The men's canoe event at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 22 September 2023 at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in London, with the qualification heats on 20 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 20 September 2023 11:30 Heats Run 1 14:39 Heats Run 2 22 September 2023 11:07 Semifinal 14:12 Final

Results

Benjamin Savšek won his second individual world title in the C1 event and fifth medal. He recorded a clean run in the final. Nicolas Gestin and Paolo Ceccon earned their first individual medals at the World Championships, winning silver and bronze respectively. Ceccon became the first Italian to win a medal in the C1 event.

There were 12 quota spots available for the 2024 Summer Olympics, one per country. The quota spots were secured by:

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

RankBibAthleteCountryHeatsSemifinalFinalRun 1Run 2TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank 1 Benjamin Savšek 85.97 0 7 - 98.09 2 1 97.40 0 1 5 Nicolas Gestin 85.31 0 3 - 100.57 0 8 98.58 0 2 16 Paolo Ceccon 90.23 2 27 87.63 0 8 101.22 2 10 98.90 0 3 4 14 Lukáš Rohan 89.14 0 24 86.78 0 5 100.01 0 4 98.93 0 4 5 11 Adam Burgess 85.59 0 4 - 100.18 0 6 99.80 0 5 6 8 Václav Chaloupka 89.12 2 23 86.14 0 2 100.51 0 7 100.48 0 6 7 7 Matej Beňuš 87.72 0 15 - 100.02 0 5 100.98 0 7 8 3 Sideris Tasiadis 88.00 2 16 - 99.43 0 3 104.52 4 8 9 26 Grzegorz Hedwig 87.71 2 14 - 98.48 2 2 110.33 4 9 10 2 Luka Božič 88.23 2 17 - 100.89 2 9 149.61 52 10 11 10 Ryan Westley 87.05 0 10 - 101.29 2 11 did not advance 12 4 Alexander Slafkovský 86.72 0 9 - 101.62 2 12 13 20 Jules Bernardet 85.83 0 5 - 102.35 4 13 14 13 Marko Mirgorodský 86.03 0 8 - 103.03 0 14 15 9 Franz Anton 87.62 0 13 - 103.16 0 15 16 29 Robert Hendrick 85.86 2 6 - 103.51 0 16 17 27 Matija Marinić 92.17 4 37 87.92 0 9 104.69 4 17 18 21 Timo Trummer 94.34 6 41 88.16 0 10 105.78 4 18 19 38 Casey Eichfeld 89.74 2 26 87.60 2 7 105.89 4 19 20 15 Thomas Koechlin 88.69 0 20 - 106.13 2 20 20 25 Luis Fernández 88.63 2 18 - 106.13 4 20 22 18 Kacper Sztuba 91.11 2 31 86.61 0 3 107.27 6 22 23 32 Takuya Haneda 89.02 0 22 86.07 0 1 108.61 2 23 24 12 Raffaello Ivaldi 84.40 0 2 - 109.32 4 24 25 6 Miquel Travé 84.07 2 1 - 109.68 2 25 26 67 Zhang Peng 88.92 0 21 87.35 0 6 112.26 6 26 27 23 Zachary Lokken 87.52 0 11 - 119.13 0 27 28 22 Žiga Lin Hočevar 88.68 0 19 - 159.83 52 28 29 66 Charles Corrêa 201.36 104 71 86.77 0 4 166.32 54 29 30 17 Liam Jegou 87.53 2 12 - 253.48 152 30 31 24 Jiří Prskavec 90.33 0 28 88.47 2 11 did not advance 32 35 Daniel Pérez 91.35 2 32 88.76 2 12 33 43 Kauã da Silva 91.69 0 34 89.07 0 13 34 36 James Kettle 96.56 4 49 89.12 2 14 35 31 Jake Cochrane 139.90 52 66 89.35 0 15 36 74 Anvar Klevleev 91.62 4 33 89.97 2 16 37 49 Shota Sasaki 92.04 2 36 90.18 0 17 38 30 Tristan Carter 90.38 0 29 90.29 2 18 39 39 Joris Otten 94.61 2 42 90.30 0 19 40 34 Brodie Crawford 97.45 4 51 90.46 0 20 41 50 Christos Tsakmakis 95.76 0 47 90.77 0 21 42 19 Roberto Colazingari 90.58 0 30 90.80 2 22 43 51 José Carvalho 97.95 4 52 91.11 0 23 44 46 Oliver Puchner 150.32 54 69 91.38 0 24 45 44 Xie Yuancong 145.53 54 68 91.42 0 25 46 42 Alexandr Kulikov 92.02 2 35 91.90 2 26 47 68 Chen Zhihao 95.09 0 44 91.95 0 27 48 40 Alex Baldoni 98.98 4 53 92.21 2 28 49 37 Kaylen Bassett 95.45 2 46 92.26 2 29 50 60 Abubakir Bukanov 94.99 2 43 92.56 2 30 51 53 Kuanysh Yerengaipov 93.70 4 38 92.86 0 31 52 45 Michał Wiercioch 144.10 52 67 93.13 2 32 53 41 Sebastián Rossi 94.12 0 40 93.65 2 33 54 33 Jean-Pierre Bourhis 94.05 2 39 93.78 0 34 55 54 Manuel Trípano 101.96 2 55 94.51 0 35 56 57 Sören Loos 96.72 2 50 95.29 2 36 57 48 Nathaniel Francis DNF 74 95.93 0 37 58 52 Terence Saramandif 96.04 4 48 95.99 4 38 59 47 Roko Bengeri 102.92 10 57 96.91 6 39 60 69 Liu Chin-han 95.44 2 45 96.94 2 40 61 72 Leonardo Curcel 107.31 4 60 98.23 0 41 62 58 Daniel Parry 104.95 4 59 98.53 6 42 63 56 Shota Saito 99.33 2 54 98.96 0 43 64 55 Alibek Temirgaliev 108.17 2 61 99.56 4 44 65 59 Yutthakan Chaidet 104.83 6 58 102.62 0 45 66 61 Nicolás Trípano 102.55 2 56 104.51 4 46 67 70 Ioannis Zachos 123.85 4 64 107.28 2 47 68 62 Muhammet Usta 109.12 8 62 108.69 0 48 69 65 Richard Merjan 166.57 56 70 122.15 6 49 70 28 Lucas Roisin 89.19 2 25 137.51 52 50 71 64 Emir Fazıl Yazıcı 112.83 8 63 168.69 56 51 72 73 Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani ICF 286.91 158 73 191.17 56 52 73 71 Rimantas Pumputis 229.45 110 72 196.23 58 53 74 63 Ricardo Fentanes 124.65 14 65 246.71 106 54

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