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Women's K1

16 September - Heats
19 September - Semifinals / Finals 

  • Jessica Fox (AUS) hopes to retain her 2014 world title and become the third woman to win the K1 at back-to-back world championships. 
  • The only women who have won successive world titles in the K1 are Ludmilla Polesna (TCH) in 1961-1963 and in 1967-1969 and Corinna Kuhnle (AUT) in 2010-2011.
  • Kuhnle can become the second woman to win at least three K1 world titles after Polesna (4 titles). Stepanka Hilgertová (CZE) can also achieve this feat as she was victorious in 1999 and 2003.
  • Kuhnle can give Austria its sixth gold medal in this event at the world championships, most of all countries if East Germany, West Germany and Germany are calculated separately as well as Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia.
  • Hilgertová can equal Polesna on a record five total medals at the world championships in this event. She last claimed a medal in 2007, finishing third.
  • Reigning European champion Maialen Chourraut (ESP) can give Spain its first gold medal in this event. Spain have won one silver medal (2009, Chourraut) and one bronze medal (2011, Chourraut) in women's K1 at the world championships.
  • No woman has yet won the world title as well as the European title in the same year in the K1.
  • Emilie Fer (FRA) can win her second world title as reigning Olympic champion as she won the world title in 2013. She can become the second woman to win two world titles as reigning Olympic champion in the K1 following Stepanka Hilgertová (CZE).
  • Hilgertová won the Olympic title in 1996 followed by a world title in 1999 and she won the Olympic title in 2000 followed by a world title in 2003.