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31.8.2026
The series concluded in Cesson-Sévigné, France, following nine competitions divided into two parts. The final classification rewarded both performance and consistency, taking each athlete’s best result from Part 1 and their three best results from Part 2.
After the final calculations, Poland, France and Germany shared the four overall victories, while athletes from five different nations reached the final top three across the Olympic K1 and C1 categories.
Poland’s Jakub Brzezinski is the 2026 Paddle Europe Slalom Cup winner in K1 Men after finishing the season with 180 points.
Brzezinski built his victory through consistency across both parts of the competition. His best Part 1 result contributed 42 points, before he added 138 from his three counting races in Part 2, including the maximum 60 points from his victory in Bratislava.
His final advantage was significant, with France’s Titouan Estanguet finishing second on 120 points and Slovakia’s David Skubik completing the overall podium with 115.
The final ranking represented a major turnaround from the middle of the season. After Krakow, Brzezinski was still seventh overall, but his Bratislava victory completely changed the championship picture and he remained in control through the closing rounds.
K1 Men – Final Top 3
One of the strongest finishes to the season came from France’s Eva Pietracha, who claimed the overall K1 Women title with 196 points, the highest final score across all four categories.
Pietracha collected 40 points from her best result in Part 1 before producing an outstanding second half of the season. After taking 36 points in Krakow, she won both of the final rounds in Prague and Cesson-Sévigné, collecting 60 points on each occasion and bringing her Part 2 total to 156 points.
Those performances allowed her to overtake compatriot Coline Charel, who had taken the overall lead following Bratislava. Charel eventually finished second with 165 points, giving France the top two positions in the final K1 Women classification.
Spain’s Haizea Segura completed the podium with 119 points.
K1 Women – Final Top 3
No category was closer than C1 Men.
Germany’s Benjamin Kies eventually secured the 2026 title with 141 points, just one point ahead of France’s Elouan Debliquy, who finished on 140.
Kies had been one of the biggest movers of the season after his Bratislava victory earned him the maximum 60 points. A further 43 points from fifth place in Prague took his Part 2 score to 103, which, combined with his 38-point best result from Part 1, proved just enough to secure the overall crown.
Debliquy pushed the German all the way to the end. His stronger Part 1 score of 55 points combined with 85 points from Part 2, including 44 points from fourth place in the final round in Cesson-Sévigné, left him only one point short of the title.
Poland’s Kacper Sztuba, who had led the classification following Krakow and remained on top after Bratislava, eventually finished third with 102 points.
C1 Men – Final Top 3
France celebrated a second overall women’s title through Laurene Roisin, who completed an impressive campaign to win C1 Women with 180 points.
Roisin won each of the three races that contributed to her final total: her victory in Pau provided the maximum 60-point result from Part 1, before further victories in Bratislava and Prague added another 120 points.
The French paddler therefore finished 67 points clear of Spain’s Nora Lopez, the largest winning margin across the four 2026 classifications.
Lopez secured second position with 113 points, while Slovakia’s Hana Danisova finished only two points further behind on 111 to take third place.
C1 Women – Final Top 3
The final classifications underline the international character of the 2026 Paddle Europe Slalom Cup.
France was the most represented nation among the twelve final podium positions, taking five places, including the overall victories of Eva Pietracha and Laurene Roisin. French athletes also finished second in three categories through Titouan Estanguet, Coline Charel and Elouan Debliquy.
Poland added the K1 Men title through Brzezinski and a C1 Men third place with Sztuba, while Germany celebrated Kies’ C1 Men victory. Spain and Slovakia each collected two final podium positions.
The four titles were therefore shared between three nations: France with two, Poland with one and Germany with one.
The margins also demonstrated how different the four title battles became. Roisin finished 67 points clear in C1 Women and Brzezinski won K1 Men by 60, while Pietracha finished 31 points ahead in K1 Women. At the opposite extreme, only a single point separated Kies and Debliquy after the entire season in C1 Men.
From the opening races in March to the final weekend in Cesson-Sévigné, the 2026 Paddle Europe Slalom Cup once again brought together established international athletes and a new generation of European paddlers across a season-long competition.
With the final points now calculated, Jakub Brzezinski, Eva Pietracha, Benjamin Kies and Laurene Roisin are the 2026 Paddle Europe Slalom Cup champions.
Full results can be found here
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