Evy Leibfarth ( ; born January 26, 2004) is an American slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2019.
She is a two time Olympian, winning a bronze medal in the C1 event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a silver the K1 event in 2026 and a bronze in kayak cross in 2021.
Career In 2019, at age 15, Leibfarth won the gold medal in the women's K1 event and the silver medal in the women's Kayak cross event at the Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.
In the same year, Leibfarth also competed at the 2019 World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships held in Kraków, Poland, winning the gold medal in the junior Kayak cross event and the bronze medal in the junior K1 event.
Leibfarth represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Leibfarth started in both women's events and finished 12th in the K1 event and 18th in the C1 event, after being eliminated in the semifinals on both occasions.
Leibfarth won a bronze medal in Kayak cross at the 2021 World Championships in Bratislava.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris she competed in all three disciplines, winning bronze in the C1 event. She also finished 15th in the K1 event and 10th in kayak cross.
At the 2026 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Oklahoma City, she won silver in the individual K1 event, the first world championship kayak slalom medal for an American woman since Rebecca Giddens' bronze K1 medal in 2003.
Personal life Leibfarth is bisexual and was among the LGBT athletes competing at two Olympic Games.
She attended Davidson College where she studied biology.
Results World Cup individual podiums Total C1 0 1 2 3 K1 1 0 3 4 Kayak cross 0 2 2 4 Kayak cross individual 0 0 2 2 Total 1 3 9 13
SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent 2019 June 23, 2019 Bratislava 2nd Kayak cross June 30, 2019 Tacen 3rd C1 2020 October 17, 2020 Tacen 3rd K1 October 18, 2020 Tacen 3rd C1 2022 June 26, 2022 Tacen 2nd C1 2024 June 2, 2024 Augsburg 3rd Kayak cross September 20, 2024 La Seu d'Urgell 3rd K1 2025 June 28, 2025 Prague 1st K1 29 June 2025 Prague 3rd Kayak cross 29 August 2025 Tacen 3rd K1 31 August 2025 Tacen 3rd Kayak cross individual 2026 14 June 2026 Augsburg 3rd Kayak cross individual 14 June 2026 Augsburg 2nd Kayak cross
Complete World Cup results Year Class WC1 WC2 WC3 WC4 WC5 Points Position2019 C1Lee Valley Bratislava 7Tacen 3Markkleeberg 26Prague 10 171 6th K11092627 105 23rd Kayak cross2 55 12th2020 C1Tacen 3Pau 16 K13102021 C1Prague 15Markkleeberg 29La Seu 28Pau 28 62 30th K128111019 123 15th Kayak cross527 48 17th Notes No overall rankings were determined by the ICF, with only two races possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
External links
Evy Leibfarth at the American Canoe Association