Men's canoe at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Venue	Lee Valley White Water Centre
Location	London, United Kingdom
Dates	20–22 September 2023
Competitors	74 from 35 nations
Medalists
Benjamin Savšek    Slovenia   Nicolas Gestin    France   Paolo Ceccon    Italy

Events at the 2023 World Championships
Individual events
C1	men	women
K1	men	women
Kayak cross	men	women
Team events
C1	men	women
K1	men	women

The men's canoe event at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 22 September 2023 at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in London, with the qualification heats on 20 September 2023.

Competition format

The event uses a three-round format with qualification heats, semifinal and final. Paddlers complete up to two runs in the heats, with the top ranked athletes starting last. In the first heat, the 20 fastest paddlers qualify automatically for the semifinal, whilst the rest compete in the second heat for additional 10 qualification spots. The final rank of non-qualifying athletes is determined by their second run score. Paddlers start in the reverse order of their heats position in the semifinal and complete a single run, with the top 10 advancing to the final. The start list for the final is once again in reverse order of the semifinal results. The athlete with the best time in the single-run final is awarded gold.

A penalty of 2 seconds is awarded for touching a gate and a 50-second penalty is awarded for missing a gate or negotiating it in the opposite direction.

The heats setup had 23 gates including 6 upstream gates (3-11-12-15-19-23). The semifinal and final gate setup also had 23 gates with 6 upstream gates (3-11-12-15-19-23), but in a more difficult configuration, causing slower times.

Schedule

All times listed are UTC+1.

Results

Benjamin Savšek won his second individual world title in the C1 event and fifth medal. He recorded a clean run in the final. Nicolas Gestin and Paolo Ceccon earned their first individual medals at the World Championships, winning silver and bronze respectively. Ceccon became the first Italian to win a medal in the C1 event.

There were 12 quota spots available for the 2024 Summer Olympics, one per country. The quota spots were secured by:

•  Slovenia
•  France
•  Italy
•  Czech Republic
•  Great Britain
•  Slovakia
•  Germany
•  Poland
•  Ireland
•  Croatia
•  United States
•  Spain

Penalties are included in the time shown. The fastest time in each round is shown in bold.

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Heats						Semifinal[1]			Final[2]
				Run 1[3]			Run 2[4]
				Time	Pen	Rank	Time	Pen	Rank	Time	Pen	Rank	Time	Pen	Rank
	1	Benjamin Savšek	Slovenia	85.97	0	7	-			98.09	2	1	97.40	0	1
	5	Nicolas Gestin	France	85.31	0	3	-			100.57	0	8	98.58	0	2
	16	Paolo Ceccon	Italy	90.23	2	27	87.63	0	8	101.22	2	10	98.90	0	3
4	14	Lukáš Rohan	Czech Republic	89.14	0	24	86.78	0	5	100.01	0	4	98.93	0	4
5	11	Adam Burgess	Great Britain	85.59	0	4	-			100.18	0	6	99.80	0	5
6	8	Václav Chaloupka	Czech Republic	89.12	2	23	86.14	0	2	100.51	0	7	100.48	0	6
7	7	Matej Beňuš	Slovakia	87.72	0	15	-			100.02	0	5	100.98	0	7
8	3	Sideris Tasiadis	Germany	88.00	2	16	-			99.43	0	3	104.52	4	8
9	26	Grzegorz Hedwig	Poland	87.71	2	14	-			98.48	2	2	110.33	4	9
10	2	Luka Božič	Slovenia	88.23	2	17	-			100.89	2	9	149.61	52	10
11	10	Ryan Westley	Great Britain	87.05	0	10	-			101.29	2	11	did not advance
12	4	Alexander Slafkovský	Slovakia	86.72	0	9	-			101.62	2	12
13	20	Jules Bernardet	France	85.83	0	5	-			102.35	4	13
14	13	Marko Mirgorodský	Slovakia	86.03	0	8	-			103.03	0	14
15	9	Franz Anton	Germany	87.62	0	13	-			103.16	0	15
16	29	Robert Hendrick	Ireland	85.86	2	6	-			103.51	0	16
17	27	Matija Marinić	Croatia	92.17	4	37	87.92	0	9	104.69	4	17
18	21	Timo Trummer	Germany	94.34	6	41	88.16	0	10	105.78	4	18
19	38	Casey Eichfeld	United States	89.74	2	26	87.60	2	7	105.89	4	19
20	15	Thomas Koechlin	Switzerland	88.69	0	20	-			106.13	2	20
20	25	Luis Fernández	Spain	88.63	2	18	-			106.13	4	20
22	18	Kacper Sztuba	Poland	91.11	2	31	86.61	0	3	107.27	6	22
23	32	Takuya Haneda	Japan	89.02	0	22	86.07	0	1	108.61	2	23
24	12	Raffaello Ivaldi	Italy	84.40	0	2	-			109.32	4	24
25	6	Miquel Travé	Spain	84.07	2	1	-			109.68	2	25
26	67	Zhang Peng	China	88.92	0	21	87.35	0	6	112.26	6	26
27	23	Zachary Lokken	United States	87.52	0	11	-			119.13	0	27
28	22	Žiga Lin Hočevar	Slovenia	88.68	0	19	-			159.83	52	28
29	66	Charles Corrêa	Brazil	201.36	104	71	86.77	0	4	166.32	54	29
30	17	Liam Jegou	Ireland	87.53	2	12	-			253.48	152	30
31	24	Jiří Prskavec	Czech Republic	90.33	0	28	88.47	2	11	did not advance
32	35	Daniel Pérez	Spain	91.35	2	32	88.76	2	12
33	43	Kauã da Silva	Brazil	91.69	0	34	89.07	0	13
34	36	James Kettle	Great Britain	96.56	4	49	89.12	2	14
35	31	Jake Cochrane	Ireland	139.90	52	66	89.35	0	15
36	74	Anvar Klevleev	Uzbekistan	91.62	4	33	89.97	2	16
37	49	Shota Sasaki	Japan	92.04	2	36	90.18	0	17
38	30	Tristan Carter	Australia	90.38	0	29	90.29	2	18
39	39	Joris Otten	Netherlands	94.61	2	42	90.30	0	19
40	34	Brodie Crawford	Australia	97.45	4	51	90.46	0	20
41	50	Christos Tsakmakis	Greece	95.76	0	47	90.77	0	21
42	19	Roberto Colazingari	Italy	90.58	0	30	90.80	2	22
43	51	José Carvalho	Portugal	97.95	4	52	91.11	0	23
44	46	Oliver Puchner	New Zealand	150.32	54	69	91.38	0	24
45	44	Xie Yuancong	China	145.53	54	68	91.42	0	25
46	42	Alexandr Kulikov	Kazakhstan	92.02	2	35	91.90	2	26
47	68	Chen Zhihao	China	95.09	0	44	91.95	0	27
48	40	Alex Baldoni	Canada	98.98	4	53	92.21	2	28
49	37	Kaylen Bassett	Australia	95.45	2	46	92.26	2	29
50	60	Abubakir Bukanov	Uzbekistan	94.99	2	43	92.56	2	30
51	53	Kuanysh Yerengaipov	Kazakhstan	93.70	4	38	92.86	0	31
52	45	Michał Wiercioch	Poland	144.10	52	67	93.13	2	32
53	41	Sebastián Rossi	Argentina	94.12	0	40	93.65	2	33
54	33	Jean-Pierre Bourhis	Senegal	94.05	2	39	93.78	0	34
55	54	Manuel Trípano	Argentina	101.96	2	55	94.51	0	35
56	57	Sören Loos	Netherlands	96.72	2	50	95.29	2	36
57	48	Nathaniel Francis	United States	DNF		74	95.93	0	37
58	52	Terence Saramandif	Mauritius	96.04	4	48	95.99	4	38
59	47	Roko Bengeri	Croatia	102.92	10	57	96.91	6	39
60	69	Liu Chin-han	Chinese Taipei	95.44	2	45	96.94	2	40
61	72	Leonardo Curcel	Paraguay	107.31	4	60	98.23	0	41
62	58	Daniel Parry	Canada	104.95	4	59	98.53	6	42
63	56	Shota Saito	Japan	99.33	2	54	98.96	0	43
64	55	Alibek Temirgaliev	Uzbekistan	108.17	2	61	99.56	4	44
65	59	Yutthakan Chaidet	Thailand	104.83	6	58	102.62	0	45
66	61	Nicolás Trípano	Argentina	102.55	2	56	104.51	4	46
67	70	Ioannis Zachos	Greece	123.85	4	64	107.28	2	47
68	62	Muhammet Usta	Turkey	109.12	8	62	108.69	0	48
69	65	Richard Merjan	Lebanon	166.57	56	70	122.15	6	49
70	28	Lucas Roisin	France	89.19	2	25	137.51	52	50
71	64	Emir Fazıl Yazıcı	Turkey	112.83	8	63	168.69	56	51
72	73	Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani	ICF	286.91	158	73	191.17	56	52
73	71	Rimantas Pumputis	Lithuania	229.45	110	72	196.23	58	53
74	63	Ricardo Fentanes	Mexico	124.65	14	65	246.71	106	54

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