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19 September - Finals

  • Stepanka Hilgertová (CZE) is poised to become the second person to win 10 medals in a single event at the world championships.
  • Hilgertová has won nine medals in the Women's K1 Team, four gold, four silver and one bronze. Only Michal Martikán (SVK) has won more medals in a specific event.
  • Coming into these world championships, Martikán has won 10 medals in the Men's C1, claiming four gold, three silver and three bronze medals.
  • Hilgertová won gold with the team in 2013 before finishing sixth last year.
  • Aged 45 years and 158 days, she already is record holder as oldest medallist at the world championships, when she won gold in this event in 2013. She will be 47 years and 162 days old on the day of the finals.
  • Coming into these world championships, she has won 13 total medals (G6-S5-B2 all events), three more than any other woman.
  • Last year's winners France can become the first team to win this event in back-to-back world championships since Czech Republic were victorious in 2003 and 2005.
  • France need one more gold medal in this event to win their 10th world title in the Women's K1 Team, becoming the first nation to reach this total.
  • France have only won the C2 Men's Team at least 10 times at the world championships as they have won it 11 times coming into these world championships.
  • In the last two editions of this event six different nations were on the podium as Czech Republic (gold), Germany (silver) and Slovenia (bronze) claimed medals in 2013 and France (gold), Austria (silver) and Slovakia (bronze) took the medals last year.