The 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Seville, Spain.
The men's competition consisted of nine Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Women competed in nine events, all in kayak.
This was the 32nd championships in canoe sprint.
Doping controversy Dmitiry Sabin of Ukraine won the silver in the C-1 200 m event, but was disqualified when he tested positive for doping. Sabin became the first person to fail a doping test in canoe sprint at an Olympic or world championship level though he did compete at the following year's world championships.
Medal summary Men's Non-Olympic classes
Canoe C-1 200 m 39.257 39.843 40.176C-1 500 m 1:50.596 1:51.636 1:51.843C-1 1000 m 3:49.031 3:49.644 3:50.737C-2 200 m Ibrahim RojasLedis Balceiro37.027 Petr FuksaPetr Netušil37.100 Mikhail VartolemeiIonel Averian37.240C-2 500 m Ibrahim RojasLedis Balceiro1:43.467 Florin PopescuSilviu Simioncencu1:43.960 Sergey UleginAleksandr Kostoglod1:44.280C-2 1000 m Marcin KobierskiMichał Śliwiński3:32.456 Ibrahim RojasLedis Balceiro3:33.676 Richard DaltonMike Scarola3:33.969C-4 200 m Maksim OpalevRoman KruglyakovSergey UleginAleksandr Kostoglod33.650 Petr FuksaJan BřečkaPetr ProcházkaKarel Kožíšek33.964 Mikhail VartolemeiIonel AverianMitică PricopPetre Condrat34.237C-4 500 m Mikhail VartolemeiIonel AverianMitică PricopFlorin Popescu1:34.758 Konstantin FomichevAleksandr ArtemidaRoman KrugylakovAndrey Kabanov1:35.231 Daniel JędraszkoAdam GinterMichał ŚliwińskiMarcin Grzybowski1:35.338C-4 1000 m Andrzej JezierskiAdam GinterMichal GajowinkRoman Rynkiewicz3:17.794 Dimitri JoukovskiMaxim BoilardTamas Buday Jr.Attila Buday3:18.127 Aleksandr ZhukovskiyAleksandr KurlandchikAleksandr BagdanovichSermen Saponenko3:18.421
Kayak K-1 200 m K-1 500 m K-1 1000 m K-2 200 m Alvydas DuonėlaEgidijus Balčiūnas Marek TwardowskiAdam Wysocki Ronald RauheTim WieskötterK-2 500 m Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter Adam WysockiMarek Twardowski Zoltán KammererBotond StorczK-2 1000 m Markus OscarssonHenrik Nilsson Eirik Verås LarsenNils Fjeldheim Ákos VereckiKrisztián VerébK-4 200 m Martin ChorváthRastislav KuželLadislav BelovičJuraj Lipták Manuel MuñozJaime AcuñaAike GonzálezOier Aizpurua Vince FehérváriRóbert HegedűsGábor HorvárthIstván BeéK-4 500 m Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Bača Roman PiatrushenkoAleksey SkurkovskiyAleksey AbalmasovVadzim Makhneu Manuel MuñozJaime AcuñaAike GonzálezOier AizpuruaK-4 1000 m Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Bača Mark ZabelBjörn BachStefan UlmAndreas Ihle Petar MerkovMilko KazanovIvan HristovYordano Yordanov
Women's Non-Olympic classes
Kayak K-1 200 m K-1 500 m K-1 1000 m K-2 200 m Beatriz ManchónSonia Molanes Aneta PastuszkaJoanna Skowroń Bonka PindzevaDelyana DachevaK-2 500 m Szilvia SzabóKinga Bóta Katrin WagnerManuela Mucke Sonia MolanesBeatriz ManchónK-2 1000 m Szilvia SzabóKinga Bóta Nadine Opgen-RheinManuela Mucke Adi GafniLarissa PessakhovitchK-4 200 m Nataša JanićSzilvia SzabóErzsébet ViskiTímea Paksy Teresa PortelaSonia MolanesBeatriz ManchónMaria Garcia Katrin WagnerAnett SchuckManuela MuckeMaike NollenK-4 500 m Katalin KovácsSzilvia SzabóKinga BótaErzsébet Viski Katrin WagnerAnett SchuckManuela MuckeMaike Nollen Teresa PortelaSonia MolanesBeatriz ManchónMaria GarciaK-4 1000 m Aneta PastuszkaJoanna SkowrońKarolina SadalskaAneta Białkowska Zhong HongyanFan LinaGao YiXu Linbei Tímea PaksyKatalin MoniAlexandra KeresztesiErzsébet Viski
Medal table
References ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007. ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.