The 2017 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships was the 38th edition of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. The event took place from 22 September to 1 October 2017 in Pau, France under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF) at the Pau-Pyrénées Whitewater Stadium. Pau was also hosting the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships as part of the same event.^[1][2]

The Mixed C2 event returned to the world's program for the first time since 1981. The men's C2 team event was not a world championship event due to only 4 countries participating. A non-olympic event must have participants from at least 6 countries to be counted as a world championship.^[3]

A brand new medal event was the Extreme K1 which has been part of the World Cup program since 2016.^[4]

Schedule

13 events were held.^[5]

All times listed are UTC+2.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Czech Republic (CZE)	3	2	3	8
2	France (FRA)	2	2	1	5
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	0	3
4	Germany (GER)	2	0	2	4
5	Slovakia (SVK)	1	3	1	5
6	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
7	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	2	3
8	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	1	2
9	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
11	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[6]	Benjamin Savšek  Slovenia	94.81	Alexander Slafkovský  Slovakia	96.29	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	98.23
C1 team[7]	Slovakia Matej Beňuš Alexander Slafkovský Michal Martikán	95.44	Great Britain Ryan Westley David Florence Adam Burgess	98.44	France Denis Gargaud Chanut Martin Thomas Edern Le Ruyet	98.72
C2[8]	France Gauthier Klauss Matthieu Péché	105.30	Slovakia Ladislav Škantár Peter Škantár	105.37	Germany Robert Behling Thomas Becker	106.15
C2 team[9] (non-medal event)	France Gauthier Klauss/Matthieu Péché Nicolas Scianimanico/Hugo Cailhol Pierre Picco/Hugo Biso	104.99	Germany Robert Behling/Thomas Becker Kai Müller/Kevin Müller Franz Anton/Jan Benzien	106.80	Slovakia Ladislav Škantár/Peter Škantár Tomáš Kučera/Ján Bátik Pavol Hochschorner/Peter Hochschorner	108.16

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[10]	Ondřej Tunka  Czech Republic	91.84	Vít Přindiš  Czech Republic	91.86	Peter Kauzer  Slovenia	92.13
K1 team[11]	Czech Republic Jiří Prskavec Ondřej Tunka Vít Přindiš	93.06	France Boris Neveu Mathieu Biazizzo Sébastien Combot	94.07	Slovenia Peter Kauzer Martin Srabotnik Žan Jakše	94.41
Extreme K1[12]	Vavřinec Hradilek  Czech Republic		Boris Neveu  France		Mike Dawson  New Zealand

Women

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C1[13]	Mallory Franklin  Great Britain	109.09	Tereza Fišerová  Czech Republic	113.21	Ana Sátila  Brazil	114.29
C1 team[14]	Great Britain Mallory Franklin Kimberley Woods Eilidh Gibson	117.63	Australia Jessica Fox Noemie Fox Rosalyn Lawrence	119.28	Czech Republic Tereza Fišerová Monika Jančová Eva Říhová	122.75

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K1[15]	Jessica Fox  Australia	97.14	Jana Dukátová  Slovakia	101.76	Ricarda Funk  Germany	102.62
K1 team[16]	Germany Jasmin Schornberg Ricarda Funk Lisa Fritsche	103.60	Austria Corinna Kuhnle Lisa Leitner Viktoria Wolffhardt	103.80	Australia Jessica Fox Rosalyn Lawrence Kate Eckhardt	108.44
Extreme K1[17]	Caroline Trompeter  Germany		Ana Sátila  Brazil		Amálie Hilgertová  Czech Republic

Mixed

Canoe

The Mixed C2 event returned to the world championships after a 36-year absence. 11 crews signed up for the event. There were no heats. Top 10 from the semifinal advanced to the final. The gate setup was the same as for the heats of the other individual events, but different from the setup used for the semifinals and finals of those events.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C2[18]	France Margaux Henry Yves Prigent	105.37	Italy Niccolò Ferrari Stefanie Horn	106.09	Czech Republic Veronika Vojtová Jan Mašek	109.06