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European countries have completed clean sweeps of seven of the ten podiums. The dominance has been particularly clear in the men’s program, where Europe has won all five gold medals and occupied all 15 podium positions.

Australia leads on golds, but Czechia has the most medals

Australia currently leads the medal table with three gold medals, all involving Jessica Fox.

Fox opened the championships by winning the Women’s Kayak Cross Individual before becoming world champion in Women’s K1. She was also part of the victorious Australian Women’s K1 team alongside Kate Eckhardt and Noemie Fox.

Czechia has collected the highest overall number of medals, with six: two gold, three silver and one bronze. Great Britain follows with five medals, including two world titles, while France has three podium finishes.

Twelve European nations have already won at least one medal. By comparison, only two non-European countries have reached the podium: Australia, with three gold medals, and host nation United States, with one silver.

European clean sweep in Men’s Kayak Cross Individual

Great Britain’s Joseph Clarke secured the first European title of the championships in the Men’s Kayak Cross Individual.

Clarke produced the fastest time of 46.54 seconds, finishing 0.16 seconds ahead of Czechia’s Jakub Krejci. Spain’s David Llorente completed an entirely European podium, 0.44 seconds behind the winner.

Australia’s Jessica Fox won the women’s competition in 51.05 seconds, but the remaining medals again went to Europe. Czechia’s Katerina Bekova took silver, only 0.03 seconds behind, while Great Britain’s Lois Leaver secured bronze.

Europe dominates the team competitions

Australia won the Women’s K1 team title, finishing 0.64 seconds ahead of France, with Slovakia taking bronze.

The Men’s K1 team event produced a complete European podium. Slovenia’s Ziga Lin Hocevar, Lan Tominc and Peter Kauzer became world champions in 89.50 seconds. Switzerland’s Martin Dougoud, Jan Rohrer and Gelindo Chiarello took silver, while Austria’s Felix Oschmautz, Mario Leitner and Max Steinbrenner secured bronze.

Great Britain won the Men’s C1 team title through Ryan Westley, Adam Burgess and Peter Linksted. France finished only 0.36 seconds behind, while Germany completed the podium.

Slovakia claimed the Women’s C1 team crown with Zuzana Pankova, Sona Stanovska and Emanuela Luknarova. Czechia took silver, just 0.23 seconds behind, while France earned bronze.

Europe therefore won 11 of the 12 medals available across the four team competitions.

Krejci and Fox take the K1 world titles

Czechia’s Jakub Krejci became Men’s K1 world champion after completing a clean final run in 83.65 seconds.

Poland’s Michal Pasiut finished only 0.69 seconds behind to take silver, while Italy’s Giovanni De Gennaro secured bronze and completed another all-European podium.

Jessica Fox continued her outstanding championships by winning the Women’s K1 title in 92.06 seconds. United States athlete Evy Leibfarth delighted the home crowd by taking silver, with Great Britain’s Kimberley Woods securing bronze.

Historic title for Trave and another Czech gold

Miquel Trave delivered Spain’s first Men’s C1 world title with a clean run of 88.28 seconds.

Great Britain’s Adam Burgess finished 1.49 seconds behind to take silver, while Czechia’s Lukas Kratochvil secured bronze. The three European athletes were the only finalists to finish within two seconds of the winning time.

Tereza Kneblova then earned Czechia’s second individual world title of the championships in the Women’s C1.

Kneblova won with a clean run of 100.52 seconds, finishing 2.52 seconds ahead of Andorra’s Monica Doria. Poland’s defending champion Klaudia Zwolinska completed the podium with bronze.

None of the individual Canoe Slalom or Kayak Slalom champions from the 2025 World Championships successfully defended their titles in Oklahoma City.

European athletes with multiple medals

Six European athletes have already won more than one medal before the final Kayak Cross competitions.

Krejci combined his Men’s K1 world title with silver in the Kayak Cross Individual, while Kneblova followed her Women’s C1 team silver with individual gold.

Burgess won gold in the Men’s C1 team event before adding individual silver. Pankova and Stanovska were part of Slovakia’s gold-medal Women’s C1 team and bronze-medal Women’s K1 team.

Marjorie Delassus collected silver with France in the Women’s K1 team competition and bronze in the Women’s C1 team event.

Jessica Fox is the leading athlete of the entire championships so far, with three gold medals.

Medal table before the final Kayak Cross events

Europe versus the rest of the world

Europe has won 70 per cent of the titles awarded so far and almost 87 per cent of all medals.

Kayak Cross to decide the final two titles

The championships conclude today with the head-to-head Kayak Cross competition.

The programme begins with the repechages from 10:00 to 12:15 local time, followed by the heats from 13:30. The elimination rounds, finals and closing ceremony will take place between 15:00 and 17:40.

Joseph Clarke enters the final day having already won the Men’s Kayak Cross Individual title. The British athlete will also attempt to win a fifth successive world title in the head-to-head competition.

France’s Angele Hug returns as the defending Women’s Kayak Cross world champion, while several athletes who have already reached the podium in Oklahoma City will have another opportunity to add to their medal totals.

With six medals still available, Europe enters the final day in a commanding position and with another opportunity to strengthen its dominance at the venue that will host Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross during the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.