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Five years after Emma Jørgensen delivered Denmark’s first Women’s K1 200m world title on home water, former K2 partner Frederikke Hauge Mørcke has followed her onto the top step of the podium – with Hungary’s Anna Lucz once again taking silver.

The Men’s K1 500m celebrated its 50th World Championship edition in Poznań on Sunday, and while the title went outside Europe, the historic final produced a significant moment for the host nation as 20-year-old Alex Borucki ended Poland’s 15-year wait for a medal in one of canoe sprint’s longest-standing individual events.

Spain arrived in Poznań with one of the strongest women’s kayak programmes in Europe. Two days of World Championship finals have only reinforced that status, with the Women’s K4 extending an extraordinary run of international podiums and Laia Pèlachs finally collecting the first World Championship medal of her career.

The 200-metre races may be the shortest on the Canoe Sprint World Championship programme, but in Poznań they have carried stories stretching across years. Oleksii Koliadych claimed a third world title, Andrea Domenico Di Liberto returned to the top five years after his first, while Marko Dragosavljević finally collected the senior World Championship medal that had escaped him for more than a decade.