The men's kayak event at the 2025 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 3 October 2025 at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium in Penrith, with the qualification heats on 1 October 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

All times listed are UTC+10.

Date Time Round 1 October 2025 10:40 Heats 3 October 2025 11:38 Semifinal 15:17 Final

Results

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

RankBibCanoeistNationHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank 1 1 Titouan Castryck 88.89 0 12 91.51 0 1 90.81 0 1 2 8 Jakub Krejčí 86.94 0 1 92.83 2 3 92.27 0 2 3 4 Jiří Prskavec 89.78 0 20 95.44 0 9 92.34 0 3 4 15 Finn Butcher 91.21 2 28 96.21 2 12 92.47 0 4 5 7 Lucien Delfour 88.05 0 3 93.74 0 4 92.96 2 5 6 5 Peter Kauzer 88.18 0 6 94.73 2 7 93.26 0 6 7 2 Anatole Delassus 88.29 0 9 95.85 2 10 93.34 0 7 8 22 Gabriel De Coster 88.15 0 5 94.63 2 5 94.25 0 8 9 24 Mario Leitner 90.14 0 23 96.20 0 11 94.37 0 9 10 13 Timothy Anderson 88.43 0 11 94.71 2 6 94.46 0 10 11 64 Egor Smirnov 89.28 0 15 91.67 0 2 95.06 2 11 12 3 Giovanni De Gennaro 89.89 0 21 94.98 0 8 95.87 2 12 13 6 Mateusz Polaczyk 90.40 4 24 96.25 2 13 did not advance 14 14 Xabier Ferrazzi 88.24 0 8 96.27 2 14 15 25 Martin Halčin 90.72 0 27 96.49 0 15 16 17 Miquel Travé 88.29 0 9 96.56 2 16 17 30 Stefan Hengst 90.07 2 22 97.47 4 17 18 32 Jonny Dickson 88.11 0 4 97.67 2 18 19 31 Mathieu Desnos 89.62 0 18 97.78 2 19 20 16 Pau Echaniz 89.77 0 19 99.18 2 20 21 11 Martin Dougoud 87.40 0 2 100.09 2 21 22 45 Noel Hendrick 91.62 0 30 100.92 0 22 23 70 Kazuya Adachi 88.20 0 7 101.49 6 23 24 65 Ivan Kozlov 89.08 2 13 103.03 6 24 25 28 Jan Rohrer 89.42 0 16 103.85 2 25 26 38 Yusuke Muto 91.23 2 29 104.72 6 26 27 34 Benjamin Pope 89.14 0 14 145.46 52 27 28 27 Jakub Grigar 90.54 0 25 147.25 52 28 29 40 Yuuki Tanaka 89.44 0 17 148.51 54 29 30 23 Marcello Beda 90.54 0 25 151.81 52 30 31 35 Jakub Brzeziński 91.81 0 31 did not advance 32 36 Maxime Aubertin 91.81 2 31 33 9 Joseph Clarke 91.89 2 33 34 41 Adam Gonšenica 92.14 0 34 35 10 Žiga Lin Hočevar 92.23 2 35 36 18 Benjamin Renia 92.41 2 36 37 33 Jan Bárta 92.83 2 37 38 74 Lyu Luhui 92.91 2 38 39 71 George Snook 93.10 0 39 40 19 Gelindo Chiariello 93.79 2 40 41 58 Huang Liman 93.97 0 41 42 57 Pavel Eigel 94.06 2 42 43 49 Reilly Vernon 94.16 2 43 44 43 Lucas Jacob 94.55 0 44 45 73 Zhang Jiahao 94.59 0 45 46 60 Wu Shao-hsuan 94.66 2 46 47 44 Frederico Alvarenga 94.83 0 47 48 54 João Cunha 95.38 2 48 49 51 Thomas Ukalovic 95.67 0 49 50 59 Alistair McCreery 96.15 2 50 51 37 Pedro Gonçalves 96.30 4 51 52 47 Artem Ivchenko 96.46 2 52 53 53 Manuel Trípano 96.72 0 53 54 48 Moritz Kremslehner 98.50 2 54 55 52 Serhii Sovko 98.51 2 55 56 46 Alex Baldoni 98.71 4 56 57 39 Angel Petrushev 99.59 4 57 58 66 Mark Zielonka 99.69 0 58 59 61 Kyler James Long 100.01 4 59 60 68 Liao Li-hong 104.71 4 60 61 72 Antonio Reinoso 108.15 2 61 62 63 Andraz Echeverría Olguín 111.61 4 62 63 62 Trevor Boyd 112.79 4 63 64 67 Mārtiņš Plaudis 122.74 6 64 65 20 Martin Srabotnik 138.50 50 65 66 29 Dariusz Popiela 138.77 50 66 67 21 Ben Haylett 139.96 50 67 68 12 Noah Hegge 140.09 50 68 69 26 David Llorente 140.32 52 69 70 55 Guilherme Mapelli 142.35 50 70 71 42 Kaelin Friedenson 144.17 52 71 72 56 Nicholas Collier 147.00 52 72 73 50 Tyler Westfall 147.46 54 73 74 69 Nikita Gubenko 148.33 54 74 75 Samuel Muchiri Did not start

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