The men'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 10:44 Heats 23 July 2026 11:11 Semifinal 14:45 Final

Results

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

RankBibCanoeistNationHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank 4 Jakub Krejčí 80.02 0 1 84.80 0 2 83.65 0 1 26 Michał Pasiut 83.76 2 26 85.38 0 3 84.34 0 2 3 Giovanni De Gennaro 81.57 0 9 86.78 2 5 85.27 0 3 4 19 Sam Leaver 81.24 0 7 88.64 2 11 86.25 2 4 5 13 Martin Dougoud 82.12 0 10 86.67 2 4 87.37 0 5 6 16 Miquel Travé 83.32 0 20 86.96 2 6 87.45 2 6 7 17 Mario Leitner 82.54 0 13 87.83 0 8 87.66 0 7 8 23 Gabriel De Coster 83.52 0 22 87.88 2 9 88.22 0 8 9 34 Dariusz Popiela 82.65 0 14 88.54 0 10 89.69 0 9 10 18 Pau Echaniz 83.80 2 27 87.36 0 7 90.02 0 10 11 11 Joseph Clarke 82.93 0 17 84.78 0 1 136.27 52 11 12 14 Timothy Anderson 81.51 0 8 88.86 2 12 136.37 50 12 13 8 Lucien Delfour 83.12 0 18 89.35 0 13 did not advance 14 5 Jiří Prskavec 82.14 0 11 89.45 0 14 15 20 Lan Tominc 82.33 0 12 90.74 2 15 16 39 Pavel Eigel 83.58 0 24 91.52 0 16 17 47 Kazuya Adachi 83.32 0 20 95.18 2 17 18 31 Stefan Hengst 83.68 2 25 96.40 0 18 19 41 Christian Stanzel 83.57 0 23 102.14 6 19 20 30 Quan Xin 84.35 0 28 103.96 4 20 21 21 Martin Cornu 83.26 0 19 104.13 2 21 22 28 Vít Přindiš 80.93 2 5 106.55 4 22 23 10 Noah Hegge 80.16 0 2 135.64 50 23 24 15 Felix Oschmautz 84.47 0 29 137.67 50 24 25 25 Benjamin Pope 84.59 0 30 138.19 50 25 26 7 Xabier Ferrazzi 80.27 0 3 139.36 52 26 27 6 Mateusz Polaczyk 80.49 0 4 139.62 54 27 28 9 Peter Kauzer 82.67 0 15 152.34 52 28 29 24 Ben Haylett 80.98 0 6 158.98 52 29 30 1 Titouan Castryck 82.79 2 16 189.94 102 30 31 2 Anatole Delassus 84.73 0 31 did not advance 32 46 Frederico Alvarenga 84.81 0 32 33 27 David Llorente 85.07 2 33 34 29 Gelindo Chiarello 85.15 0 34 35 53 Dávid Skubík 85.30 0 35 36 12 Finn Butcher 85.32 0 36 37 37 Pedro Gonçalves 85.33 4 37 38 44 Michal Smolen 85.39 2 38 39 43 Mathis Soudi 85.46 0 39 40 38 Ivan Kozlov 85.84 0 40 41 42 Thomas Ukalovic 86.04 0 41 42 58 Tyler Westfall 86.35 2 42 43 36 Yusuke Muto 86.53 4 43 44 33 Martin Halčin 86.57 2 44 45 50 Reilly Vernon 86.59 0 45 46 52 Alex Baldoni 87.10 2 46 47 57 Hu Zhaoshan 87.36 2 47 48 32 Jan Rohrer 88.14 2 48 49 45 Kaelin Friedenson 88.34 2 49 49 75 Ben Brown 88.34 2 49 51 55 Serhii Sovko 88.89 0 51 52 48 Noel Hendrick 88.92 2 52 53 35 Egor Smirnov 89.04 6 53 54 54 Manuel Trípano 89.30 2 54 54 59 George Snook 89.30 2 54 56 49 Lucas Jacob 89.48 2 56 57 51 Max Steinbrenner 90.12 2 57 58 68 Chu Hung-yu 90.48 0 58 59 62 Liao Li-hong 90.80 0 59 60 67 Alexandr Korobov 91.13 2 60 61 65 Michal Smiesko 91.41 2 61 62 61 Teppei Saito 92.29 2 62 63 69 Weng Jize 93.14 4 63 64 63 Maël Rivard 94.54 2 64 65 64 Jesús Martínez 95.69 4 65 66 56 João Cunha 96.34 4 66 67 60 Andraz Echeverría Olguín 96.74 6 67 68 76 Matthew van Heerden 103.12 2 68 69 72 Geral Soto 106.67 6 69 70 77 Baek Seo-jin 113.26 10 70 71 71 Raage Magan 115.56 8 71 72 78 Arno Reblin 117.90 0 72 73 70 Pradhyumna Singh Rathod 120.01 4 73 74 73 Juan Antonio Carrasco Cadillo 123.57 2 74 75 40 Adam Gonšenica 136.40 52 75 76 22 Martin Srabotnik 136.91 50 76 77 80 Dimitrios Zachos 146.71 50 77 78 79 Youssouf Wally Ndiaye 171.19 8 78 79 74 Eren Yalkin 184.88 100 79 80 66 Mārtiņš Plaudis 192.94 102 80

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