2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships – Women's K1 explained

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Event:	Women's kayak
Competition:	2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Venue:	Lee Valley White Water Centre
Location:	London, United Kingdom
Dates:	21–23 September 2023
Competitors:	75
Nations:	39
Gold:	Jessica Fox
Silver:	Eliška Mintálová
Bronze:	Klaudia Zwolińska
Gold Nation:	AUS
Silver Nation:	SVK
Bronze Nation:	POL
Previous:	2022
Next:	2025

The women'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 20 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
	09:00	Heats Run 1
	13:30	Heats Run 2
23 September 2023
	10:03	Semifinal
	13:35	Final

Results

Jessica Fox won her fourth individual world title in the K1 event, tying the all-time record of Ludmila Polesná (Fox surpassed Polesná in the all-time medal table because she also had 2 silvers to 1 of Polesná). Fox was the last paddler to start after winning the semifinal. She touched gate 1, but refocused and still did enough to win gold ahead of Eliška Mintálová from Slovakia, who also had one touch (on gate 3). Klaudia Zwolińska won bronze for Poland with a clean run. Both Mintálová and Zwolińska won their first individual medal at the World Championships.

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

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

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Heats						Semifinal^[1]	Final^[2]
				Run 1^[3]			Run 2^[4]
				Time		Rank	Time		Rank	Time		Rank	Time		Rank
	1			87.32	0	2	-			102.13	0	1	103.60	2	1
	8			88.35	2	7	-			106.74	4	9	104.73	2	2
	10			89.65	0	10	-			104.91	0	5	105.00	0	3
4	22			87.75	0	3	-			106.84	4	10	105.03	0	4
5	15			91.94	0	21	88.78	0	2	104.85	0	4	106.29	0	5
6	4			89.90	2	11	-			105.84	0	7	106.54	2	6
7	2			86.79	0	1	-			103.50	0	2	106.86	2	7
8	7			94.30	4	31	90.90	0	7	105.00	2	6	108.65	2	8
9	12			92.44	0	23	90.09	0	5	104.01	0	3	109.87	2	9
10	29			91.02	0	17	-			106.63	0	8	157.36	50	10
11	36			89.09	0	9	-			107.02	0	11	did not advance
12	20			88.30	0	5	-			107.20	0	12
13	16			88.83	0	8	-			108.25	2	13
14	28			89.91	0	12	-			108.58	2	14
15	9			90.59	0	16	-			109.23	2	15
16	30			95.99	4	33	88.75	0	1	109.81	2	16
17	24			91.63	0	20	-			110.07	2	17
17	33			89.97	0	13	-			110.07	2	17
19	13			88.28	2	4	-			110.10	0	19
20	25			105.17	4	44	91.38	0	10	111.33	0	20
21	17			91.61	2	19	-			111.45	2	21
22	18			93.26	0	29	90.45	0	6	114.17	4	22
23	26			93.65	2	30	89.69	0	4	116.05	6	23
24	3			88.34	0	6	-			117.21	0	24
25	39			90.56	0	15	-			121.41	6	25
26	27			91.57	0	18	-			160.91	50	26
27	14			92.94	0	26	88.89	0	3	161.30	50	27
28	34			96.44	2	34	91.05	0	8	162.62	50	28
29	6			90.26	0	14	-			164.25	50	29
30	53			93.09	2	28	91.30	0	9	165.09	52	30
31	5			92.65	2	25	92.19	2	11	did not advance
32	37			105.60	2	45	92.50	0	12
33	35			100.76	6	39	92.85	0	13
34	11			143.40	50	60	93.73	2	14
35	32			95.83	4	32	93.98	0	15
36	31			143.34	50	59	94.26	0	16
37	21			92.23	2	22	94.63	0	17
38	45	Laura Pellicer Chica		109.89	4	47	95.93	2	18
39	67	Wan Shunfang		111.09	0	50	96.14	0	19
40	19			92.60	0	24	96.19	2	20
41	40			99.98	4	37	96.80	0	21
42	41	Courtney Williams		101.60	2	41	97.12	2	22
43	47	Katja Bengeri		150.55	54	63	98.72	0	23
44	42			106.67	6	46	99.84	6	24
45	50			97.88	2	36	100.21	2	25
46	46			151.45	50	64	100.40	2	26
46	51			97.64	2	35	100.40	4	26
48	66			93.00	0	27	100.83	4	28
49	38			101.01	2	40	104.15	4	29
50	55			DNS			104.85	0	30
51	44			149.60	54	61	106.28	4	31
52	48			104.27	6	42	107.36	4	32
53	52			104.38	8	43	109.25	8	33
53	61	Nerea Castiglione		110.20	0	48	109.25	2	33
55	49			164.58	52	67	110.27	2	35
56	71	Naho Fujii		120.46	4	54	112.39	4	36
57	56			112.07	4	52	113.44	6	37
58	58	Wu Ting-I		111.65	6	51	114.71	8	38
59	54	Marcella Altman		156.34	56	65	116.30	12	39
60	60	Roxana Razeghian		125.33	8	55	122.01	8	40
61	63	Florencia Aguirre Gonzalez		129.62	8	56	127.75	14	41
62	62	Iris Sommernes		130.90	10	57	128.78	0	42
63	72	Blandine Xhemajlji		199.05	56	68	146.75	4	43
64	43			100.62	2	38	146.86	52	44
65	73	Emilie Armani		207.42	64	69	155.36	4	45
66	57			110.93	4	49	155.81	50	46
67	64	Yekaterina Tarantseva		115.71	2	53	157.80	52	47
68	69	Ana Fernandes Castro		269.76	116	70	166.99	16	48
69	68	Anaïs Mouhoub		DNF		72	176.52	10	49
70	65	Veronika Šalaševičiūtė-Turbinova		161.30	10	66	202.80	6	50
71	59	Sára Tímea Seprenyi		139.93	10	58	231.45	104	51
72	74	Luca Török		150.06	8	62	238.68	108	52
73	70	Chantal Bronkhorst		611.63	460	71	513.86	270	53
-	23			DNS			DNS
-	75	Nidhi .		DNS			DNS

Notes and References

1. Web site: 23 September 2023 . Women's Kayak - Semi-final . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231001145917/https://123result.blob.core.windows.net/canoe/CS_2023/siwidata/1711/[e-mail] . 1 October 2023 . 23 September 2023.
2. Web site: 23 September 2023 . Women's Kayak - Final . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240319034522/https://123result.blob.core.windows.net/canoe/CS_2023/siwidata/1711/[e-mail] . 19 March 2024 . 23 September 2023.
3. Web site: 21 September 2023 . Women's Kayak - Heats Run 1 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231001145655/https://123result.blob.core.windows.net/canoe/CS_2023/siwidata/1711/[e-mail] . 1 October 2023 . 22 September 2023.
4. Web site: 21 September 2023 . Women's Kayak - Heats Run 2 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231001145932/https://123result.blob.core.windows.net/canoe/CS_2023/siwidata/1711/[e-mail] . 1 October 2023 . 22 September 2023.