The men's KL1 competition at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań took place at Lake Malta.Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Bulletin 1
Schedule The schedule is as follows: Date Time Round Wednesday 26 August 2026 10:35 Heats Thursday 27 August 2026 11:31 Semifinals Saturday 29 August 2026 10:39 Final B 10:50 Final A
Record
The best performance previously in this discipline was:
+ Men's KL1 200 metres World Best 44.55 Paris
Heats
Men's KL1 200 m - Heats - Results
Qualification rule : Winner of each heat direct to A final; remainder to semi final
Heat 1 Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 5 Péter Pál Kiss 51.11 - FA 2 4 Alex Santos 59.48 +8.37 SF 3 6 Jianrong Zhu 1:00.20 +9.09 SF 4 2 Yash Kumar 1:05.17 +14.06 SF 5 7 Yassin Awad 1:11.11 +20.00 SF 6 3 Thomas Price 1:11.82 +20.71 SF 7 8 Eiichi Yamashita 1:18.01 +26.90 SF
Heat 2 Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 Robert Suba 52.08 - FA 2 5 Luis Cardoso da Silva 53.11 +1.03 SF 3 7 Xiaowei Yu 58.08 +6.00 SF 4 6 Maxim Bogatyrev 1:00.58 +8.50 SF 5 2 Adrian Castano 1:04.89 +12.81 SF 6 3 Anatolii Zhumik 1:58.84 +1:06.76 SF
Heat 3 Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 Remy Boulle 51.37 - FA 2 5 Aleksandr Ilichev Neutral Athlete B 52.73 +1.36 SF 3 7 Dennis Braun 1:00.23 +8.86 SF 4 2 Benjamin Sainsbury 1:01.75 +10.38 SF 5 6 Worrawut Samart 1:05.10 +13.73 SF 6 3 Yuta Takagi 1:07.81 +16.44 SF
Semi finals
Two semi finals were held: the results of the semi finals were as follows:Men's KL1 200 m - Semifinals - Results
Qualification rule : top three in each heat proceed to A final; next four in each heat plus next best on time to B final
Semifinal 1 Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 Aleksandr Ilichev Neutral Athlete B 53.74 FA 2 5 Luis Cardoso da Silva 55.39 +1.65 FA 3 6 Jianrong Zhu 1:00.19 +6.45 FA 4 3 Maxim Bogatyrev 1:02.24 +8.50 FB 5 2 Worrawut Samart 1:08.22 +14.48 FB 6 7 Yassin Awad 1:10.28 +16.54 FB 7 1 Eiichi Yamashita 1:30.86 +37.12 FB 8 8 Anatolii Zhumik 2:06.73 +1:12.99
Semifinal 2 Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 4 Xiaowei Yu 57.58 FA 2 5 Alex Santos 1:00.41 +2.83 FA 3 3 Benjamin Sainsbury 1:01.64 +4.06 FA 4 2 Adrian Castano 1:01.78 +4.20 FB 5 6 Dennis Braun 1:03.82 +6.24 FB 6 7 Yash Kumar 1:07.52 +9.94 FB 7 8 Yuta Takagi 1:10.01 +12.43 FB 8 1 Thomas Price 1:13.73 +16.15 qBT Finals
The results of the finals were as follows: Men's KL1 200 m - Finals - Results
B final Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap Notes 1 3 Dennis Braun 54.87 2 5 Adrian Castano 55.74 +0.87 3 4 Maxim Bogatyrev 55.90 +1.03 4 6 Worrawut Samart 57.39 +2.52 5 2 Yassin Awad 1:00.18 +5.31 6 1 Yuta Takagi 1:01.18 +6.31 7 7 Yash Kumar 1:02.86 +7.99 8 9 Thomas Price 1:06.91 +12.04 9 8 Eiichi Yamashita 1:10.70 +15.83
A final Rank Bib Name Nation Time Gap 5 Péter Pál Kiss 46.35 2 Luis Cardoso da Silva 47.25 +0.90 7 Aleksandr Ilichev Neutral Athlete A 48.39 +2.04 4 6 Remy Boulle 48.48 +2.13 5 4 Robert Suba 48.55 +2.20 6 9 Jianrong Zhu 53.44 +7.09 7 8 Alex Santos 53.50 +7.15 8 3 Yu Xiaowei 53.85 +7.50 9 1 Benjamin Sainsbury 58.41 +12.06
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