2026 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Women's K-4 500 metres

The women's K-4 500 metres 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:Paddle Worldwide 2026 World Canoe and Paracanaoe Sprint Championships - Schedule Date Time Round Wdnesday 26 August 2026 9:55 Heats Thursday 27 August 2026 14:36 Semifinals Friday 28 August 2026 14:34 Final B 15:04 Final A

Record

The best performance previously in this discipline was:

+ Women's K-4 500 metres World Best 1:28.21SZABO, KOZAK, KARASZ, VAD Moscow

Heats

Three heats were held. The results of the heats were as follows :Women's K-4 500 m - Heats - Results

Qualification rule : First in each heat direct to A final; next six in each heat qualify for semi-finals; remainder are eliminated. Heat 1 9:55 RankLaneNationAthletesTimeGapNotes 1 5 Paulina PaszekFinja HermanussenPauline JagschNele Reinwardt 1:38.14 2 6 Sandra OstrowskaDominika PuttoJulia OlszewskaKatarzyna Kosciolek 1:38.75 0.61 3 3 Maria VirikAnna Margrete SletsjoeeVilma FjeldheimKristine Strand Amundsen 1:39.77 1.63 4 4 Sara Corfixsen MilthersFrederikke Hauge MoerckeKatrine Hladka JensenBolette Nyvang Iversen 1:40.44 2.3 5 1 Sara DaldossAnastasia InsabellaMeshua MarigoSara Vesentini 1:40.67 2.53 6 2 Mariya PovkhVarvara SemykinaIvanna DyachenkoHanna Pavlova 1:41.59 3.45 7 7 Brenda RojasMaria Magdalena GarroPaulina Amneris Barreiro HusLucia Dalto Aziz 1:41.83 3.69 8 8 Olga ShmelyovaTatyana TokarnitskayaStella SukhanovaEvelina Kostenko 1:42.94 4.8

Heat 2 10:01 RankLaneNationAthletesTimeGapNotes 1 5 Shimeng YuMengdie YinNan WangSiyu Shen 1:38.68 2 2 Neutral Athletes B Alina SvitaUladzislava SkryhanavaIna SauchukNadzeya Kushner 1:39.64 0.96 3 7 Reka KiskoAngelina Judit SzegediDorina DecsiAnna Meszaros 1:41.71 3.03 4 3 Moa WikbergJulia LagerstamMelina AnderssonElla Richter 1:41.71 3.03 5 4 Kailey HarlenNatalia DrobotClaudia BaileyAlyssa Bailey 1:41.73 3.05 6 6 Reka BugarSofia BergendiHana GavorovaBianka Sidova 1:42.12 3.44 7 8 Olivia BrettJacqueline KennedyGreer MorleyLucy Matehaere 1:42.80 4.12 8 1 Francisca LopesClara DuarteAna RodriguesMaria Rego Gomes 1:45.89 7.21

Heat 3 10:06 RankLaneNationAthletesTimeGapNotes 1 5 Sara OuzandeLucia ValDaniela Garcia HerediaBarbara Pardo 1:39.33 2 4 Emily LewisZoe ClarkDeborah KerrKristina Armstrong 1:40.48 1.15 3 3 Karina Alanis MoralesAna Ximena HernandezBeatriz Briones FragozaMaricela Montemayor Rodriguez 1:40.94 1.61 4 6 Salya LefoulonManon HostensVanina PaolettiPauline Freslon 1:41.83 2.5 5 8 Milana Dushev-JanicEkaterina ShubinaArina TanatmishevaShakhrizoda Mavlonova 1:42.73 3.4 6 2 Anezka PaloudovaZuzana HanusovaStepanka SobiskovaEliska Betlachova 1:43.06 3.73 7 7 Callie LochMichelle RussellRiley MelansonToshka Besharah 1:43.87 4.54

Semi finals

Two semifinals were held, the results are as follows: Women's K-4 500 m - Semifinals - Results

Qualification rule : First three in each heat to A final: Next four in each heat to B final.

Semifinal 1 14:36 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 2 Kailey HarlenNatalia DrobotClaudia BaileyAlyssa Bailey 1:43.58 FA 2 5 Sandra OstrowskaDominika PuttoJulia OlszewskaKatarzyna Kosciolek 1:43.82 0.24 FA 3 7 Sara Corfixsen MilthersFrederikke Hauge MoerckeKatrine Hladka JensenBolette Nyvang Iversen 1:44.05 0.47 FA 4 4 Reka KiskoAngelina Judit SzegediDorina DecsiAnna Meszaros 1:44.36 0.78 FB 5 3 Salya LefoulonManon HostensVanina PaolettiPauline Freslon 1:45.17 1.59 FB 6 6 Karina Alanis MoralesAna Ximena HernandezBeatriz Briones FragozaMaricela Montemayor Rodriguez 1:45.30 1.72 FB 7 8 Anezka PaloudovaZuzana HanusovaStepanka SobiskovaEliska Betlachova 1:45.74 2.16 FB 8 9 Olivia BrettJacqueline KennedyGreer MorleyLucy Matehaere 1:46.09 2.51 qBT 9 1 Mariya PovkhVarvara SemykinaIvanna DyachenkoHanna Pavlova 1:49.03 5.45

Semifinal 2 14:42 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap Notes 1 5 Neutral Athletes B Alina SvitaUladzislava SkryhanavaIna SauchukNadzeya Kushner 1:42.95 FA 2 8 Reka BugarSofia BergendiHana GavorovaBianka Sidova 1:43.69 0.74 FA 3 3 Moa WikbergJulia LagerstamMelina AnderssonElla Richter 1:44.55 1.6 FA 4 6 Maria VirikAnna Margrete SletsjoeeVilma FjeldheimKristine Strand Amundsen 1:44.56 1.61 FB 5 4 Emily LewisZoe ClarkDeborah KerrKristina Armstrong 1:44.86 1.91 FB 6 7 Sara DaldossAnastasia InsabellaMeshua MarigoSara Vesentini 1:46.14 3.19 FB 7 2 Milana Dushev-JanicEkaterina ShubinaArina TanatmishevaShakhrizoda Mavlonova 1:47.45 4.5 FB 8 1 Brenda RojasMaria Magdalena GarroPaulina Amneris Barreiro HusLucia Dalto Aziz 1:48.03 5.08 FB 9 9 Callie LochMichelle RussellRiley MelansonToshka Besharah 1:48.42 5.47 Finals

The results of the finals were as follows:Women's K-4 500 m - Finals - Results

B final 14:34 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap 1 7 Karina Alanis MoralesAna Ximena HernandezBeatriz Briones FragozaMaricela Montemayor Rodriguez 1:41.27 - 2 5 Reka KiskoAngelina Judit SzegediDorina DecsiAnna Meszaros 1:41.68 +0.41 3 6 Emily LewisZoe ClarkDeborah KerrKristina Armstrong 1:42.20 +0.93 4 9 Olivia BrettJacqueline KennedyGreer MorleyLucy Matehaere 1:42.44 +1.17 5 3 Salya LefoulonManon HostensVanina PaolettiPauline Freslon 1:42.53 +1.26 6 4 Maria VirikAnna Margrete SletsjoeeVilma FjeldheimKristine Strand Amundsen 1:43.35 +2.08 7 2 Sara DaldossAnastasia InsabellaMeshua MarigoSara Vesentini 1:43.56 +2.29 8 8 Milana Dushev-JanicEkaterina ShubinaArina TanatmishevaShakhrizoda Mavlonova 1:43.88 +2.61 9 1 Anezka PaloudovaZuzana HanusovaStepanka SobiskovaEliska Betlachova 1:44.64 +3.37

A final 15:04 Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Gap 4 Shimeng YuMengdie YinNan WangSiyu Shen 1:38.67 - 6 Sara OuzandeLucia ValDaniela Garcia Heredia Barbara Pardo 1:39.91 +1.238 5 Paulina PaszekFinja HermanussenPauline JagschNele Reinwardt 1:39.93 +1.258 4= 2 Reka BugarSofia BergendiHana GavorovaBianka Sidova 1:40.94 +2.261 4= 8 Sandra OstrowskaDominika PuttoJulia OlszewskaKatarzyna Kosciolek 1:40.94 +2.261 6 9 Moa WikbergJulia LagerstamMelina AnderssonElla Richter 1:40.97 +2.296 7 7 Neutral Athletes B Alina SvitaUladzislava SkryhanavaIna SauchukNadzeya Kushner 1:40.99 +2.319 8 3 Kailey HarlenNatalia DrobotClaudia BaileyAlyssa Bailey 1:41.45 +2.774 9 1 Sara Corfixsen MilthersFrederikke Hauge MoerckeKatrine Hladka Jensen Bolette Nyvang Iversen 1:42.15 +3.474

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