# 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships – Men's kayak cross

The men's kayak cross event at the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships took place on 24 September 2023 at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in London.

## Competition format

The kayak cross event (formerly known as extreme kayak) is split into two phases - qualification time trials and knockout phase where 4 paddlers race each other head-to-head. Top 20 paddlers from the qualification advance to the knockout phase plus the 12 next fastest paddlers from countries that have not qualified in the top 20. There are 8 heats in the first round of the knockout phase with the top 2 paddlers from each heat advancing to the next round. The same rules apply in quarterfinals and semifinals.
Paddlers start their run by sliding off the starting platform several meters above the water. Then they must navigate the downstream and upstream gates. Unlike in classic slalom, paddlers are allowed to touch the gates and even intentionally move them with their paddle, but not with a free hand. There is also a designated zone where paddlers must perform an Eskimo roll.
Athletes can be penalized in three ways in each round, by receiving a fault (FLT) or by being ranked as lower (RAL). Faults are incurred for false starts, missing gates or failing to correctly perform the Eskimo roll. Athletes are ranked as lower (RAL) if they breach the safety requirements of the competition, such as by holding back another athlete with their hands or paddle, deliberately paddling over another athlete's boat, or by making dangerous contact with another athlete's head or body - all other non-dangerous contact is allowed. In each round athletes are ranked first by the order in which they cross the finish line, with those incurring penalties ranked in the following order: FLT, RAL, DNF, DNS.
The final classification of athletes is determined in the following manner: Athletes eliminated at any phase of the competition will be given their rank based on the comparison of the qualification times of athletes eliminated at the same phase. All 3rd ranked athletes will be ranked above all 4th ranked athletes. The final rank of athletes who did not progress to the heats is determined by their qualification results.

## Schedule

All times listed are UTC+1.
| Date | Time | Round |
| 24 September 2023 |
| 24 September 2023 | 09:53 | Time trials |
| 24 September 2023 | 12:19 | Heats |
| 24 September 2023 | 13:53 | Quarterfinals |
| 24 September 2023 | 14:20 | Semifinals |
| 24 September 2023 | 14:37 | Final |

## Results
### Time trials

Top 20 qualify automatically. The last 12 spots go to fastest paddlers from countries not yet qualified.
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Joseph Clarke | Great Britain | 71.24 | Q |
| 2 | 21 | David Llorente | Spain | 71.68 | Q |
| 3 | 9 | Benjamin Renia | France | 72.19 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Giovanni De Gennaro | Italy | 72.74 | Q |
| 5 | 35 | Martin Dougoud | Switzerland | 72.75 | Q |
| 6 | 14 | Felix Oschmautz | Austria | 72.81 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Finn Butcher | New Zealand | 72.95 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Dimitri Marx | Switzerland | 73.00 | Q |
| 9 | 13 | Hannes Aigner | Germany | 73.03 | Q |
| 10 | 24 | Christopher Bowers | Great Britain | 73.18 | Q |
| 11 | 47 | Lucien Delfour | Australia | 73.44 | Q |
| 12 | 10 | Jan Rohrer | Switzerland | 73.83 | Q |
| 13 | 38 | Jakub Krejčí | Czech Republic | 73.89 | Q |
| 14 | 16 | Boris Neveu | France | 73.97 | Q |
| 15 | 45 | Miquel Travé | Spain | 74.03 | Q |
| 16 | 40 | Jonny Dickson | Great Britain | 74.09 | Q |
| 17 | 32 | Titouan Castryck | France | 74.43 | Q |
| 18 | 22 | Etienne Chappell | Great Britain | 74.48 | Q |
| 19 | 52 | Quan Xin | China | 74.66 | Q |
| 20 | 81 | Tadeusz Kuchno | Poland | 74.72 | Q |
| 21 | 7 | Mario Leitner | Austria | 74.73 | FR: 33 |
| 22 | 5 | Stefan Hengst | Germany | 74.78 | FR: 34 |
| 23 | 34 | Gabriel De Coster | Belgium | 75.02 | Q |
| 24 | 31 | Alistair McCreery | Ireland | 75.04 | Q |
| 25 | 19 | Michał Pasiut | Poland | 75.23 | FR: 35 |
| 26 | 26 | Ondřej Tunka | Czech Republic | 75.36 | FR: 36 |
| 27 | 17 | Manuel Ochoa | Spain | 75.42 | FR: 37 |
| 28 | 15 | Timothy Anderson | Australia | 75.78 | FR: 38 |
| 29 | 12 | Pedro Gonçalves | Brazil | 75.91 | Q |
| 30 | 8 | Vid Kuder Marušič | Slovenia | 76.09 | Q |
| 31 | 23 | Alex Baldoni | Canada | 76.09 | Q |
| 32 | 56 | Maxime Aubertin | Belgium | 76.27 | FR: 39 |
| 33 | 83 | Tristan Carter | Australia | 76.35 | FR: 40 |
| 34 | 41 | Manuel Munsch | Switzerland | 76.50 | FR: 41 |
| 35 | 25 | Erik Holmer | Sweden | 76.74 | Q |
| 36 | 48 | Mathieu Desnos | Brazil | 76.75 | FR: 42 |
| 37 | 20 | Tine Kancler | Slovenia | 76.96 | FR: 43 |
| 38 | 42 | Callum Gilbert | New Zealand | 77.06 | FR: 44 |
| 39 | 61 | Žiga Lin Hočevar | Slovenia | 77.17 | FR: 45 |
| 40 | 85 | Dariusz Popiela | Poland | 77.69 | FR: 46 |
| 41 | 49 | Fredrik Wahlén | Sweden | 77.94 | FR: 47 |
| 42 | 73 | Matías Contreras | Argentina | 78.34 | Q |
| 43 | 44 | Pau Echaniz | Spain | 78.35 | FR: 48 |
| 44 | 46 | Mārtiņš Plaudis | Latvia | 79.26 | Q |
| 45 | 91 | Frederico Alvarenga | Portugal | 79.31 | Q |
| 46 | 66 | Adam Gonšenica | Slovakia | 79.55 | Q |
| 47 | 64 | Leonardo Proietti | Italy | 80.05 | FR: 49 |
| 48 | 51 | Lorand Gjoshi | Kosovo | 80.06 | Q |
| 49 | 18 | Isak Öhrström | Sweden | 80.20 | FR: 50 |
| 50 | 89 | Zhu Haoran | China | 80.46 | FR: 51 |
| 51 | 30 | Andraz Echeverría Olguín | Chile | 80.62 | Q |
| 52 | 63 | Brodie Crawford | Australia | 80.64 | |
| 53 | 82 | Salim Ahmad Jemai | Tunisia | 80.86 | |
| 54 | 77 | Lucas Jacob | Portugal | 81.03 | |
| 55 | 27 | Kyler James Long | United States | 82.05 | |
| 56 | 76 | Lucas Rossi | Argentina | 82.41 | |
| 57 | 59 | Manuel Trípano | Argentina | 82.79 | |
| 58 | 99 | Guilherme Mapelli | Brazil | 82.80 | |
| 59 | 67 | Moritz Kremslehner | Austria | 83.02 | |
| 60 | 65 | Maël Rivard | Canada | 83.11 | |
| 61 | 75 | Ritvars Celmiņš | Latvia | 83.36 | |
| 62 | 80 | Kauã da Silva | Brazil | 83.41 | |
| 63 | 68 | Ren Korpes | Croatia | 83.77 | |
| 64 | 29 | Mateusz Polaczyk | Poland | 83.93 | |
| 65 | 86 | Bryson Long | United States | 84.55 | |
| 66 | 71 | Andy Barat | Comoros | 85.08 | |
| 67 | 33 | Mathis Soudi | Morocco | 85.94 | |
| 68 | 50 | Tren Long | United States | 85.99 | |
| 69 | 92 | Peter Kauzer | Slovenia | 86.21 | |
| 70 | 74 | Alexis Pérez | Venezuela | 88.10 | |
| 71 | 72 | Donovan Wewege | South Africa | 88.42 | |
| 72 | 69 | Djanibek Temirgaliev | Uzbekistan | 89.53 | |
| 73 | 60 | Edgars Gravitis | Latvia | 90.21 | |
| 74 | 87 | Liu Chin-han | Chinese Taipei | 91.34 | |
| 75 | 103 | Marcos Gallegos | Chile | 91.83 | |
| 76 | 43 | Jakub Grigar | Slovakia | 93.36 | |
| 77 | 58 | Alexandr Kulikov | Kazakhstan | 95.84 | |
| 78 | 96 | Luis Erazo | Venezuela | 96.50 | |
| 79 | 95 | Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani | ICF | 96.63 | |
| 80 | 84 | Samuel Muchiri | Kenya | 98.50 | |
| 81 | 102 | Scott Humphry | South Africa | 102.78 | |
| 82 | 90 | Fernando Reinoso | Mexico | 104.40 | |
| 83 | 88 | Pradhyumna Singh Rathod | India | 120.47 | |
| 84 | 11 | Vít Přindiš | Czech Republic | 71.97 | FLT (6) |
| 85 | 55 | Thomas Ukalovic | Croatia | 82.19 | FLT (6) |
| 86 | 94 | Mantas Atmanavičius | Lithuania | 96.44 | FLT (6) |
| 87 | 36 | Noah Hegge | Germany | 74.23 | FLT (5) |
| 88 | 4 | Anatole Delassus | France | 75.84 | FLT (5) |
| 89 | 28 | Kaelin Friedenson | United States | 79.95 | FLT (5) |
| 90 | 93 | Vilius Rasimavičius | Lithuania | 81.65 | FLT (5) |
| 91 | 57 | João Cunha | Portugal | 85.92 | FLT (5) |
| 92 | 53 | Antonio Reinoso | Mexico | 101.78 | FLT (5) |
| 93 | 37 | Trevor Boyd | Canada | 91.00 | FLT (R) |
| 94 | 78 | Solomon Maragh | Jamaica | 97.34 | FLT (R) |
| 95 | 62 | Nicolás Trípano | Argentina | 84.96 | FLT (3) |
| 96 | 54 | Huang Liman | China | 75.32 | FLT (1) |
| 97 | 39 | Martin Halčin | Slovakia | 76.32 | FLT (1) |
| 98 | 79 | Lukáš Rohan | Czech Republic | 80.86 | FLT (1) |
| 99 | 70 | Terence Saramandif | Mauritius | 93.26 | FLT (1, 5) |
| - | 101 | Iain Rennie | South Africa | - | DNF |
| - | 97 | Imangali Mambetov | Kazakhstan | | DNS |
| - | 100 | Sam Oud | Netherlands | | DNS |
| - | 98 | Tang Hung-Yuan | Chinese Taipei | | DNS |
| - | 104 | Ioannis Zachos | Greece | | DNS |

### Knockout rounds

Top 2 from each heat, quarterfinal and semifinal advance to the next round.

#### Heats
##### Heat 1

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Joseph Clarke | Great Britain | Q |
| 2 | 16 | Jonny Dickson | Great Britain | Q |
| 3 | 32 | Andraz Echeverría Olguín | Chile | |
| 4 | 17 | Titouan Castryck | France | FLT (5) |

##### Heat 2

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | Dimitri Marx | Switzerland | Q |
| 2 | 25 | Alex Baldoni | Canada | Q |
| 3 | 9 | Hannes Aigner | Germany | |
| 4 | 24 | Vid Kuder Marušič | Slovenia | FLT (2) |

##### Heat 3

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 21 | Gabriel De Coster | Belgium | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Martin Dougoud | Switzerland | Q |
| 3 | 28 | Mārtiņš Plaudis | Latvia | |
| 4 | 12 | Jan Rohrer | Switzerland | FLT (1) |

##### Heat 4

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Giovanni De Gennaro | Italy | Q |
| 2 | 20 | Tadeusz Kuchno | Poland | Q |
| 3 | 29 | Frederico Alvarenga | Portugal | |
| 4 | 13 | Jakub Krejčí | Czech Republic | RAL |

##### Heat 5

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 14 | Boris Neveu | France | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Benjamin Renia | France | Q |
| 3 | 19 | Quan Xin | China | FLT (1) |
| 4 | 30 | Adam Gonšenica | Slovakia | RAL |

##### Heat 6

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Felix Oschmautz | Austria | Q |
| 2 | 11 | Lucien Delfour | Australia | Q |
| 3 | 22 | Alistair McCreery | Ireland | |
| 4 | 27 | Matías Contreras | Argentina | |

##### Heat 7

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 26 | Erik Holmer | Sweden | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Finn Butcher | New Zealand | Q |
| 3 | 10 | Christopher Bowers | Great Britain | |
| 4 | 23 | Pedro Gonçalves | Brazil | |

##### Heat 8

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | David Llorente | Spain | Q |
| 2 | 18 | Etienne Chappell | Great Britain | Q |
| 3 | 31 | Lorand Gjoshi | Kosovo | |
| 4 | 15 | Miquel Travé | Spain | |

#### Quarterfinals
##### Quarterfinal 1

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | Dimitri Marx | Switzerland | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Joseph Clarke | Great Britain | Q |
| 3 | 25 | Alex Baldoni | Canada | FLT (5) |
| 4 | 16 | Jonny Dickson | Great Britain | FLT (3, 4) |

##### Quarterfinal 2

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Martin Dougoud | Switzerland | Q |
| 2 | 21 | Gabriel De Coster | Belgium | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Giovanni De Gennaro | Italy | |
| 4 | 20 | Tadeusz Kuchno | Poland | |

##### Quarterfinal 3

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Benjamin Renia | France | Q |
| 2 | 14 | Boris Neveu | France | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Felix Oschmautz | Austria | |
| 4 | 11 | Lucien Delfour | Australia | FLT (6) |

##### Quarterfinal 4

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | David Llorente | Spain | Q |
| 2 | 26 | Erik Holmer | Sweden | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Finn Butcher | New Zealand | |
| 4 | 18 | Etienne Chappell | Great Britain | |

#### Semifinals
##### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Martin Dougoud | Switzerland | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Joseph Clarke | Great Britain | Q |
| 3 | 21 | Gabriel De Coster | Belgium | |
| 4 | 8 | Dimitri Marx | Switzerland | FLT (5) |

##### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Notes |
| 1 | 14 | Boris Neveu | France | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Benjamin Renia | France | Q |
| 3 | 2 | David Llorente | Spain | |
| 4 | 26 | Erik Holmer | Sweden | |

#### Final

| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country |
| | 1 | Joseph Clarke | Great Britain |
| | 14 | Boris Neveu | France |
| | 5 | Martin Dougoud | Switzerland |
| 4 | 3 | Benjamin Renia | France |

### Final ranking (Top 32)

The top 32 ranking determined by the knockout rounds. Bib numbers correspond to seeding after time trials.
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Heat rank |
| | 1 | Joseph Clarke | Great Britain | 1 |
| | 14 | Boris Neveu | France | 2 |
| | 5 | Martin Dougoud | Switzerland | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | Benjamin Renia | France | 4 |
| 5 | 2 | David Llorente | Spain | SF2 (3) |
| 6 | 21 | Gabriel De Coster | Belgium | SF1 (3) |
| 7 | 8 | Dimitri Marx | Switzerland | SF1 (4) |
| 8 | 26 | Erik Holmer | Sweden | SF2 (4) |
| 9 | 4 | Giovanni De Gennaro | Italy | QF2 (3) |
| 10 | 6 | Felix Oschmautz | Austria | QF3 (3) |
| 11 | 7 | Finn Butcher | New Zealand | QF4 (3) |
| 12 | 25 | Alex Baldoni | Canada | QF1 (3) |
| 13 | 11 | Lucien Delfour | Australia | QF3 (4) |
| 14 | 16 | Jonny Dickson | Great Britain | QF1 (4) |
| 15 | 18 | Etienne Chappell | Great Britain | QF4 (4) |
| 16 | 20 | Tadeusz Kuchno | Poland | QF2 (4) |
| 17 | 9 | Hannes Aigner | Germany | H2 (3) |
| 18 | 10 | Christopher Bowers | Great Britain | H7 (3) |
| 19 | 19 | Quan Xin | China | H5 (3) |
| 20 | 22 | Alistair McCreery | Ireland | H6 (3) |
| 21 | 28 | Mārtiņš Plaudis | Latvia | H3 (3) |
| 22 | 29 | Frederico Alvarenga | Portugal | H4 (3) |
| 23 | 31 | Lorand Gjoshi | Kosovo | H8 (3) |
| 24 | 32 | Andraz Echeverría Olguín | Chile | H1 (3) |
| 25 | 12 | Jan Rohrer | Switzerland | H3 (4) |
| 26 | 13 | Jakub Krejčí | Czech Republic | H4 (4) |
| 27 | 15 | Miquel Travé | Spain | H8 (4) |
| 28 | 17 | Titouan Castryck | France | H1 (4) |
| 29 | 23 | Pedro Gonçalves | Brazil | H7 (4) |
| 30 | 24 | Vid Kuder Marušič | Slovenia | H2 (4) |
| 31 | 27 | Matías Contreras | Argentina | H6 (4) |
| 32 | 30 | Adam Gonšenica | Slovakia | H5 (4) |