The men's canoe event at the 2025 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 2 October 2025 at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium in Penrith, with the qualification heats run on 30 September 2025.

Competition format The event uses a three-round format with qualification heats, semifinal and final. The top 30 paddlers from the single qualification run qualify for the semifinal. Paddlers start in the reverse order of their qualification position in the semifinal and complete a single run, with the top 12 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 qualification course had 22 gates including 6 upstream gates (2-7-10-11-15-21). The semifinal and final course had 25 gates with 6 upstream gates (4-5-11-12-20-24).

Schedule The final was moved forward from 14:33 to 13:03 due to threat of high winds.

All times listed are UTC+10.

Date Time Round 30 September 2025 10:03 Heats 2 October 2025 10:33 Semifinal 13:03 Final

Results

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

RankBibCanoeistNationHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank 1 1 Nicolas Gestin 95.70 2 10 101.66 2 1 97.13 0 1 2 9 Ryan Westley 96.94 0 14 103.94 2 10 98.03 0 2 3 21 Kaylen Bassett 95.03 0 8 103.42 0 8 98.74 0 3 4 5 Miquel Travé 94.24 0 3 103.53 0 9 99.60 0 4 5 8 Matej Beňuš 97.23 0 17 102.61 0 3 100.02 0 5 6 16 Kacper Sztuba 94.11 0 2 107.17 0 12 100.97 0 6 7 4 Luka Božič 94.32 0 4 102.76 0 5 101.60 2 7 8 24 Lennard Tuchscherer 94.59 0 6 101.94 0 2 103.17 0 8 9 3 Benjamin Savšek 94.54 0 5 106.78 2 11 104.47 4 9 10 19 Michal Martikán 99.35 2 30 103.04 0 6 105.55 4 10 11 32 Oier Díaz 96.96 0 15 103.41 2 7 106.32 2 11 12 15 Marko Mirgorodský 99.10 2 27 102.66 2 4 106.42 0 12 13 2 Yohann Senechault 96.58 2 12 107.44 6 13 did not advance 14 10 Adam Burgess 96.08 2 11 107.60 2 14 15 12 Paolo Ceccon 98.65 2 21 107.64 2 15 16 39 Aleksandr Kharlamtsev 99.07 2 26 107.86 0 16 17 23 Thomas Koechlin 94.63 0 7 108.21 0 17 18 17 Martino Barzon 97.06 2 16 108.44 4 18 19 11 Jiří Prskavec 97.26 2 18 110.17 0 19 20 41 Benjamin Ross 99.00 2 24 110.89 0 20 21 35 Marc Vicente 99.27 2 29 111.89 4 21 22 26 Luc Royle 97.39 0 19 113.34 2 22 23 43 Zhang Zhicheng 98.81 2 23 114.72 2 23 24 18 Adam Král 93.56 0 1 116.07 8 24 25 47 Charles Corrêa 99.06 2 25 116.86 6 25 26 60 Egor Smirnov 96.60 0 13 130.75 4 26 27 14 Tristan Carter 95.20 2 9 148.90 50 27 28 30 Robert Hendrick 97.48 2 20 157.80 50 28 29 46 Anvar Klevleev 99.23 2 28 157.88 54 29 30 20 Vojtěch Heger 98.71 2 22 160.63 56 30 31 42 Michał Wiercioch 99.63 2 31 did not advance 32 28 Dmitrii Khramtsov 99.64 0 32 33 25 Liam Jegou 99.68 0 33 34 7 Mewen Debliquy 99.92 2 34 35 27 Alex Baldoni 100.13 0 35 36 40 Zachary Lokken 100.15 2 36 37 45 Kauã da Silva 100.16 0 37 38 33 Casey Eichfeld 100.17 2 38 39 37 Joris Otten 100.70 0 39 40 31 Oliver Puchner 101.15 2 40 41 29 Jake Cochrane 101.16 2 41 42 36 Szymon Nowobilski 101.56 6 42 43 48 James Senior 101.77 4 43 44 22 Matija Marinić 101.87 2 44 45 51 Finn Anderson 102.72 0 45 46 49 Takuya Haneda 103.67 4 46 47 34 Manuel Trípano 104.48 6 47 48 57 Wabu Youzhuacier 105.43 0 48 49 53 Wu Jung-cheng 106.53 2 49 50 50 Shota Saito 107.21 2 50 51 55 Ryker Harris 107.31 0 51 52 52 Daniel Parry 107.74 4 52 53 44 Zhang Peng 108.22 6 53 54 13 Flavio Micozzi 108.37 2 54 55 54 Leonardo Curcel 112.72 0 55 56 61 Mārtiņš Plaudis 120.84 6 56 57 59 Ricardo Fentanes 126.29 2 57 58 6 Žiga Lin Hočevar 146.59 52 58 59 38 Niels Zimmermann 148.99 52 59 60 58 Mustafa Parlak 163.66 54 60 61 56 Ng Wee Meng 380.66 160 61 62 Samuel Muchiri Did not start

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