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Canoe sprint made its first appearance in the FISU sports programme at the Zagreb Summer Universiade in 1987, as an optional sport. In 1998 the sport was added to the World University Championships programme.

EVENTS World University Championship

All Events Canoe Sprint

2022
Bydgoszcz (POL)
16-18 Sep 2022
2020
Minsk (BLR)
21-23 Aug 2020
2018
Szolnok (HUN)
10-12 Aug 2018
2016
Montemor-o-Velho (POR)
7-10 Jun 2016
2014
Minsk (BLR)
17-20 Aug 2014
2013
Kazan (RUS)
6-17 Jul 2013

Canoe Sports

FISU Technical Committee Chair

Zeljko RAJKOVIC (SRB)
Cathy WYNNE (GBR)

International Federation

International Canoe Federation 

The History of Canoe Sprint in FISU

Canoe sprint made its first appearance in the FISU sports programme at the Zagreb Summer Universiade in 1987, as an optional sport. The competitions were organised in Jarun on an arm of the Sava River, where in early times the first inhabitants used to travel by kayaks. The participants faced appalling weather conditions during the championship. The competitions were led by the Soviet and Romanian athletes. Among them, the great champion Aurel Macarescu stood out, taking the 500 and the 1,000 metres in the singles C1 race. In 1998 the top university specialists in this sport gathered for the first World University Championship in this discipline. The Hungarian team took six medals, five silver and one bronze, with impressive ease, thus ranking first in the number of medals taken, ahead of Poland and Romania. The second edition of the World University Championship was held in Bari, a modern industrial city on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Sixteen countries with 125 male and 35 female athletes participated. The record number of participating countries and participants was successively broken in 2008 in Belgrade and later on in Poznan, with 23 participating countries and 190 competitors for both competitions. Canoe Sprint was also chosen as an optionnal sport in Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade with a record participation of  29 countries and 257 athletes!

 

 Statistics WUC Canoe Sprint

 Edition

 Year

 Country

City

 N° of Countries

M

 W

Athletes

Officials

 Total

 1

 1998

 CRO

Zagreb

 18

 98

29

  127

 36

 163

 2

 2002

 ITA

 Bari

 16

 125

35

 160

 39

 199

 3

 2008

 SRB

 Belgrade

 23

 138

 51

 189

 57

 246

 4

 2010

 POL

 Poznan

 23

 149

 41

 190

 54

 244

 5

 2012

 RUS

 Kazan

 18

 135

 28

 163

 45

 208

 6

 2014

 BLR

 Minsk

 22

 154

52

 206

 53

 259

7

2016

POR

Montemor-o-Velho

 18  112  43  155  42  197

8

2018

HUN

Szolnok

 21  159  87  246  44  290

 

Statistics WUC Canoe Sprint as an optional sport at the Summer Universiade

 Edition

 Year

 Country

City

 N° of Countries

M

 W

Athletes

Officials

 Total

27 2013 RUS Kazan 29     261    

 Statistics WUC Canoe Slalom & Wildwater

Edition

Year

Country

City

N° of Countries

M

W

Athletes

Officials

Total

1

1994

CZE

Prague

20

84

24

108

28

136

2

1998

FRA

Metz

22

93

39

132

37

169

3

2000

SVK

Liptovsky Mikulas

10

75

24

99

19

118

4

2002

POL

Krakow

15

81

27

108

19

127

5

2006

POL

Krakow

14

69

25

94

23

117

6

2008

SVK

Bratislava

17

102

31

133

25

158