The women's kayak event at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 September 2023 at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in London, with the qualification heats on 21 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 21 September 2023 09:00 Heats Run 1 13:30 Heats Run 2 23 September 2023 10:03 Semifinal 13:35 Final

Results

Jessica Fox won her fourth individual world title in the K1 event, tying the all-time record of Ludmila Polesná (Fox surpassed Polesná in the all-time medal table because she also had 2 silvers to 1 of Polesná). Fox was the last paddler to start after winning the semifinal. She touched gate 1, but refocused and still did enough to win gold ahead of Eliška Mintálová from Slovakia, who also had one touch (on gate 3). Klaudia Zwolińska won bronze for Poland with a clean run. Both Mintálová and Zwolińska won their first individual medal at the World Championships.

There were 15 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 Jessica Fox 87.32 0 2 - 102.13 0 1 103.60 2 1 8 Eliška Mintálová 88.35 2 7 - 106.74 4 9 104.73 2 2 10 Klaudia Zwolińska 89.65 0 10 - 104.91 0 5 105.00 0 3 4 22 Martina Wegman 87.75 0 3 - 106.84 4 10 105.03 0 4 5 15 Ana Sátila 91.94 0 21 88.78 0 2 104.85 0 4 106.29 0 5 6 4 Stefanie Horn 89.90 2 11 - 105.84 0 7 106.54 2 6 7 2 Ricarda Funk 86.79 0 1 - 103.50 0 2 106.86 2 7 8 7 Mallory Franklin 94.30 4 31 90.90 0 7 105.00 2 6 108.65 2 8 9 12 Luuka Jones 92.44 0 23 90.09 0 5 104.01 0 3 109.87 2 9 10 29 Soňa Stanovská 91.02 0 17 - 106.63 0 8 157.36 50 10 11 36 Marjorie Delassus 89.09 0 9 - 107.02 0 11 did not advance 12 20 Evy Leibfarth 88.30 0 5 - 107.20 0 12 13 16 Mònica Dòria Vilarrubla 88.83 0 8 - 108.25 2 13 14 28 Emma Vuitton 89.91 0 12 - 108.58 2 14 15 9 Maialen Chourraut 90.59 0 16 - 109.23 2 15 16 30 Alena Marx 95.99 4 33 88.75 0 1 109.81 2 16 17 24 Lena Teunissen 91.63 0 20 - 110.07 2 17 17 33 Phoebe Spicer 89.97 0 13 - 110.07 2 17 19 13 Kimberley Woods 88.28 2 4 - 110.10 0 19 20 25 Antonie Galušková 105.17 4 44 91.38 0 10 111.33 0 20 21 17 Corinna Kuhnle 91.61 2 19 - 111.45 2 21 22 18 Amálie Hilgertová 93.26 0 29 90.45 0 6 114.17 4 22 23 26 Laia Sorribes 93.65 2 30 89.69 0 4 116.05 6 23 24 3 Elena Lilik 88.34 0 6 - 117.21 0 24 25 39 Omira Estácia Neta 90.56 0 15 - 121.41 6 25 26 27 Ajda Novak 91.57 0 18 - 160.91 50 26 27 14 Viktoriia Us 92.94 0 26 88.89 0 3 161.30 50 27 28 34 Aki Yazawa 96.44 2 34 91.05 0 8 162.62 50 28 29 6 Camille Prigent 90.26 0 14 - 164.25 50 29 30 53 Kate Eckhardt 93.09 2 28 91.30 0 9 165.09 52 30 31 5 Eva Terčelj 92.65 2 25 92.19 2 11 did not advance 32 37 Ria Sribar 105.60 2 45 92.50 0 12 33 35 Chiara Sabattini 100.76 6 39 92.85 0 13 34 11 Tereza Fišerová 143.40 50 60 93.73 2 14 35 32 Carole Bouzidi 95.83 4 32 93.98 0 15 36 31 Jasmin Schornberg 143.34 50 59 94.26 0 16 37 21 Eva Alina Hočevar 92.23 2 22 94.63 0 17 38 45 Laura Pellicer Chica 109.89 4 47 95.93 2 18 39 67 Wan Shunfang 111.09 0 50 96.14 0 19 40 19 Natalia Pacierpnik 92.60 0 24 96.19 2 20 41 40 Li Tong 99.98 4 37 96.80 0 21 42 41 Courtney Williams 101.60 2 41 97.12 2 22 43 47 Katja Bengeri 150.55 54 63 98.72 0 23 44 42 Michaela Haššová 106.67 6 46 99.84 6 24 45 50 Léa Baldoni 97.88 2 36 100.21 2 25 46 46 Florence Maheu 151.45 50 64 100.40 2 26 46 51 Lois Betteridge 97.64 2 35 100.40 4 26 48 66 Li Lu 93.00 0 27 100.83 4 28 49 38 Hannah Thomas 101.01 2 40 104.15 4 29 50 55 Viktoriia Dobrotvorska DNS 104.85 0 30 51 44 Dominika Brzeska 149.60 54 61 106.28 4 31 52 48 Madison Corcoran 104.27 6 42 107.36 4 32 53 52 Kurumi Ito 104.38 8 43 109.25 8 33 53 61 Nerea Castiglione 110.20 0 48 109.25 2 33 55 49 Jane Nicholas 164.58 52 67 110.27 2 35 56 71 Naho Fujii 120.46 4 54 112.39 4 36 57 56 Sofía Reinoso 112.07 4 52 113.44 6 37 58 58 Wu Ting-I 111.65 6 51 114.71 8 38 59 54 Marcella Altman 156.34 56 65 116.30 12 39 60 60 Roxana Razeghian 125.33 8 55 122.01 8 40 61 63 Florencia Aguirre Gonzalez 129.62 8 56 127.75 14 41 62 62 Iris Sommernes 130.90 10 57 128.78 0 42 63 72 Blandine Xhemajlji 199.05 56 68 146.75 4 43 64 43 Olatz Arregui 100.62 2 38 146.86 52 44 65 73 Emilie Armani 207.42 64 69 155.36 4 45 66 57 Anna Lychko 110.93 4 49 155.81 50 46 67 64 Yekaterina Tarantseva 115.71 2 53 157.80 52 47 68 69 Ana Fernandes Castro 269.76 116 70 166.99 16 48 69 68 Anaïs Mouhoub DNF 72 176.52 10 49 70 65 Veronika Šalaševičiūtė-Turbinova 161.30 10 66 202.80 6 50 71 59 Sára Tímea Seprenyi 139.93 10 58 231.45 104 51 72 74 Luca Török 150.06 8 62 238.68 108 52 73 70 Chantal Bronkhorst 611.63 460 71 513.86 270 53 - 23 Viktoria Wolffhardt DNS DNS - 75 Nidhi . DNS DNS

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