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Women’s K1 200m

21 August - Heats
22 August - Semifinals
23 August - Finals

  • Defending champion Lisa Carrington (NZL) is on three world titles in women’s K1 200m and needs one more victory to join Caroline Brunet (CAN) in first place on the all-time gold medal list.
  • Reigning Olympic champion Carrington has claimed the world title in women’s K1 200m the last three editions (2011, 2013, 2014).
  • The 26-year-old can become the first athlete to win gold in this event in four successive world championships. Hungary’s Natasa Janics (2007, 2009, 2010) and Canada’s Caroline Brunet (1997, 1998, 1999) previously won the women’s K1 200m world title three editions in a row.
  • Carrington has collected three medals in this event at the world championships (G3-S0-B0) and needs one more podium finish to become the joint-second most decorated athlete in this event. Poland’s Marta Walczykiewicz (4, G0-S4-B0) and Brunet (7, G4-S2-B1) are currently in second and first place respectively. 
  • Carrington has won nine of the last 11 World Cup races in this event, including the one in Milan in May 2014.
  • Norma Murabito (ITA) can become the first athlete to win a world championships medal in women’s K1 200m in front of a home crowd since Hungary’s Timea Paksy took gold in Szeged in 2006.
  • Walczykiewicz, who took silver in this event at the last three world championships, is hoping to hand Poland their first ever world title in women’s K1 200m.
  • Hungary have won a record 11 medals in women’s K1 200m at the world championships, including a record six golds. Canada are next with 10 podium finishes and five world titles.

Women’s K1 500m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals

  • Hungarian women have won this event the last two World championships as Danusia Kozák (HUN) won in 2013 and 2014. Anna Kárász (HUN) will compete for Hungary in Milan and can become the fifth Hungarian to win the world title in this event.
  • Kárász (23) won gold in women’s K1 500m at the 2014 World Junior & Under 23 Championships in Szeged, Hungary.
  • The last women who was younger than 24 years and won the world title in this event was Nicole Reinhardt (GER), who was 19 years 238 days in 2005.
  • Lisa Carrington (NZL) can give New Zealand their first gold medal in this event. She finished second in 2014 after claiming bronze in 2013.
  • Only Josefa Idem (FRG, ITA) has won a different colour medal in this event at three consecutive world championships (silver in 1999, gold in 2001, bronze in 2002) 
  • Carrington has won all three World Cup races in this event this year after winning one in 2014, which was in Milan.
  • So far 10 different nations have won gold in this event, including East Germany, West Germany and Soviet Union.
  • Hungary have won the world title in women’s K1 500m in five of the last seven editions.
  • The only non-European to win this event at the world championships is Canada’s Caroline Brunet (CAN), who was victorious in three successive world championships between 1997 and 1999.
  • Ewelina Wojnarowska (POL) can give Poland their first gold medal in this event after Izabella Dylewska-Swiatowiak (POL) claimed silver in 1987 and 1989 and Aneta Pastuszka (POL) bronze in 2003.

Women’s K1 1000m

21 August - Heats / Semifinals
23 August - Finals

  • Erika Medveczky (HUN) won the world title in women’s K1 1000m in 2013 and can become the fourth multi gold medallist in this event in history of the world championships after Caroline Brunet (CAN, 2 golds), Josefa Idem (ITA, 2) and Katalin Kovács (HUN, 4).
  • Hungary have won a record 11 medals in women’s K1 1000m at the world championships, including a record seven golds. Germany are next best with nine podium finishes (2 golds).
  • In 2014, Teneale Hatton (NZL) became only the second non-European world champion in this event and the first since 1999, when Canada’s Caroline Brunet took gold in Milan. Hatton will not compete in this year’s edition.
  • Last year, Hatton claimed the world title in women’s K1 1000m in a championship record time of 3:49.423 by only 0.05s from 2011 world champion Tamara Csipes (HUN).
  • Latvia’s Daniela Kondratova (17) and Croatia’s Brigita Bakić (18) are hoping to become the first ever teenagers to reach the podium in women’s K1 1000m at the world championships. The youngest medallist in this event to date is Germany’s Franziska Weber, who was 20 years and 83 days old when she grabbed silver in 2009.
  • Irene Burgo (ITA) can become the fourth athlete to claim the world title in women’s K1 1000m in front of a home crowd after Tamara Csipes (HUN) in 2011, Dalma Ruzicic-Benedek (HUN) in 2006 and Caroline Brunet (CAN) in 1997.
  • 36-year-old Margaret Hogan (USA) can become the second oldest medallist in women’s K1 1000m in history of the world championships after Josefa Idem (ITA) who was 37 when she collected silver in this event in 2002.

Women’s K1 5000m

23 August - Finals

  • Maryna Litvinchuk (BLR) is on three medals in this event at the world championships (G0-S2-B1) and can become the first to win a record fourth medal in women’s K1 5000m.
  • Litvinchuk can complete the medal set in this event by winning gold. She has already claimed silver (2014, 2010) and bronze (2010).
  • Litvinchuk won gold in this event at the 2015 European Games and European championships.
  • Only Hungary (5) has won more medals in this event than Belarus (3).
  • Erika Medvecky (HUN) won gold at the 2014 European championship, but only finished ninth in at the 2015 European championships.
  • Lani Belcher (GBR) took silver in K1 5000 at the 2011 World Championships. She can follow in the footsteps of Louisa Sawers (GBR) as British winner of this event.
  • Belcher finished second at the 2015 European Games and at the World Cup in Copenhagen in 2015. She won the race in Duisburg in May 2015.
  • Katrin Borchert (AUS) is the only multi gold medallist in this event at the world championships. She claimed the world title in 1989 representing GDR and in 1990 competing for West Germany.

Women’s K2 200m

21 August - Heats
22 August - Semifinals
23 August - Finals

  • Hungarian duos have won this event eight of the 16 times at the world championships, including the last world championships with Ninetta Vad (HUN) and Anna Karasz (HUN).
  • Hungarian duos have won seven of the last nine world titles in this event, with Katalin Kovács (HUN) being part of the winning team on a record five occasions. She teamed-up with Natasa Janics (HUN) four times and with Dunasia Kozák (HUN) once.
  • Hungary have won a record 11 medals in this event at the world championships. Poland are next, with 10. Poland have yet to win a gold medal as they claimed silver seven times and bronze three times.
  • Dominika Wlodarczyk (POL) and Joanna Bruska (POL) hope to give Poland their first ever world title in this event.
  • Germany are the only nation with a medal in this event in each of the last two world championships as Franziska Weber (GER) and Tina Dietze (GER) won gold in 2013 and silver in 2014.
  • Only three of the 48 world championship medals in this event have been won by non-European duos.
  • In 1998, Canada’s Corinna Kennedy and Marie Josée Gibeau-Ouimet became the last non-European champions in women’s KC 200m.
  • Slovakia’s Ivana Kmetova and Martina Kohlova claimed gold in this event at the 2008 European Championships in Milan.

Women’s K2 500m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals

  • A Hungarian duo has won this event in eight of the last 11 world championships, after claiming gold in only three of the first 29 stagings of the competition.
  • Hungary (G11-S11-B5) have won the most medals in the women’s K2 500m at the world championships, but East Germany hold the record for most gold medals (13).
  • Germany (5) are the only other country to win more than two world championship gold medals in this event.
  • Only three of the 120 world championship medals in this event have been won by non-European duos. Australia’s Anna Wood (AUS) and Katrin Borchert (AUS) won gold in 1998 and silver in 1997, and Canada’s Caroline Brunet (CAN) and Karen Furneaux (CAN) won silver in 1999 (in Milan).
  • Birgit Fischer (GDR, GER) holds the record for most world championship gold medals in this event (6) and most overall medals (G6-S1-B1). No other woman has won more than five world championship medals in the K2 500m.
  • Poland have won the bronze medal in this event at each of the last three world championships. Beata Mikolajczyk (POL) was partnered by Aneta Konieczna (POL) in 2011, and Karolina Naja (POL) in 2013 and 2014.
  • Mikolajczyk and Naja won the bronze medal in this event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The duo are the reigning European champions after winning gold in Racice, Czech Republic, in May.
  • In 2014 the winners of this event in the European championships also went on to win gold at that year’s world championships (Hungary’s Gabriella Szabo and Tamara Csipes).
  • Sisters Nikolina (SRB) and Olivera Moldovan (SRB) won Serbia’s first world championships medal in this event when they claimed silver in 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
  • Serbia won the gold medal in this event at the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, in June (Dalma Ruzicic-Benedek and Milica Starovic).

Women’s K2 1000m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals

  • Of the 14 times this event has taken place at the world championships, 10 have been won by either Hungary (6) or Germany (4).
  • Germany (G4-S8) have won the most medals in the women’s K2 1000m at the world championships, but Hungary hold the record for most gold medals (6).
  • Only three other countries have won a gold medal in this event at the world championships: Australia (2), Poland (1) and Denmark (1).
  • Hungary have won a medal in this event at each of the last 10 world championships, and in 11 of the 14 overall. Their duo finished fourth in 1997 and 1998, and seventh in 2001.
  • Australia’s Katrin Borchert (G2-S2) and German pair Manuela Mucke (G1-S3) and Nadine Opgen-Rhein (G1-S3) share the record for most world championship medals in this event.
  • Borchert, Anna Wood (AUS) and Hungarian trio Gabriella Szabo, Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Janics are the only women to win more than one K2 1000m world championships gold medal (all 2).
  • Denmark’s Emma Jorgensen and Henriette Engel Hansen won the gold medal in this event at the 2014 World Championships in Moscow, Russia. It was only the second Danish female world championships gold medal after Bodil Svendsen and Karen Hoff won the K2 500m in 1948 in London, England.
  • In 2014, Jorgensen (18 years and 8 days) also became the youngest winner of a medal in this event at a world championships.
  • The bronze of Irina Lauric and Sorina Bianca Plesca in 2013 is Romania’s only world championships medal in the women’s K2 1000m.
  • On the previous occasion the world championships were held in Milan in 1999, the gold medal in this event was won by Australia’s Katrin Borchert and Anna Wood. Germany’s Katrin Wagner-Augustin and Manuela Mucke won silver and Hungary’s Kinga Bota and Andrea Barocsi bronze.

Women’s K4 500m

21 Auggust - Heats
22 August - Semifinals
23 August - Finals

  • Hungarian women have won 10 of the last 12 world titles in women’s K4 500m, including the last five. In total, East Germany and Hungary have won this title most often, both 11 times.
  • The last nation to win this world title at least six editions in a row is Germany, when they won six suc cessive world championship gold medals after the reunification (1991-1998).
  • Last year, Germany failed to win a medal in this event for only the second time since the reunification. In 2003, they finished fifth and in 2014, fourth.
  • The only other edition in which Germany, East Germany or West Germany failed to win a medal in this event was in 1986.
  • Birgit Fisher (GER) is all-time record holder with 11 gold medals in this event. She is followed by Hungary’s Katalin Kovács (8). That is also the record for most gold medals for any person in any event at the world championships.
  • Danusia Kozák (HUN) and Gabriella Szabo (HUN) were part of the winning team in each of the last three world championships. Kozák also was part of the team in 2009.
  • Both women are participating and can win for the fourth time in a row, becoming the first women since Erzsébet Viski (HUN), Katalin Kovács (HUN) and Szilvia Szabó (HUN) to achieve this feat. These three women were all part of the Hungarian team that won four world titles in a row between 1999 and 2003.
  • Poland are looking to win this event for the first time at the world championships. They finished second last year and also second at two World Cup events this season (Duisburg and Montemor-o-Velho).
  • Poland can become the sixth nation to win gold in this event at the world championships after Hungary (11), East Germany (11), Germany (8), Soviet Union (5) and Bulgaria (1).
  • Only Romania have won more medals in this event without ever winning gold. Romania are on seven medals (all bronze), Poland have won six (3 silver and 3 bronze).
  • Belarus can also become the sixth nation to win gold in this event. They won in Duisburg this season and finished third at the 2014 World Championships behind Hungary and Poland.