73 38 91.21 2 49 135.47 50 42
74 74 Alexandr Voroshilov 104.80 0 65 156.68 52 43
75 72 Samuel Muturi 118.74 4 67 162.87 2 44
76 57 Jun Yi Ong 120.84 8 68 168.30 54 45
77 80 Matteo-Alexander Olar 122.56 8 70 170.97 4 46
78 68 Ignacio Bakovic 158.86 52 77 205.64 100 47
79 65 Vilius Rasimavicius 155.76 56 76 211.65 106 48
80 73 Levis Peter Karanja 611.85 514 80 542.62 458 49

Notes and References

  1. News: September 22, 2021 . France ends Slovakia canoe dominance . ICF Media . en . 17 May 2022.
  2. Web site: Men's Kayak - Heats Run 1 Start List . 17 May 2022.
  3. News: September 25, 2021 . Funk makes canoe history in Bratislava . ICF Media . en . 17 May 2022.
  4. Web site: Men's K1 results (La Seu 2019). 17 May 2022.
  5. Web site: ICF Canoe Slalom World Rankings . 17 May 2022.
  6. Web site: Results (Tokyo Final). 17 May 2022. Olympics. ja. 30 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210730095556/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/CSL/OG2020-_CSL_C73A_CSLMK1----------------FNL-000100--.pdf. dead.
  7. Web site: 2021 World Cup Final Ranking . CanoeSlalom.net . 17 May 2022.
  8. News: September 21, 2021 . Will slalom history be made in Bratislava? . ICF Media . en . 17 May 2022.
  9. Web site: K1M official result list – World Cup Race 2 . 17 May 2022.
  10. Web site: ICF Canoe Slalom Competition Rules 2019 . 17 May 2022.
  11. News: September 23, 2021 . It takes more than a car crash to bring Woods down . ICF Media . en . 17 May 2022.
  12. Web site: Men's Kayak - Semifinal Results List . 17 May 2022.
  13. Web site: Men's Kayak - Final Results List . 17 May 2022.
  14. Web site: Men's Kayak - Heats Run 1 Results List . 17 May 2022.
  15. Web site: Men's Kayak - Heats Run 2 Results List . 17 May 2022.

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