Men's kayak at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Venue	Lee Valley White Water Centre
Location	London, United Kingdom
Dates	21–23 September 2023
Competitors	101 from 45 nations
Medalists
Joseph Clarke    Great Britain   Jiří Prskavec    Czech Republic   Mathis Soudi    Morocco

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 kayak event at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 23 September 2023 at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in London, with the qualification heats on 21 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 30 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

British paddler Joseph Clarke was the last man to start after winning the semifinal and he managed to back up his semifinal run with another clean and fast run to win gold ahead of the Czech paddler Jiří Prskavec and Mathis Soudi from Morocco. For Clarke it was his first individual medal in the K1 event at the World Championships. Prskavec won his fifth medal in the discipline and third silver. Soudi made history by becoming the first African paddler to win any kind of medal at the Canoe Slalom World Championships.

There were 15 quota spots available for the 2024 Summer Olympics, one per country. The quota spots were secured by:

•  Great Britain
•  Czech Republic
•  Morocco
•   Switzerland
•  Australia
•  Italy
•  Poland
•  Spain
•  Slovenia
•  China
•  Sweden
•  New Zealand
•  Japan
•  Ireland
•  Slovakia

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
	6	Joseph Clarke	Great Britain	83.28	2	23	-			90.96	0	1	91.32	0	1
	1	Jiří Prskavec	Czech Republic	79.12	0	2	-			92.70	0	2	93.26	0	2
	40	Mathis Soudi	Morocco	80.87	0	10	-			95.15	0	5	93.91	0	3
4	7	Martin Dougoud	Switzerland	81.53	0	12	-			94.56	0	4	93.93	0	4
5	23	Timothy Anderson	Australia	79.84	0	5	-			95.52	0	6	94.50	0	5
6	4	Giovanni De Gennaro	Italy	79.96	0	7	-			94.26	0	3	94.74	0	6
7	92	Mateusz Polaczyk	Poland	134.04	52	79	81.71	0	4	95.74	0	8	95.04	0	7
8	26	Pau Echaniz	Spain	86.65	4	34	81.95	0	6	95.96	0	9	96.59	0	8
9	28	Jonny Dickson	Great Britain	133.68	54	78	82.91	2	10	95.99	0	10	98.28	0	9
10	3	Peter Kauzer	Slovenia	81.43	0	11	-			95.64	0	7	152.71	52	10
11	24	Quan Xin	China	83.63	2	25	-			96.30	0	11	did not advance
12	33	Isak Öhrström	Sweden	83.23	0	22	-			96.51	0	12
13	18	Finn Butcher	New Zealand	82.67	0	18	-			96.79	0	13
14	13	Titouan Castryck	France	82.05	0	15	-			97.00	0	14
15	52	Yuuki Tanaka	Japan	81.79	0	13	-			97.05	4	15
16	42	Noel Hendrick	Ireland	84.79	0	30	-			97.20	0	16
17	19	Jakub Krejčí	Czech Republic	79.11	0	1	-			97.21	2	17
18	36	Adam Gonšenica	Slovakia	87.47	4	40	82.87	0	9	97.59	0	18
19	12	Jakub Grigar	Slovakia	80.36	0	8	-			97.72	2	19
20	5	Boris Neveu	France	83.44	2	24	-			97.76	0	20
21	25	David Llorente	Spain	82.56	0	17	-			97.80	4	21
22	10	Martin Srabotnik	Slovenia	136.67	52	84	81.84	0	5	97.83	2	22
23	15	Lucien Delfour	Australia	85.73	4	32	81.64	0	2	97.98	2	23
24	2	Vít Přindiš	Czech Republic	81.88	2	14	-			98.22	6	24
25	32	Pedro Gonçalves	Brazil	133.52	54	76	82.10	0	7	98.49	2	25
26	35	Christopher Bowers	Great Britain	80.37	0	9	-			98.70	4	26
27	44	Mathieu Desnos	Brazil	79.27	0	3	-			99.15	2	27
28	20	Dariusz Popiela	Poland	79.89	0	6	-			99.41	4	28
29	9	Hannes Aigner	Germany	84.11	0	28	-			99.42	4	29
30	30	Martin Halčin	Slovakia	84.20	0	29	-			99.68	2	30
31	34	Michał Pasiut	Poland	82.78	0	20	-			100.09	0	31
32	14	Mario Leitner	Austria	82.12	0	16	-			100.47	2	32
33	29	Kazuya Adachi	Japan	87.00	4	37	81.68	0	3	105.07	0	33
34	38	Žiga Lin Hočevar	Slovenia	82.70	0	19	-			105.25	4	34
35	65	Trevor Boyd	Canada	83.22	0	21	-			106.90	6	35
36	39	Callum Gilbert	New Zealand	84.02	0	26	-			113.52	6	36
37	21	Stefan Hengst	Germany	79.51	0	4	-			140.61	50	37
38	43	Dimitri Marx	Switzerland	133.35	50	75	82.91	0	10	144.07	52	38
39	37	Xabier Ferrazzi	Italy	133.66	52	77	80.22	0	1	159.36	54	39
40	41	Benjamin Pope	Australia	87.29	2	38	82.63	0	8	199.10	100	40
41	45	Erik Holmer	Sweden	84.04	0	27	-			203.18	100	41
42	16	Noah Hegge	Germany	135.36	50	82	83.02	0	12	did not advance
43	8	Felix Oschmautz	Austria	139.31	52	87	83.64	2	13
44	11	Miquel Travé	Spain	139.00	52	85	84.29	2	14
45	22	Benjamin Renia	France	135.58	54	83	85.22	2	15
46	47	Fredrik Wahlén	Sweden	86.77	2	35	85.51	0	16
47	48	Lucas Rossi	Argentina	94.18	8	62	85.58	0	17
48	31	Gabriel De Coster	Belgium	184.16	102	95	85.66	4	18
49	46	Joshua Joseph	United States	194.03	100	96	85.69	2	19
50	49	Maxime Aubertin	Belgium	148.31	56	90	85.92	2	20
51	51	Tyler Westfall	United States	90.15	2	50	86.97	0	21
52	54	Samuel Curtis	Ireland	88.36	2	43	87.35	0	22
53	72	Matías Contreras	Argentina	139.12	54	86	87.79	2	23
54	87	Zhu Haoran	China	139.68	54	88	87.96	4	24
55	90	Imangali Mambetov	Kazakhstan	92.65	2	61	88.20	0	25
56	55	Alex Baldoni	Canada	87.81	4	41	88.24	4	26
57	73	Andraz Echeverría Olguín	Chile	86.84	0	36	88.35	4	27
58	70	Djanibek Temirgaliev	Uzbekistan	88.00	2	42	88.90	4	28
59	57	Lorand Gjoshi	Kosovo	86.59	2	33	89.10	4	29
60	71	Mustafa Arda Acar	Turkey	195.48	102	97	89.65	0	30
61	60	Ritvars Celmiņš	Latvia	88.50	0	44	90.16	2	31
62	50	Yusuke Muto	Japan	135.34	50	81	90.90	0	32
63	64	Thibaud Lacour	Romania	90.45	0	52	90.99	0	33
64	74	Manuel Trípano	Argentina	91.14	0	54	93.03	4	34
65	77	Alexis Pérez	Venezuela	97.08	4	65	93.65	0	35
66	63	Serhii Sovko	Ukraine	92.24	4	60	94.38	4	36
67	66	Frederico Alvarenga	Portugal	89.40	0	48	94.87	0	37
68	78	Vilius Rasimavičius	Lithuania	94.87	2	63	94.95	2	38
69	94	Salim Ahmad Jemai	Tunisia	89.63	0	49	95.22	8	39
70	88	Andy Barat	Comoros	102.24	2	68	95.69	0	40
71	76	Mārtiņš Plaudis	Latvia	95.60	0	64	96.78	0	41
72	56	Alistair McCreery	Ireland	91.84	2	58	99.55	4	42
73	79	Antonio Reinoso	Mexico	98.07	2	66	103.20	4	43
74	80	Yusuf Emir Ertek	Turkey	275.61	152	99	103.92	2	44
75	89	Ong Jun Yi	Singapore	111.36	8	72	111.59	2	45
76	82	Vėjas Pranskūnas	Lithuania	128.75	0	74	113.08	4	46
77	85	Mantas Atmanavičius	Lithuania	111.36	12	72	114.72	8	47
78	81	Tarık Tuğcu	Turkey	155.98	54	91	115.36	4	48
79	99	Marcos Gallegos	Chile	109.52	6	71	118.15	8	49
80	97	Tang Hung-Yuan	Chinese Taipei	134.11	10	80	118.28	0	50
81	95	Samuel Muchiri	Kenya	DSQ		101	120.52	2	51
82	101	Iain Rennie	South Africa	256.35	108	98	126.28	8	52
83	27	Gelindo Chiarello	Switzerland	91.61	6	55	132.70	52	53
84	84	Pradhyumna Singh Rathod	India	302.81	156	100	132.83	4	54
85	59	Roko Bengeri	Croatia	84.88	0	31	135.35	52	55
86	61	Kaelin Friedenson	United States	88.77	2	45	136.54	50	56
87	68	Maël Rivard	Canada	98.27	4	67	136.62	50	57
88	17	Marcello Beda	Italy	90.87	2	53	136.87	50	58
89	69	Thomas Ukalovic	Croatia	146.34	60	89	138.17	52	59
90	58	Ren Korpes	Croatia	91.97	2	59	138.36	50	60
91	62	Lucas Jacob	Portugal	87.33	2	39	138.50	52	61
92	98	Sam Oud	Netherlands	91.76	0	56	138.59	50	62
93	53	Huang Liman	China	91.78	6	57	139.62	56	63
94	67	Moritz Kremslehner	Austria	88.82	0	46	141.12	52	64
95	93	Guilherme Mapelli	Brazil	90.27	2	51	142.23	56	65
96	96	Fernando Reinoso	Mexico	161.74	8	93	145.10	14	66
97	75	João Cunha	Portugal	88.98	0	47	147.54	54	67
98	83	Edgars Gravitis	Latvia	106.99	0	70	148.62	54	68
99	86	Donovan Wewege	South Africa	104.40	2	69	154.95	54	69
100	91	Solomon Maragh	Jamaica	173.10	56	94	219.11	108	70
101	100	Scott Humphry	South Africa	159.57	14	92	310.55	160	71

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