Category: International

Great Britain capped the 2025 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in style with more medal success on the final day of action in Hungary.

Will Short made it two medals for the championships as he and Alex Worgan claimed a brilliant silver in the junior men’s K2 behind favourites Kevin Budai and Zarand Lanczi.

It left Great Britain sixth in the overall medal table with a gold, silver and bronze, following a fourth-place finish in the European Championships, while there were three golds and a bronze for GB’s paracanoe paddlers.

To read the rest of today’s write-up, you can visit the Paddle UK website post here.

The Great Britain team put down some more solid performances on day three of the 2025 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Hungary.

European K1 longcourse champion James Russell was unable to add a world medal in a fast-paced senior men’s K1 final won by Mads Pedersen, but recorded the day’s best finish for GB in sixth.

Russell lined up alongside team-mate Matt Johnson in a huge 44-man field, and after a predictably hectic start, both manoeuvred themselves into the front group before Russell got into an early breakaway group of eight.

To read the full write-up, visit the Paddle UK Website Page here.

Dianora De Bilio secured a brilliant maiden medal for Great Britain on day two of the 2025 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Hungary.

After claiming two world titles on a hectic opening day of short course in Gyor, GB were quickly back in the medals once more as attention switched to the longer distances.

De Bilio produced a powerful finish to claim a well-deserved bronze in the junior women’s K1.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet, but I’m very happy and really looking forward to tomorrow as well,” said the under 16s paddler who still has two more years of racing in the junior category.

And after success in KL1 on day one, former Paralympic champion Jeanette Chippington picked up her second gold medal of the championships in the women’s senior VL2 race.

To read the full article, visit the Paddle UK website here.

Great Britain celebrated a gold medal double as the 2025 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships got under way in Hungary.

Buoyed by a fine European Championships in June, a confident British squad brought this momentum into a busy opening day of 3.6k short distance heats and finals in Gyor.

Will Short turned in a stunning performance to win Britain’s first-ever junior men’s short course gold.

And with official Paracanoe world titles contested for the first time here, Jeanette Chippington became Britain’s first-ever official Paracanoe marathon world champion with a dominant performance in the women’s 6km KL1 race.

To read the rest of today’s article, visit the Paddle UK News Page here.

The final international of the 2025 season is here and it is going to be a busy week of racing in Gyor, Hungary. Our Masters racing team kicked off the competition on Monday with the K1/C1 races, with triple medal success, followed by the K2/C2 races today. You can see all the finishes on the results page here. Well done to the whole team for an amazing competition once again! If you wish to get involved with the Masters team in the future, visit our dedicated information here to find out more.

The Junior, Under 23, Senior and Para racing kicks off from Thursday, with the official debut of para classes taking place on the first day alongside short course racing for the other categories. With multiple entries in races across all four days of competition, it will be an action-packed four days of racing so make sure you tune in to cheer on our amazing British team.

Start lists and live results for all events can be found here. Any live updates from our British team will be shared via our social media platforms throughout the event as well.

All racing will be live streamed via the PlanetCanoe Youtube Channel. For full information on how to become a member to the channel to access the live stream, visit our how to watch Canoe Marathon website page.

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We are looking forward to some exciting racing over the next few days! Good luck to all!

The 87th Descenso Internacional Del Sella will take place this Saturday 9th August in Asturias, Spain. We have a long history with paddlers competing in the event from teams being selected historically to several clubs now supporting paddler entries over recent years.

In the 87th edition, we have 60 boats with 104 paddlers representing Great Britain and their clubs on the start line. You can find the full start lists via the event results page here. All paddlers will start at 11am BST from Arriondas and racing the 20k route down to the sea at Ribadesella. If you have not had the opportunity to watch any of the previous Sella Descents, you can find live streams and videos on youtube here.

While majority of the racers will only compete on the Saturday, the Senior Men K2 and K1 racers also compete tomorrow morning in a time trial to determine their starting order on Saturday. You can view the full results from this time trial here.

Spanish television live stream the whole descent, with a focus on the front of the race. You can find the live stream for this on the RTVE website here.

We wish all British racers the best of luck and we look forward to cheering you all on via the live stream on Saturday.

This weekend (9th – 10th August), Melissa Johnson (Nottingham Kayak Club) and James Russell (Chelmsford Canoe Club) will be representing Great Britain and Canoe Marathon on the disciplines biggest stage, The World Games.

What is The World Games?

The World Games is an international multi-sport event, similar to the Olympic Games, but including sports that are not part of the traditional Olympic Games Programme. It is held every four years and in 2025, it will take place in Chengdu, China. Canoe Marathon has been an official event at The World Games since the 2022 edition in Birmingham, United States. Dragon Boating and Canoe Polo will also be part of the event programme, as well as many other sports.

Nations are required to qualify spots in the two race categories at the previous years World Championships. The two categories available for qualification are Senior Men K1 and Senior Women K1. For the 2025 edition, our senior athletes qualified both available spots, which continues our prefect qualification record for a second games in a row.

What does Canoe Marathon look like at The World Games?

At this year The World Games, canoe marathon involves two distances, short course and standard distance.

On Saturday 9th August, James and Melissa will compete in short course heats, where the fastest five boats from each heat will go into the final as well as the five next fastest finishers. The short course finals will be later that afternoon.

On Sunday 10th August, both categories will have a standard distance race of 21.5 kilometres and 8 portages.

How can I watch and support the team?

The World Games has officially launched it’s own platform for spectators and fans to follow all the live action. The World Games Live is an website and app which “will offer live coverage of competitions, the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and medal ceremonies for all 34 sports of the programme. After each event concludes, all streamed content will become available as video on demand (VoD), ensuring fans can relive the highlights whenever they choose. Additionally, the platform will feature daily highlights and a dedicated Daily Show throughout the Games. The application will be available on desktop and mobile versions, completely free-of-charge”.

You can also follow along via our normal social media channels (as well as possible with the time difference!).

Schedule of Events

Thursday 7th August

Saturday 9th August

Sunday 10th August

We look forward to cheering both James and Melissa!