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Men’s C1 200m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals 

  • Valentin Demyanenko (AZE) can win a fifth gold medal and a sixth total medal in men’s C1 200m.
  • Demyanenko’s four gold medals are already a record-most in this event.
  • Demyanenko can equal Maxim Opalev (RUS) on a record six total medals in men’s C1 200m: G3-S3.
  • The 200m and 5000m events are the only  men’s C1 events that have not been won at least five times by a single athlete.
  • Yuriy Cheban (UKR) is defending champion in men’s 200m. The 2012 Olympic champion also won this event in 2007 and if he wins a third gold he will equal Opalev on second-most gold medals behind Demyanenko’s four.
  • Ukraine is the only country to have won all medals of all colour in this event: G4-S1-B5.
  • Only Russia (12) has won more medals in C1 men’s 200m than Ukraine’s 10.
  • Russia is the only country to have won a medal in this event at each of the last 12 world championships (since 1999).
  • Henrikas Zustautas (LTU) won this event at the European games in Baku in 2015. Ahead of these world championships, no athlete from Lithuania had ever won gold in a C1 or K1 event.
  • Only two of the 49 medals in this event have been won by non European countries - Canada and Kazakhstan each claimed a bronze medal.

Men’s C1 500m

21 August - Heats / Semifinals
23 August - Finals 

  • Isaquias Queiroz Dos Santos (BRA, 21) can become the youngest man to win an individual event in canoe/kayak three times.
  • Queiroz Dos Santos won gold in this event in 2013 and 2014. He will be 21 years and 232 days on 23 August and can become the youngest man to win an individual event three times. 
  • He can be the first non European man to win a canoe event three times.
  • Greg Barton (USA), Ken Wallace (AUS) and Nathan Baggaley (AUS) have all won three gold medals in kayak events.
  • Martin Fuksa (CZE) has won the last three gold medals in this event at European championships. And he claimed bronze at the world championships in 2014.
  • Fuksa can follow in the footsteps of Martin Doktor (CZE) who is the only Czech athlete to win this event, in 1997.
  • Mikhail Pavlov (RUS) won the race in Copenhagen in May 2015, ahead of Ilya Shtokalov (RUS). They can hand Russia a record seventh gold in this event. Russia and URS have both won six gold medals.

Men’s C1 1000m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals 

  • Defending champion Sebastian Brendel (GER) can extend his golden run in men’s C1 1000m.
  • Brendel is the reigning Olympic champion, world champion, European champion and European Games winner in this event.
  • Brendel has won a medal in this event at four of the last five world championships: G1-S1-B2.
  • Brendel also won this event at the 2014 world cup race in Milan.
  • Attila Vajda (HUN) can win his fourth gold in this event, after 2007, 2011 and 2013. Only Ivan Klementjev (LAT, 6) and Andreas Dittmer (GER, 5) have more. 
  • Vajda can win his seventh medal in men’s C1 1000m (G3-S1-B2). Only Klmentjev (9) and Dittmer (8) have more. 
  • Germany (including FRG and GDR) has won this event 12 times, three more than runner up URS/RUS.
  • Martin Fuksa (CZE) won gold at the 2015 world junior and Under 23 championships and he took silver at the 2015 European Games and the world championships in 2014.
  • Czech Republic has won six medals in this event, including five silver and one bronze.
  • In 1950, Josef Holecek (TCH) won the only gold medal in this event for Czechoslovakia in C1 1000m.
  • Isaquias Queiroz Dos Santos (BRA) won gold in C1 1000m at the 2015 Pan American Games and he finished second in this event at the 2014 world cup race in Milan. He took bronze at the 2013 world championships.

Men’s C1 5000m

23 August - Finals

  • Sebastian Brendel (GER) can win a third consecutive gold medal in men’s C1 5000m. He is already the most successful athlete in his event.
  • Brendel won gold in 2013 and 2014, finishing ahead of Attila Vajda (HUN) on both occasions.
  • Jose Luis Bouza (ESP) is the only other athlete on two medals in this event: silver in 2010 and bronze in 2011.
  • Russia’s Pavel Petrov can also win a second medal in C1 5000m after bronze in 2014. He took silver at the 2015 European championships behind Brendel.
  • Germany (3) and Ukraine (1) are the only countries to have won gold in this event.
  • Matej Rusnak (SVK) won the world cup in Milan in 2014 in C1 5000m. He can win Slovakia’s second medal in this event at world championships after Marián Ostrcil (SVK) claimed bronze in 2010.
  • Wang Riwei (CHN) finished second in the 2015 Copenhagen race. Prior to the 2015 world championships, China has won three medals (G0-S1-B2) in men’s event, all in C1 500m.

 

Men’s C2 200m

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

  • van Shtyl (RUS) can win men’s C2 200m for a record fourth time.
  • Ivan Shtyl (RUS) has won three gold medals in this event, in 2006, 2007 and 2014. He can become the first to win this event four times.
  • Shtyl is now equal on three gold medals with Evgeny Ignatov (RUS), with whom he won gold in 2006 and 2007, and with Lithuanian duo Raimundas Labuckas/Tomas Gadeikis (LTU).
  • Shtyl teamed up with Aleksey Korovashkov (RUS) to win gold in 2014 in C2 200m and in C2 500. They also won this event at the 2015 European championships.
  • Shtyl can win his sixth medal in this event (G3-S2) to equal the record by Germany’s Christian Gille (G2-S3-B1).
  • Robert Nuck (GER) and Stefan Holtz (GER) won bronze in 2009, gold in 2013 and silver in 2014. They can win the fourth gold for Germany in this event. Only Russia has won more gold medals: five.
  • Hleb Saladukha/Dzianis Makhlai (BLR) won the world cup event in Duisburg in May 2015 and they can become the second Belarus duo to win gold in men’s C2 200 at world championships after Alexandre Masseikov/Dmitri Dovgalenok (BLR) in 1994.

Men’s C2 500m

20 August - Heats / Semifinals
22 August - Finals 

  • Liviu Dumitrescu (ROU) and Victor Mihalachi (ROU) can win their third gold medal in men’s C2 500m.
  • Liviu Dumitrescu (ROU) and Victor Mihalachi (ROU) have won two gold medals (2010, 2011) and one silver (2014) in this event.
  • Only György Kolonics (HUN, 5), István Vaskuti (HUN, 5) and Csaba Horváth (HUN, 4) have won more gold medals in this event.
  • Romania can win this event for the sixth time, overtaking URS on the medal table, behind Hungary’s 11.
  • Ronald Verch (GER) and Yul Oeltze (GER) took silver at the 2015 Copenhagen world cup. They hope to win the first medal for Germany in this event since 2011. Germany has nine medals in total in this event, including a record six bronze (G2-S1-B6).
  • Brazil hope to win its first medal in this event at the world championships with Erlon de Souza Silva (BRA) and Ronilson Matias De Oliveira (BRA) who claimed silver at the Panamerican Games in July 2015.
  • Dmytro Ianchuk/Taras Mischuk (UKR) claimed silver in C2 500m at the 2015 European championships. Ukraine has yet to win its first medal in this event.
  • Hungary has won most medals, 19, including a record 11 gold.

Men’s C2 1000m 

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

  • Defending champions Liviu Dumitrescu/Victor Mihalachi (ROU) hope to win their third gold medal in men’s C2 1000m.
  • Dumitrecsu and Mihalachi won gold in 2010 and 2014. They can join Ivan Patzaichin (ROU) on three gold medals in this event, one fewer than record holder Tomasz Wylenzek (GER, 4).
  • Ilya Pervukhin (RUS) finished second in this event at the 2015 European Games and European championships, twice teaming up with Aleksey Korovashkov (RUS). 
  • Pervukhin will now form a duo with Viktor Melantyev (RUS), who took silver in this event at the world championships in 2013 and bronze in 2009.
  • Aliaksander Bahdanovic/Andrei Bahdanovic (BLR) won gold in C2 1000m at the 2015 European Games.
  • The London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallists can win the first gold medal for Belarus in this event at the world championships after they took silver in 2010, their country’s only medal in this event.
  • Germany’s Peter Kretschmer won Olympic gold in 2012 and claimed bronze at the 2015 European Games. And silver at the 2012 European championships. He has yet to win a medal in C2 1000 at the world championships.
  • Robert Mike (HUN) has won gold (2013), silver (2014) and bronze (2010) in this event. His partner Henrik Vasbányai (HUN) won the 2013 and 2014 with him.
  • Germany (excluding FRG, GDR) and Hungary have won eight gold medals in this event, only Romania has won more, 10.

 Men’s C4 1000m

21 August - Heats / Semifinals
23 August - Finals 

  • Belarus’s five-time medal winning quartet hopes to add a record fourth gold in C4 1000m event.
  • Aliaksandr Vauchetski, Dzianis Harazha, Dzmitry Rabchanka and Dzmitry Vaitsishin (BLR) have won a medal in this event in each of the last five editions.
  • The took silver in 2013 and 2014 after having won the event three times in a row in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
  • No other athletes have won more gold (3) or more total medals (5) in C4 1000m than this Belarusian quartet.
  • Belarus can win its fourth gold in this event, one behind Hungary’s record five.
  • Imre Pulai (HUN), Nikolay Juravski (URS), Valeriy Veshko (URS) and Victor Reneiskiy (URS) have also won three gold medals in this event.
  • Defending champions Russia can win a third gold medal in C4 1000m after gold in 1999 and 2014.
  • Kirill Shamshurin (RUS) and Rasul Ishmukhamedov (RUS) helped Russia win gold at the 2014 world championships and 2015 European championships.
  • Romania finished runners up at the 2015 European championships behind Russia.
  • Iosif Chirila (ROU) has won gold (2007) and bronze (2009) at world championships in this event and six medals in C4 1000m at European championships, including in 2015.
  • Hungary has won bronze in this event at the last three world championships. Hungary’s five gold, three silver and five bronze medals are a record most in C4 1000m.