2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup La Seu: Preview, schedule and how to watch live
World cup titles will be won and rapids will be conquered during the final canoe slalom world cup race of the season. Find out how to follow all the action from the Parc Olímpic del Segre.
Canoe Slalom
It’s been a memorable summer for canoe slalom athletes, with four world cups and the Olympic Games Paris 2024 all packed into one entertaining schedule. However, there’s still six world cup titles left to be awarded during the final weekend of whitewater paddling this summer at the 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup La Seu from 19-22 September.
With its characteristically steep drops and natural design, the Parc Olímpic del Segre in La Seu d’Urgell, Spain will provide the ideal conditions for a dramatic conclusion to the 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup.
Olympic champions Jessica Fox, Noemie Fox, Giovanni De Gennaro, Nicolas Gestin and Finn Butcher will all be in attendance, with the promise of double points adding an extra layer to each of the individual world cup title battles.
Through the next four days, expect tense runs, razor-thin margins and thrilling races as the world’s best canoe slalom athletes go head-to-head one final time this season.
Read on to find out more about the 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup La Seu, including the schedule, key athletes to follow and how to watch canoe slalom live from the Parc Olímpic del Segre.
Olympic champions look to make late comeback in world cup title battles
Australia’s Jessica Fox will return to the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup for the first time since she won a pair of gold medals in the women’s kayak single and canoe single events at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
The four-time olympian has managed to maintain her lead in the women’s canoe single standings despite skipping the fourth world cup event in Ivrea, Italy.
Germany’s Nele Bayn will enter the final World Cup weekend as her closest challenger, but Fox will be heavily favored to win the title after finishing no worse than second place in the three World Cups she entered this season.
Fox will, however, need to chart a more challenging path to the title in the women’s kayak single event, where she enters the final World Cup race of the season third in the World Cup rankings.
France’s Emma Vuitton leads the rankings ahead of Germany’s Ricarda Funk - gold medalist in the event at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. However, Fox and Funk have averaged better scores throughout the season, each missing one World Cup to give Vuitton the edge.
Of course, Vuitton’s lead isn’t to be taken lightly, as the 20-year-old already proved she could beat both Fox and Funk this season, claiming victory over the pair at the 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup Prague.
There will be another tense battle fought between Great Britain's Kimberley Woods and Czechia’s Tereza Kneblova, this one in the women’s kayak cross event.
Woods, who won a bronze medal in the event at Paris 2024, leads the standings ahead of Kneblova. Noemie Fox**,** who took the gold in Paris, will also look to play spoiler, attempting to improve her fifth place ranking and win her first World Cup race of the season.
Nonetheless, with only a few points separating Woods and Kneblova, the battle for the World Cup title will ultimately be decided on the water at the Parc Olímpic del Segre.
Elena Lilik (GER) competes in kayak cross at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Like fellow Olympic champion Fox, France’s Nicolas Gestin will make his highly anticipated return to World Cup competition at the 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup La Seu.
He’ll race purely for pride, however, as he enters the weekend outside of the top ten in the World Cup rankings, led by Slovakia’s Matej Benus - bronze medallist at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Benus controls the rankings by a thin margin over Slovenia’s teenage phenom Ziga Lin Hocevar, who’s struggled to find his way back to the podium since winning the first World Cup race of the year in Augsberg, Germany.
Slovakia’s Marko Mirgorodsky and Slovenia’s Luka Bozic and Benjamin Savsek remain within striking distance of the leading pair as well, creating a high stakes battle for the title.
The men’s kayak single event is a little more straightforward, with France’s Anatole Delassus holding a strong lead over his nearest rivals in the rankings. Nonetheless, Czechia’s duo of Jakub Krejci and Vit Prindis will be eager to 'rock the boat' during the final world cup of the season.
Olympic champion Giovanni De Gennaro will enter the final World Cup sixth in the rankings, behind Poland’s Mateusz Polaczyk and Slovenia’s Peter Kauzer. All three will look to improve their standings and add a final accolade to their growing resumes.
While there is plenty to fight set to go down in the men’s canoe single and kayak single events, it is perhaps the men’s kayak cross where paddlers have the most to gain - or lose - during the final World Cup of the season.
Brazil’s Pedro Goncalves leads the rankings by a single point over France’s Mathurin Madore, with the pair positioned for an epic duel at the Parc Olímpic del Segre.
Of course, they’ll have to battle past the likes of Olympic champion Finn Butcher and Paris 2024 runner-up Joseph Clarke if they want to stand on top of the podium in La Seu d’Urgell - a challenge as daunting as the event itself.
Schedule for the 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup La Seu
All time local (CEST - GMT +2)
Thursday 19 September
- 14:00 Women's Kayak - Heats run 1
- 14:53 Men's Kayak - Heats run 1
- 16:07 Women's Kayak - Heats run 2
- 16:40 Men's Kayak - Heats run 2
Friday 20 September
- 08:15 Women's Canoe - Heats run 1
- 09:02 Men's Canoe - Heats run 1
- 09:59 Women's Canoe - Heats run 2
- 10:24 Women's Canoe - Heats run 2
- 14:00 Women's Kayak - Semi final
- 15:05 Men's Kayak - Semi final
- 16:49 Women's Kayak - Final
- 17:26 Men's Kayak - Final
Saturday 21 September
- 09:00 Women's Canoe - Semi final
- 10:05 Men's Canoe - Semi final
- 11:34 Women's Canoe - Final
- 12:11 Men's Canoe - Final
Sunday 22 September
- 08:45 Women's Kayak Cross - time trials
- 09:27 Men's Kayak Cross - time trials
- 11:15 Women's Kayak Cross - heats
- 11:39 Men's Kayak Cross - heats
- 12:19 Women's Kayak Cross - 1/4 final
- 12:38 Men's Kayak Cross - 1/4 final
- 12:56 Women's Kayak Cross - 1/2 final
- 13:05 Men's Kayak Cross - 1/2 final
- 13:18 Women's Kayak Cross - final
- 13:25 Men's Kayak Cross - final
2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup La Seu: How to watch live
The 2024 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup Ivrea can be streamed on the International Canoe Federation YouTube Page. Viewers will be required to pay a monthly subscription fee to access live streams of the competition.