The Women's C1 at the 2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 and 26 September 2021 at the Čunovo Water Sports Centre in Bratislava. It was the 9th official edition of the event, after it made its debut in 2010. 44 athletes from 22 nations competed.
The event was won by Elena Apel of Germany, securing her second medal of the Championships after she won silver in K1. Briton Mallory Franklin won silver for the fourth time, her fifth ever medal in this event. 2020 European Champion Gabriela Satková of the Czech Republic won bronze, her first individual medal at world championship level.
Background Andrea Herzog of Germany entered the event as the reigning world champion, having taken the title in 2019 in La Seu d'Urgell. This was the first World Championships since women's C1 made its Olympic debut at Tokyo, where Jess Fox won gold ahead of Mallory Franklin and Herzog. Czech Tereza Fišerová came into the event having taken her first World Cup overall title after winning the final round in Pau. All four were favourites for the title as the highest ranked athletes by the ICF.
Competition format The women's C1 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 20 fastest women 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.
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.
Schedule All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) Date Time RoundThursday, 23 September 2021 15:00 Heats Run 1 17:00 Heats Run 2Sunday, 26 September 2021 09:03 Semifinal 11:33 Final
Results Kimberley Woods set the fastest time in the first heat with a penalty-free 92.11. This was particularly significant, given she had been in a wheelchair a week earlier, following a car accident. Fellow countrywoman Mallory Franklin set the second fastest time, ahead of Australian Jessica Fox. World No. 5 Ana Sátila did not qualify directly to the semifinal after receiving a 50-second penalty but set the second fastest time of the day to win the second heat.
The Russian Canoe Federation's Alsu Minazova topped the semifinal with a time of 103.55 ahead of Angèle Hug of France. In an upset semifinal on a difficult course, Olympic Champion Fox, European Champion Miren Lazkano, World Cup overall winner Tereza Fišerová and reigning World Champion Andrea Herzog were all eliminated - the first two after incurring 50 second penalties. Fox' penalty meant that she would leave the World Championships without a medal in a canoe slalom event for the first time since 2011 and without making a final for the first time in her entire career.
Elena Apel of Germany backed up her silver medal in K1 by becoming the 2021 C1W World Champion in a time of 99.03, including a 2-second penalty. Olympic silver-medallist Franklin won silver, whilst 2020 European Champion Gabriela Satková took bronze. In a marked difference to the semifinal where just three athletes completed clean runs, only two athletes took penalties, including Apel.
Penalties are included in the time shown. The fastest time in each round is shown in bold. RankBibCanoeistNationHeatsSemifinalFinalRun 1Run 2TimeOrderTimeOrderTimeOrderTimeOrder 11 Elena Apel 96.44 2 5 - 108.00 4 8 99.03 2 1 2 Mallory Franklin 93.47 0 2 - 109.19 6 10 99.34 0 2 26 Gabriela Satková 98.31 0 10 - 105.25 0 4 102.50 0 3 4 16 Monika Škáchová 103.59 2 24 102.51 2 8 107.09 2 7 103.57 0 4 5 20 Marjorie Delassus 100.82 2 15 - 107.08 6 6 103.88 0 5 6 10 Noemie Fox 98.97 0 13 - 108.99 4 9 104.49 0 6 7 6 Núria Vilarrubla 95.89 0 4 - 104.84 0 3 104.71 0 7 8 15 Alsu Minazova RCF 100.74 2 14 - 103.55 2 1 105.67 0 8 9 30 Angèle Hug 97.33 0 8 - 104.59 2 2 116.10 6 9 10 22 Alja Kozorog 100.92 0 16 - 106.48 2 5 117.40 0 10 11 8 Mònica Dòria 97.27 0 7 - 109.20 4 11 did not advance 12 21 Martina Satková 103.50 0 23 98.93 0 3 109.73 2 12 13 3 Tereza Fišerová 96.40 2 12 - 109.74 4 13 14 4 Andrea Herzog 97.82 2 9 - 109.85 8 14 15 7 Kimberley Woods 92.11 0 1 - 111.70 4 15 16 29 Elena Micozzi 106.67 2 29 99.49 2 4 113.41 6 16 17 12 Evy Leibfarth 104.13 0 25 102.03 0 6 115.50 0 17 18 39 Zuzana Paňková 101.65 2 18 - 115.89 4 18 19 23 Polina Mukhgaleeva RCF 102.92 4 22 105.93 4 10 116.31 4 19 20 14 Lucie Prioux 98.31 0 10 - 116.46 2 20 21 5 Ana Sátila 150.24 50 39 93.31 0 1 116.50 6 21 22 31 Simona Glejteková 105.44 0 26 103.47 0 9 118.71 4 22 23 37 Hannah Thomas 114.25 6 35 102.25 2 7 126.39 4 23 24 19 Bethan Forrow 153.84 52 40 95.40 0 2 129.78 6 24 25 9 Klara Olazabal 97.13 0 6 - 141.95 6 25 26 1 Jessica Fox 94.06 0 3 - 149.06 50 26 27 13 Miren Lazkano 102.29 6 21 101.36 0 5 161.76 52 27 28 25 Aleksandra Stach 102.14 0 20 - 162.67 56 28 29 17 Viktoriia Us 101.04 2 17 - 163.63 52 29 30 33 Klaudia Zwolińska 101.66 4 19 - 170.75 54 30 31 38 Omira Estácia Neta 111.80 4 34 106.72 0 11 did not advance 32 34 Chiara Sabattini 165.78 52 41 109.37 4 12 33 42 Katja Bengeri 123.71 6 38 109.94 4 13 34 35 Lois Betteridge 110.09 2 33 110.03 4 14 35 36 Alena Marx 106.29 2 28 113.94 4 15 36 18 Eva Alina Hočevar 109.26 4 32 113.94 4 16 37 28 Viktoriia Dobrotvorska 123.01 2 37 114.54 4 17 38 27 Zulfiia Sabitova RCF 105.48 2 27 115.72 6 18 39 32 Lea Novak 108.08 2 31 123.07 0 19 40 41 Katarzyna Liber 122.38 6 36 124.54 2 20 41 40 Chung Yu-Han 185.63 58 42 128.12 4 21 42 24 Marta Bertoncelli 107.20 0 30 149.20 50 22 43 44 Georgia Morou 340.42 210 43 314.25 158 23 44 43 Veronika Salaseviciute-Turbinova 353.97 168 44 551.76 358 24
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