2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships – Men's C1

Reigning World Champion Cédric Joly did not have the opportunity to defend his title won in La Seu d'Urgell in 2019, after he missed out on domestic selection.[4] World No. 1 and Tokyo bronze-medallist Sideris Tasiadis also didn't compete. Benjamin Savšek entered the event as Olympic Champion and had the opportunity to become the first male to become World and Olympic Champion in the same calendar year.[5] Frenchman Denis Gargaud Chanut came into the event having won two World Cup rounds en route to his first overall World Cup title. Gargaud Chanut also won the European Championships this year and the 2011 World Championships on this course.[6][7] Host nation Slovakia also fielded a strong team, with World No. 2 Alexander Slafkovský and No. 4 Matej Beňuš.[8]

The Men's C1 event in canoe slalom uses a three-round format with heats, a semifinal and final. Athletes complete up to two runs in the heats. In the first heat, the 20 fastest men qualify automatically for the semifinal, whilst the rest complete another run in the repêchage second heat for a further 10 qualification positions. The final rank of non-qualifying athletes is determined by their second run score. Athletes 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 athlete with the best time in the single-run final is awarded gold.[9]

Penalties of 2 or 50 seconds are incurred for infractions such as missing a gate, touching a gate, or not negotiating gates in numerical order. A team may request up to one review of a penalty per boat in the heats or semifinals phases, with no enquiries considered in the finals.[9]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Home favourite Alexander Slafkovský topped the first heat with a clean 83.96, more than 2 seconds clear of next best Olympic Champion Benjamin Savšek.[10] Pole Kacper Sztuba won the second heat, 3.03 off Slafkovský's first run time. Martin Thomas and Raffaello Ivaldi were the two highest ranked athletes to miss out on the semifinal. 26 of the 30 who progressed to the semifinal did so with a penalty-free run.

Savšek finished fastest in the semifinal with a time of 91.18, ahead of 2018 World Champion Franz Anton and Slafkovský.

Václav Chaloupka became the 2021 C1M World Champion with a clean run of 92.02, the first to become both Senior and U23 World Champion in this event. Slafkovský won silver, just 0.15 seconds behind Chaloupka due to a touch on the penultimate gate, whilst Anton won bronze. Savšek appeared set to win the event before a mistake at the bottom of the course which incurred him a 50-second penalty.

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

Rank	Bib	Canoeist	Nation	Heats						Semifinal[11]			Final[12]
				Run 1[13]			Run 2[14]
				Time	Pen.	Order	Time	Pen.	Order	Time	Pen.	Order	Time	Pen.	Order
	17	Václav Chaloupka	Czech Republic	90.86	0	26	91.12	2	7	93.63	4	6	92.02	0	1
	1	Alexander Slafkovský	Slovakia	83.96	0	1	-			92.75	2	3	92.17	2	2
	2	Franz Anton	Germany	88.32	0	16	-			91.66	0	2	94.10	2	3
4	19	Nicolas Gestin	France	88.04	0	12	-			94.44	4	7	94.81	4	4
5	7	Denis Gargaud Chanut	France	88.21	0	15	-			93.11	0	4	94.84	4	5
6	13	Ander Elosegi	Spain	88.37	2	17	-			93.56	2	5	95.17	2	6
7	16	Lukáš Rohan	Czech Republic	87.52	0	9	-			95.87	6	10	99.15	0	7
8	8	Adam Burgess	Great Britain	89.92	2	24	88.85	0	3	95.60	0	9	105.96	2	8
9	5	Benjamin Savšek	Slovenia	86.30	0	2	-			91.18	2	1	141.31	50	9
10	3	Matej Beňuš	Slovakia	88.07	0	13	-			95.57	2	8	141.97	50	10
11	6	David Florence	Great Britain	86.57	0	3	-			96.58	2	11	did not advance
12	10	Miquel Travé	Spain	90.57	2	25	87.49	0	2	97.09	6	12
13	26	Zachary Lokken	USA	89.58	0	19	-			97.19	4	13
14	28	Luis Fernández	Spain	87.15	0	7	-			97.39	4	14
15	23	Kirill Setkin	RCF	93.02	2	35	88.97	0	4	97.80	0	15
16	27	Flavio Micozzi	Italy	87.71	0	10	-			98.85	0	16
17	24	Matija Marinić	Croatia	86.91	0	5	-			100.08	2	17
18	14	Roberto Colazingari	Italy	89.34	0	18	-			101.19	6	18
19	12	Grzegorz Hedwig	Poland	88.11	0	14	-			101.22	4	19
20	34	Nikolai Shkliaruk	RCF	93.11	2	36	91.65	2	9	101.41	2	20
21	38	Joris Otten	Netherlands	92.35	0	31	89.71	0	5	101.76	6	21
22	25	Liam Jegou	Ireland	91.17	2	28	90.68	0	6	102.35	6	22
23	21	Kacper Sztuba	Poland	89.60	0	21	86.99	0	1	109.69	4	23
24	20	Thomas Koechlin	Switzerland	86.98	0	6	-			142.40	50	24
25	22	Vojtěch Heger	Czech Republic	87.98	0	11	-			142.43	50	25
26	18	Casey Eichfeld	USA	89.59	2	20	-			145.56	50	26
27	4	Luka Božič	Slovenia	86.80	0	4	-			148.76	56	27
28	30	Jean-Pierre Bourhis	Senegal	89.70	0	22	91.69	0	10	149.20	52	28
29	36	Peter Linksted	Great Britain	91.47	0	29	91.22	0	8	151.42	52	29
30	9	Marko Mirgorodský	Slovakia	87.50	0	8	-			256.22	156	30
31	32	Dmitrii Khramtsov	RCF	92.37	2	32	91.74	2	11	did not advance
32	31	Jake Cochrane	Ireland	146.87	54	46	92.68	2	12
33	29	Timo Trummer	Germany	92.83	0	33	94.91	2	13
34	33	Felipe Borges	Brazil	95.28	0	38	95.59	2	14
35	42	Nathaniel Francis	USA	100.05	2	39	95.84	2	15
36	35	Klemen Vidmar	Slovenia	145.83	50	45	96.19	0	16
37	48	Abubakir Bukanov	Uzbekistan	105.26	2	40	97.57	2	17
38	15	Raffaello Ivaldi	Italy	91.99	0	30	97.80	4	18
39	39	Michal Wiercioch	Poland	92.96	0	34	98.55	2	19
40	45	Alex Baldoni	Canada	94.85	2	37	98.78	2	20
41	40	Kaua Da Silva	Brazil	105.35	6	41	100.41	4	21
42	41	Shota Saito	Japan	161.71	54	49	102.98	0	22
43	47	Alibek Temirgaliev	Uzbekistan	105.79	2	42	104.29	0	23
44	43	Aurimas Kuodis	Lithuania	153.32	6	48	132.46	12	24
45	52	Rimantas Pumputis	Lithuania	150.28	4	47	135.17	12	25
46	11	Martin Thomas	France	89.77	0	23	144.78	52	26
47	37	Kaylen Bassett	Australia	91.06	2	27	144.84	54	27
48	46	Ricardo Fentanes	Mexico	168.99	10	50	149.32	14	28
49	44	Wu Jung-Cheng	Chinese Taipei	125.37	4	43	165.47	50	29
50	50	Samuel Muturi	Kenya	171.07	12	51	167.81	10	30
51	49	Ismoilbek Abdumanapov	Uzbekistan	224.96	106	52	180.23	54	31
52	51	Grigorios Komninos	Greece	130.37	8	44	209.54	60	32
53	53	Matteo-Alexander Olar	Romania	245.28	110	53	225.19	60	33