The women's kayak event at the 2026 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 July 2026 at the RIVERSPORT OKC in Oklahoma City, with the qualification heats on 21 July 2026.

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 (5-7-11-14-17-20). The semifinal and final course also had 22 gates with 6 upstream gates (5-7-11-14-17-22).

Schedule

All times listed are UTC–5.

Date Time Round 21 July 2026 09:06 Heats 23 July 2026 10:06 Semifinal 14:06 Final

Results

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

RankBibCanoeistNationHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank 2 Jessica Fox 92.95 4 9 98.19 2 7 92.06 0 1 6 Evy Leibfarth 91.85 2 6 96.39 2 2 93.37 0 2 3 Kimberley Woods 94.41 0 19 98.87 0 10 94.91 2 3 4 19 Alena Marx 93.37 4 14 97.70 0 4 95.67 0 4 5 1 Ricarda Funk 89.38 0 1 98.56 2 9 95.69 0 5 6 13 Zuzana Paňková 93.37 0 14 99.63 2 11 96.30 0 6 7 8 Maialen Chourraut 92.34 2 7 98.13 0 6 97.05 0 7 8 23 Amálie Hilgertová 95.62 0 26 97.97 0 5 97.14 0 8 9 34 Marjorie Delassus 93.92 2 17 98.30 2 8 97.87 0 9 10 4 Klaudia Zwolińska 89.38 0 1 97.10 0 3 97.94 0 10 11 33 Li Shiting 93.36 0 13 96.35 0 1 98.20 2 11 12 5 Camille Prigent 90.17 0 4 100.12 2 12 192.01 100 12 13 9 Emma Vuitton 94.71 2 21 100.71 4 13 did not advance 14 17 Laia Sorribes 96.62 2 28 100.73 2 14 15 15 Mònica Dòria 91.02 0 5 101.13 2 15 16 16 Soňa Stanovská 90.10 0 3 101.25 2 16 17 25 Kateřina Beková 92.91 0 8 101.55 2 17 18 21 Ria Sribar 94.74 0 22 104.03 4 18 19 12 Noemie Fox 95.59 2 25 104.53 4 19 20 35 Kseniia Krylova 93.86 0 16 105.12 2 20 21 30 Aki Yazawa 94.42 0 20 106.05 2 21 22 31 Bethan Forrow 95.69 2 27 106.09 6 22 23 36 Hanna Danek 95.52 0 24 106.42 2 23 24 46 Chang Chu-han 95.44 0 23 123.92 10 24 25 7 Eva Alina Hočevar 96.81 0 29 147.69 50 25 26 18 Emily Apel 96.86 2 30 148.87 54 26 27 24 Eliška Mintálová 94.35 4 18 151.38 52 27 28 11 Kate Eckhardt 93.07 0 11 157.24 52 28 29 14 Lena Teunissen 93.11 2 12 168.70 56 29 30 20 Ana Sátila 93.00 0 10 DSQ 31 37 Alsu Minazova 97.05 0 31 did not advance 32 60 Martina Wegman 97.24 2 32 33 29 Annkatrin Plochmann 97.25 0 33 34 27 Dominika Brzeska 97.63 0 34 35 22 Viktoriia Us 98.30 0 35 36 41 Chen Lin 98.43 0 36 37 47 Mariia Sokolova 98.54 2 37 38 42 Lois Betteridge 98.91 2 38 39 40 Georgina Cochrane 99.48 2 39 40 28 Lea Novak 99.49 2 40 41 48 Kurumi Ito 99.78 4 41 42 45 Courtney Williams 100.44 0 42 43 44 Léa Baldoni 101.31 4 43 44 39 Bára Galušková 103.04 6 44 45 38 Marcella Altman 103.87 6 45 46 26 Leire Goñi 104.92 2 46 47 50 Mine Onozawa 105.16 2 47 48 43 Wu Ting-i 105.63 4 48 49 49 Yekaterina Tarantseva 108.02 2 49 50 51 Rosie Rex 110.08 0 50 51 55 Anastassiya Ananyeva 110.40 0 51 52 53 Xu Linxi 110.95 4 52 53 52 Sofía Reinoso 113.39 0 53 54 57 Ana Paula Fernandes Castro 120.02 2 54 55 54 Florencia Aguirre González 126.98 6 55 56 61 Cleo Pitcher Farrell 137.37 0 56 57 56 Waris Mills 139.32 2 57 58 10 Lois Leaver 143.44 50 58 59 32 Omira Estácia Neta 145.61 50 59 60 58 Eliza Tare 154.46 6 60 61 59 Alua Mauletkan 159.89 10 61 62 62 Sára Szijjártó-Szabó 200.75 64 62

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