Maksym Prokopenko had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 2nd 2006 C2 1000 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy), 2nd 2009 C2 1000 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy), 2nd 2010 C2 500 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy), 2nd 2011 C2 500 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy), 2nd 2011 C2 1000 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy), 2nd 2011 C1 4×200 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy and the non-Olympians Valentin Demyanenko and Andrey Kraytor), 3rd 2009 C2 500 m (with Serhiy Bezuhliy). Prokopenko represented the Ukraine up to 2008 and competed for Azerbaijan from 2009 onwords.
