2025 ICF SLALOM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | ICF SLALOM 2025 Run

 2025 ICF SLALOM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | ICF SLALOM 2025



Basic Information

  • Event name: 2025 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

  • Host city / Venue: Penrith Whitewater Stadium, near Sydney, Australia

  • Dates: 29 September to 4 October 2025

  • The event is a Senior level competition (i.e. not junior or U23)


Participants & Scale

  • More than 300 athletes expected

  • From about 50 countries

  • Medal events: 10-12, including canoe and kayak singles (C1, K1), team events, plus Kayak Cross (this last one is debuting as a medal event)


Events & Medal Categories

Here are the events that will be held / contested:

  • Men’s C1 (Canoe Single)

  • Men’s C1 Team

  • Men’s K1 (Kayak Single)

  • Men’s K1 Team

  • Men’s Kayak Cross Individual

  • Women’s C1

  • Women’s C1 Team

  • Women’s K1

  • Women’s K1 Team

  • Women’s Kayak Cross Individual

(The total medal events will include these and possibly other mixed or repechage/qualifier medal events, which make up the ~10-12 medals.)


Schedule Outline

Over the six-day competition there will be phases like:

  1. Opening Day: includes Kayak Cross Individual & medals

  2. Next days: Canoe heats, Canoe team finals & medals

  3. Then: Kayak heats, Kayak team finals & medals

  4. Semi-finals and Finals for Canoe

  5. Semi-finals and Finals for Kayak

  6. Closing Day

Also there is repechage rounds (second-chance heats) for Kayak Cross, etc.


“Team Info”/Logistics Details

  • Official and unofficial training sessions before the event

  • Course design: there are specific courses for Canoe, Kayak, and Kayak Cross

  • There are information bulletins for teams covering visa, border entry, transport, etc.

  • Competition schedule made available; course maps/training schedule also published for teams


Significance & History

  • This is the 44th edition of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

  • Penrith will be hosting again; the stadium was used in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and previously hosted World Championships in 2005

  • Kayak Cross is making its debut as a medal event at this Worlds

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