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Thursday 31 July updated on 07-31-2025 at 8:06
Thursday 31 July updated on 07-31-2025 at 8:06
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Tuesday, July 22
Men's single canoe – Women's kayak – Men's, women's, and mixed double canoe
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Qualification run 1
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Qualification run 2
Wednesday, July 23
Men's kayak – Women's single canoe
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Qualification run 1
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Qualification run 2
Thursday, July 24
Finals for all boats
8:45 AM – 11:45 AM: Women's kayak finals, Men's kayak finals
11:45 AM – 11:55 AM: Olympic Medalists Run from Paris 2024
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Women's and Men's single canoe finals
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Presentation of the French U18 and U23 Slalom Teams 2025 – Town Hall Square
6:30 PM: Awards ceremony – Town Hall Square
Friday, July 25
12:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Club Team Run 1
Saturday, July 26
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Club Team Run 2
6:30 PM: Awards ceremony – Town Hall Square
Friday, July 25
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Free Kayak Cross training
Saturday, July 26
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Free Kayak Cross training
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Kayak Cross Time Trial
Sunday, July 27
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Round of 16 and quarter-finals
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Semi-finals and finals
3:00 PM: Awards ceremony – whitewater base, left bank
Thursday, July 24 – 8:30 PM – Salle La Scène
Come meet the medal-winning athletes from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!
They will share with you their Games experience, their Olympic titles, and their new goals.
The medalists present:
- Nélia BARBOSA, Paralympic KL3D Silver Medalist
- Nicolas GESTIN, Olympic Canoe Slalom Champion
- Titouan CASTRYCK, Olympic Kayak Slalom Silver Medalist
- Angèle HUG, Olympic Kayak Cross Silver Medalist
Alongside them, Tony ESTANGUET, three‑time Olympic canoe slalom champion (2000, 2004, 2012) and President of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, will also join this exceptional discussion.
Saturday, July 26 from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Paddleboarding, kayak, airboat for children over 7 years and adults. Aquatic proficiency required / No registration. Meet at the small lake, left bank.
Friday, July 25 starting at 8:00 PM
Club night with COOL BUS and DJ sets “Della and Dan Aka” and “DJ Panic ey yje beatniks”. Left bank – club bar.
From July 22 to 27
Exhibitor villages – Left bank
AIFCK exhibition “Canoe‑Kayak at the Games 1924–2024” – Left bank
An internationally renowned course: competition takes place on the Haute-Isère in Bourg‑Saint‑Maurice, in a natural setting.
The Haute‑Isère course offers a magnificent competition environment in the heart of nature, meeting all organizational and logistical requirements for top-level canoe‑kayak events (the only course to host three World Championships: 1969, 1987, 2002). It is famed for its technical challenges and dubbed “the world’s hardest.”
It’s a race against the clock where competitors navigate a course with 18 to 25 gates, colored red or green. The goal is to pass between the gates without touching them—descending through green gates and ascending through red gates. Each touch incurs a 2‑point penalty, added to the run time (1 point = 1 second). Each run consists of two heats, with times combined.
Kayak cross combines all whitewater canoe disciplines. Four athletes in identical boats launch from a ramp over two meters above the water.
This dramatic start leads into a course where each paddler seeks to gain an advantage. Athletes must navigate downstream and upstream gates, and contact is allowed—adding thrills for both competitors and spectators.
Most races last about one minute; the fastest to cross the finish line wins, regardless of time.
On the course, competitors must perform a 360° roll maneuver within a designated zone.
Kayak: the kayaker sits low in the hull with legs extended forward. They use a double‐bladed paddle.
Canoe: the canoeist kneels on small blocks in the hull, buttocks on a foam block (“pouf”), feet bent behind. They use a single‐bladed paddle.
