Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Paracanoeing at the XVI Paralympic Games
Paracanoeing pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Venue	Sea Forest Waterway
Dates	2–4 September 2021
Competitors	91 in 9 events

Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
KL1		men		women
KL2		men		women
KL3		men		women
VL2		men		women
VL3		men

Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan took place at the Sea Forest Waterway, the same location where the rowing took place. This was the second appearance of paracanoe in the Paralympic Games and the debut of all three va'a events.

The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.

Qualification

A total of 91 athletes qualified for paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Each NPC could enter a maximum of 9 athletes (one qualification spot per event); however, an athlete could enter both kayak and va'a events in their assigned categories as long as they contested those events in one of the competitions mentioned below. Qualification spots were allocated through one of the following methods:

• The 6 top ranked athletes in each Paralympic event at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships obtain one qualification spot for their NPC.
• The 4 top ranked athletes not already qualified (as above) in each Paralympic event at the 2021 ICF Paracanoe World Cup obtain one qualification spot for their NPC.
  • If the host country hasn't qualified any athletes at a male kayak, male va'a, female kayak or female va'a event, one spot is taken from the 2021 World Cup quota and allocated to the event where an athlete from that country achieved the best rank.
  • At least three continents must be represented in each event. If this minimum is not reached, spots are taken from the 2021 World Cup quota and given to the NPC of the best ranked athlete from a different continent.
  • If there aren't enough NPCs eligible at the 2021 World Cup in a given event, the corresponding 2019 World Championships rank is used to fill the remaining spots.

Competition schedule

Participating nations

Qualification slots are allocated as follows:

NPC	Men					Women				Total
	KL1	KL2	KL3	VL2	VL3	KL1	KL2	KL3	VL2
Argentina										2
Australia										4
Austria										1
Belarus										1
Brazil										7
Canada										3
Chile										1
China										3
France										3
Germany										5
Great Britain										8
Hungary										6
India										1
Iran										2
Ireland										1
Israel										1
Italy										4
Japan										6
Kazakhstan										1
New Zealand										2
Poland										4
Portugal										2
RPC										7
Spain										5
Sweden										1
Ukraine										4
United States										2
Uzbekistan										3
Total: 28 NPCs	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	90

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	3	7
2	Australia (AUS)	2	1	0	3
3	Brazil (BRA)	1	2	0	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	0	3
5	Germany (GER)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
7	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
8	RPC (RPC)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Chile (CHI)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medalists

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's kayak	KL1	Péter Pál Kiss  Hungary	Luis Carlos Cardoso  Brazil	Rémy Boullé  France
	KL2	Curtis McGrath  Australia	Mykola Syniuk  Ukraine	Federico Mancarella  Italy
	KL3	Serhii Yemelianov  Ukraine	Leonid Krylov  RPC	Robert Oliver  Great Britain
Men's va'a	VL2	Fernando Rufino de Paulo  Brazil	Steven Haxton  United States	Norberto Mourão  Portugal
	VL3	Curtis McGrath  Australia	Giovane Vieira de Paula  Brazil	Stuart Wood  Great Britain
Women's kayak	KL1	Edina Müller  Germany	Maryna Mazhula  Ukraine	Katherinne Wollermann  Chile
	KL2	Charlotte Henshaw  Great Britain	Emma Wiggs  Great Britain	Katalin Varga  Hungary
	KL3	Laura Sugar  Great Britain	Nélia Barbosa  France	Felicia Laberer  Germany
Women's va'a	VL2	Emma Wiggs  Great Britain	Susan Seipel  Australia	Jeanette Chippington  Great Britain

See also

• Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics

External links

• Results book Archived 4 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine