FISU World University Championship Canoe Sprint: Poland at ease at home

The Polish paddlers were in outstanding form and monopolized most of the medals at the 2022 FISU World University Championship Canoe Sprint held in Bydgoszcz.

The Polish city welcomed 159 participants from 18 countries who competed in 28 races.

The student-athletes from the host country won 25 medals out of 81 possible in total, including 19 gold out of 28 possible.

Another star of the event was Serghei Tarnovischi, from Moldova, who won all the Canoe single races in the men category.

“I’m very happy to have won my first medal at a FISU World University Championship on 200 meters. This distance is not easy for me, because I usually compete on 1000 or 500 meters,” said the triple gold winner.

The results (medals) at a glance:

Men

Canoe 1: 200m, 1. Serghei TARNOVSCHI (MDA) 40.78 ; 2. Oleksii KOLIADYCH (POL) 40.98 ; 3. Diego GONZALEZ (ESP) 41.97

Canoe 1: 500m, 1. Serghei TARNOVSCHI (MDA) 1:48:92 ; 2. Oleksii KOLIADYCH (POL) 1:53:44 ; 3. Ignacio CALVO (ESP) 1:53:56

Canoe 1: 1000m, 1. Serghei TARNOVSCHI (MDA) 4:01:37 ; 2.  Ignacio CALVO (ESP) 4:03:17 ; 3. Adrian KŁOS (POL) 4:03:63

Canoe 2: 200m, 1. Diego GONZALEZ & Yeray GARCÍA (ESP) 38.43 ; 2. Oleksii KOLIADYCH & Remigiusz NOWACZYK (POL) 39.34 ; 3. Leonard BALS & Nico PICKERT (GER) 39.63

Canoe 2: 500m, 1. Adrian KŁOS & Oleksii KOLIADYCH (POL) 1:47:39 ; 2. Diego GONZALEZ & Yeray GARCÍA (ESP) 1:49:26 ; 3. Foster SALPETER & Edouard BEAUMIER (CAN) 1:49:98

Canoe 2: 1000m, 1. Vojtech NOVACEK & Josef HAVLIK (CZE) 3:54:10 ; 2. Ignacio CALVO & Gonzalo MORENO (ESP) 3:58:74 ; 3. Arturas GOLOVAC & Ignas SERAFINAS (LTU) 4:03:18

Canoe 4: 200m, 1. POLAND 38.10 ; 2. SPAIN 38.20

Canoe 4: 500m, 1. POLAND 1:39:99 ; 2. SPAIN 1:42:66

Canoe 4: 1000m, 1. SPAIN, 3:33:32 ; 2. POLAND, 3:35:34

Kayak 1: 200m, Pedro CASINHA (POR) 36.33 ; 2. Valerii HARAP (UKR) 36.73 ; 3. Tomas JUSEVICIUS (LTU) 36.82

Kayak 1: 500m, 1. Wiktor LESZCZYŃSKI (POL) 1:42:24 ; 2. Tomas JUSEVICIUS (LTU) 1:42:28 ; 3. Milan DORNER (SVK) 1:43:21

Kayak 1: 1000m, 1. Nico PAUFLER (GER) 3:38:90 ; 2. Tomas SOBISEK (CZE) 3:40:92 and Przemysław KORSAK (POL) 3:40:92

Kayak 2: 200m, 1. Jakub STEPUN & Bartosz GRABOWSKI (POL) 32.42 ; 2. Vasyl SMILKA & Vitalii BYSTREVSKYI (UKR) 33.33 ; 3. Iago BEBIANO & Rafael OLIVEIRA (POR) 33.35

Kayak 2: 500m, 1. Jakub STEPUN & Bartosz GRABOWSKI (POL) 1:32:41 ; 2. Gustavo GONÇALVES & Pedro CASINHA (POR) 1:33:12 ; 3. Tomas SOBISEK & Jakub BRABEC (CZE) 1:33:53

Kayak 2: 1000m, 1. Jan BECHTHOLD & Nico PAUFLER (GER) 3:25:89 ; 2. Vladimir CERMAN & Jakub STEJSKAL (CZE) 3:27:40 ; 3. Steven HENRY & Guillaume KELLER (FRA) 3:28:35

Kayak 4: 200m, 1. POLAND 30.11 ; 2. PORTUGAL 30.22 ; 3. UKRAINE 31.30

Kayak 4: 500m, 1. POLAND, 1:22:99 ; 2. PORTUGAL, 1:24:35 ; 3. UKRAINE, 1:25:48

Kayak 4: 1000m, 1. POLAND, 3:02:94 ; 2. CZECH REPUBLIC, 3:06:90 ; 3. HUNGARY, 3:09:00

Women

Canoe 1: 200m, 1. Ewelina ANTOS (POL) 52.01 ; 2. Ewie McDONALD (CAN) 52.08 ; 3. Inês PENETRA (POR) 52.83

Canoe 1: 500m, 1. Julia WALCZAK (POL) 2:15:84 ; 2. Amelia WOJTYK (CAN) 2:16:96 ; 3. Elora HELLE (FRA) 2:20:31

Canoe 2: 200m, 1. Julia WALCZAK & Ewelina ANTOS (POL) 49.34 ; 2. Jessica MACKAY & Evie McDONALD (CAN) 51.20 ; 3. Elora HELLE & Laura RUIZ (FRA) 52.56

Canoe 2: 500m, 1. Julia WALCZAK & Ewelina ANTOS (POL) 2:05:07 ; 2. Jessica MACKAY & Evie McDONALD (CAN) 2:09:39 ; 3. Elora HELLE & Laura RUIZ (FRA) 2:09:94

Kayak 1: 200m, 1. Helena WIŚNIEWSKA (POL) 41.75 ; 2. Ivanna DYACHENKO (UKR) 42.52 ; 3. Anezka PALOUDOVA (CZE) 43.43

Kayak 1: 500m, 1. Helena WIŚNIEWSKA (POL), 1:50:75 ; 2. Anezka PALOUDOVA (CZE), 1:53:53 ; 3. Vanda ZUPKO (HUN), 1:56:24

Kayak 2: 200m, 1. Martyna KLATT & Sandra OSTROWSKA (POL) 39.96 ; 2. Mafalda GERMANO & Inês COSTA (POR) 41.05 ; 3. Katerina ZARUBOVA & Barbora BETLACHOVA 41.24

Kayak 2: 500m, 1. Martyna KLATT & Sandra OSTROWSKA (POL) 1:46:09 ; 2. Katerina ZARUBOVA & Barbora BETLACHOVA (CZE) 1:48:23 ; 3. Marie HUGUET & Capucine DUBUT (FRA) 1:52:80

Kayak 4: 200m, 1. POLAND 36.99 ; 2. CZECH REPUBLIC 37.82 ; 3. PORTUGAL 37.96

Kayak 4: 500m, 1. POLAND, 1:37:14 ; 2. CZECH REPUBLIC, 1:38:88 ; 3. HUNGARY, 1:41:19