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Women’s C1 200m

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

  • Laurence Vincent-Lapointe (CAN) can become the second woman in world championships history to win an individual event five times.
  • Vincent-Lapointe has won all four previous gold medals in women’s C1 200m.
  • She can join Birgit Fischer (GER) as only women to win an individual event five times. Fischer won K1 500 a record seven times.
  • Vincent-Lapointe has won 15 of her last 16 major races in this event, including gold at the Pan American Games in July 2015.
  • She finished second in Poznan in May 2012, behind her compatriot Mallorie Nicholson (CAN). 
  • Staniliya Stamenova (BUL) won the 2015 European championship gold in this event. She took silver at the last two world championships and claimed bronze in 2011. Only Vincent-Lapointe won more medals (4, all gold).
  • Valdenice Conceicao Nascimento took bronze at the 2014 world championships. She also finished third at the 2015 Pan American Games.
  • Kincso Takacs (HUN) won gold in this event at the 2015 world junior & under 23 championships.

Women’s C2 500m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals

  • Kincso Takacs (HUN) can extend her run as only woman to have won a medal in this event in all editions it is being held at the world championships.
  • Takacs won bronze in 2011, silver in 2012 and gold in 2014.
  • She won her last two medals, silver in 2013 and gold in 2014, with Zsanett Lakatos (HUN).
  • Laurence Vincent-Lapointe (CAN) is the only athlete to have won two gold medals in this event, in 2011 and 2013. She finished fourth in 2014.
  • Daryna Kastsiuchenka (BLR) and Kamila Bobr (BLR) took silver at the 2014 world championships, but they won gold at the 2014 European championships, despite their young age of only 18 (Kastsiuchenka) and 17 (Bobr).
  • Belarus has never won a gold medal in a women’s event at the world championships. They won their last gold medal in men’s C4 1000 in 2011.
  • Maria Maillard/Nancy Millan Valdes (CHI) took bronze in 2013, Chile’s only medal at the world championships prior to 2015.