Asian Games 2026 canoe slalom results: Hu Zhaoshan and Huang Juan win gold for China
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Full competition results: Asian Games 2026 - Canoe Slalom
China won both canoe slalom finals at the Asian Games 2026 on Wednesday 30 September, on the Yahagigawa course in Toyota. Hu Zhaoshan took the men's K1 by 1.46 seconds from Japan's Yuuki Tanaka, and Huang Juan retained the women's C1 title she won in Hangzhou three years ago.
Two of the six events at the Asian Games 2026 canoe slalom are done, and four countries already have medals. Kazakhstan took both bronzes, through Alexandr Korobov in K1 and Anastassiya Ananyeva in C1. The silvers went to Japan and Thailand. The men's C1 and women's K1 medals are decided on Thursday, kayak cross on Friday.
Asian Games 2026 canoe slalom medal table after two finals
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Thailand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Hu Zhaoshan covered the final course in 91.41 seconds and went clean through all 23 gates. Huang Juan scored 114.84, including a 2-second penalty, and won by 11.01 seconds.
Kazakhstan did not win a final, yet it has as many medals as China. Japan and Thailand still rank above it, because the table is ordered by golds first, then silvers.
A slalom score is the run time plus penalties: 2 seconds for touching a gate pole and 50 seconds for missing a gate or other gate faults. Every figure in this article comes from the organiser's official result sheets.
Men's K1: Hu Zhaoshan wins, Tanaka takes silver again
Hu Zhaoshan finished second in both the heats (97.32) and the semi-final (92.41). He started ninth of ten in the final, so he knew most of his rivals' scores before he went. He then put down a clean 91.41, the best score of the entire K1 event.
The fastest raw time, though, belonged to Yuuki Tanaka. He covered the semi-final course in 89.71, picked up one 2-second touch and won the semi with 91.71. In the final he stayed clean but was slower, at 92.87, and missed gold by 1.46 seconds.
It is Tanaka's second straight Asian Games silver. In Hangzhou the only man to beat him was Quan Xin, who had also won in 2018. This time Quan Xin did not make the final. He was fourth in the semi-final with 96.83, including 4 seconds of penalties, and each country could send only one athlete to the final. Of the two Chinese paddlers, Hu Zhaoshan had the better score.
The same rule ended the Games for Kazuya Adachi, the 2018 silver medallist. His clean 94.08 was the third-best score of the semi-final, but his teammate Tanaka was ahead of him, so Adachi finished 11th overall. His semi-final score was 0.40 seconds better than the bronze-medal score in the final, although that compares two different runs.
The bronze went to Kazakhstan's Alexandr Korobov, fifth in Hangzhou. In the heats he collected 54 seconds of penalties, including a 50, and placed 12th with 155.03. He was sixth in the semi-final (104.87) and went clean in the final in 94.48.
Uzbekistan's Djanibek Temirgaliev finished fourth, just as he did three years ago. He had the fourth-fastest raw time (100.54) plus one 2-second touch, and ended 8.06 seconds off bronze.
Men's K1 final results
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Penalties (s) | Score | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hu Zhaoshan | CHN | 91.41 | 0 | 91.41 | — |
| 2 | Yuuki Tanaka | JPN | 92.87 | 0 | 92.87 | +1.46 |
| 3 | Alexandr Korobov | KAZ | 94.48 | 0 | 94.48 | +3.07 |
| 4 | Djanibek Temirgaliev | UZB | 100.54 | 2 | 102.54 | +11.13 |
| 5 | Liao Li-hong | TPE | 103.86 | 4 | 107.86 | +16.45 |
| 6 | Pradhyumna Singh Rathod | IND | 119.21 | 6 | 125.21 | +33.80 |
| 7 | Baek Seojin | KOR | 132.39 | 4 | 136.39 | +44.98 |
| 8 | Piyanath Koetsuk | THA | 112.27 | 52 | 164.27 | +72.86 |
| 9 | Krisna Septiana | INA | 112.69 | 56 | 168.69 | +77.28 |
| 10 | Bijaya Majhi | NEP | 147.14 | 164 | 311.14 | +219.73 |
Women's C1: Huang Juan retains her Hangzhou title
Huang Juan won all three of her runs. She topped the heats with 121.57, just 0.26 seconds ahead of Haruka Okazaki. In the semi-final her margin over second-placed Duanglawa grew to 4.55 seconds. In the final she had the fastest raw time (112.84), and one touch took her score to 114.84.
She is the only Hangzhou medallist to finish in the same place again. Three years ago Ananyeva took silver and Okazaki bronze. In Toyota Okazaki did not reach the final: she was sixth in the semi, and Japan's one place in the final went to Aki Yazawa, who was fifth.
Silver went to Thailand's Atcharaporn Duanglawa, the C1 bronze medallist at the 2018 Games and fourth in 2023. Penalties decided it. Ananyeva was 0.53 seconds faster on the water (121.32 against 121.85) but collected 6 seconds of penalties to Duanglawa's 4, and the Thai paddler finished 1.47 seconds ahead.
Closest to the podium was Aki Yazawa, the 2018 Asian Games K1 champion. She was the only finalist with a clean run, but her 128.25 left her fourth, 0.93 seconds behind Ananyeva. Yazawa is also racing K1 in Toyota and has the semi-final on Thursday.
India's Pallavi Jagtap was disqualified in the final and has no place in the classification.
Women's C1 final results
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Penalties (s) | Score | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huang Juan | CHN | 112.84 | 2 | 114.84 | — |
| 2 | Atcharaporn Duanglawa | THA | 121.85 | 4 | 125.85 | +11.01 |
| 3 | Anastassiya Ananyeva | KAZ | 121.32 | 6 | 127.32 | +12.48 |
| 4 | Aki Yazawa | JPN | 128.25 | 0 | 128.25 | +13.41 |
| 5 | Chung Yu-han | TPE | 129.36 | 4 | 133.36 | +18.52 |
| 6 | Putu Santhi | INA | 145.40 | 54 | 199.40 | +84.56 |
| — | Pallavi Jagtap | IND | — | — | DSQ | — |
Penalties in the finals: no effect on the K1 podium, decisive for C1 silver
Three of the ten men in the K1 final went clean: Hu, Tanaka and Korobov. They also had the three fastest raw times, so the podium would have been the same without penalties. The other seven all touched poles, and three of them also picked up a 50. Thailand's Piyanath Koetsuk covered the course in 112.27, faster than sixth-placed Rathod and seventh-placed Baek, but 52 seconds of penalties dropped him to eighth.
In the women's C1 only Yazawa went clean, and she still missed the medals. Huang's raw time was 8.48 seconds better than the next best, Ananyeva's, so a single touch made no difference to her.
The heats decided nothing, as every classified paddler advanced to the semi-finals. Tanaka and Korobov each took a 50 there and placed 11th and 12th, yet both ended up on the podium.
China wins K1 and C1 gold for the third Games in a row
China has won the men's K1 at the last three Games, and Japan has taken silver every time: Adachi in 2018, Tanaka in 2023 and 2026. Quan Xin won the first two, Hu Zhaoshan the third. The bronzes went to three different countries.
| Year | Men's K1 gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Quan Xin (CHN) | Kazuya Adachi (JPN) | Hermann Husslein (THA) |
| 2023 | Quan Xin (CHN) | Yuuki Tanaka (JPN) | Wu Shao-hsuan (TPE) |
| 2026 | Hu Zhaoshan (CHN) | Yuuki Tanaka (JPN) | Alexandr Korobov (KAZ) |
China has also won three straight women's C1 titles: Chen Shi in 2018, Huang Juan in 2023 and 2026. Duanglawa is back on the podium eight years after her first medal.
| Year | Women's C1 gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Chen Shi (CHN) | Chen Wei-han (TPE) | Atcharaporn Duanglawa (THA) |
| 2023 | Huang Juan (CHN) | Anastassiya Ananyeva (KAZ) | Haruka Okazaki (JPN) |
| 2026 | Huang Juan (CHN) | Atcharaporn Duanglawa (THA) | Anastassiya Ananyeva (KAZ) |
Times from different editions cannot be compared: the 2018 Games in Indonesia, Hangzhou in 2023 and Toyota this year all used different venues and courses.
What's next: men's C1, women's K1 and kayak cross
Thursday 1 October brings the semi-finals and finals of the last two individual events. The men's C1 semi-final starts at 10:30 local time (03:30 CEST) and the women's K1 semi-final at 11:06 (04:06 CEST). The men's C1 final is at 13:30 (06:30 CEST), the women's K1 final at 14:00 (07:00 CEST).
China's Zhang Zhicheng posted the best score in the men's C1 heats, 103.10 including 4 seconds of penalties. Second was Uzbekistan's Anvar Klevleev, the Hangzhou silver medallist, who went clean and finished 0.46 seconds back. Third, also clean, was Kazakhstan's Alexandr Kulikov with 107.25; he won bronze at both the 2018 and 2023 Games.
In the women's K1, Chinese Taipei's Chang Chu-han, the Hangzhou champion, won the heats with a clean 109.58. China's Chen Lin was second with a clean 111.20 and Japan's Kurumi Ito third with 116.64. Kazakhstan's Yekaterina Tarantseva, the 2023 bronze medallist, took 52 seconds of penalties and placed eighth.
Friday 2 October closes the canoe slalom programme with kayak cross. The women's time trials start at 11:00 local time (04:00 CEST), the men's at 11:30 (04:30 CEST), and the quarter-finals at 13:30 (06:30 CEST). The small finals are at 14:50 and 14:54 (07:50 and 07:54 CEST), and the women's and men's finals at 15:10 and 15:14 (08:10 and 08:14 CEST).
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won the men's K1 canoe slalom at the Asian Games 2026?
Hu Zhaoshan of China. He won the final on 30 September with a clean 91.41. Japan's Yuuki Tanaka took silver (92.87) and Kazakhstan's Alexandr Korobov bronze (94.48).
Who won the women's C1 canoe slalom at the Asian Games 2026?
Huang Juan of China, with 114.84 (112.84 on the water plus 2 seconds of penalties). Thailand's Atcharaporn Duanglawa was second (125.85) and Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Ananyeva third (127.32).
Which country leads the canoe slalom medal table?
After two finals China leads with two golds. Japan and Thailand have one silver each, and Kazakhstan has two bronzes.
Did Huang Juan defend her Hangzhou title?
Yes. She won the C1 in Hangzhou in 2023 with 107.71 and won again in Toyota, this time by 11.01 seconds. She is the only Hangzhou medallist to finish in the same place as in 2023.
Why did Quan Xin miss the K1 final?
The 2018 and 2023 champion was fourth in the semi-final with 96.83. Each country could send only one athlete to the final, and Hu Zhaoshan had the better score (92.41).
Did penalties decide the medals?
Not in the men's K1. The three medallists were the only clean finalists, but they also had the three fastest raw times. In the women's C1, penalties decided second and third place. Ananyeva was 0.53 seconds faster on the water than Duanglawa but took 2 more seconds of penalties and lost silver by 1.47.
When are the men's C1 and women's K1 finals?
On Thursday 1 October. The men's C1 final is at 13:30 local time (06:30 CEST) and the women's K1 final at 14:00 (07:00 CEST). The semi-finals start at 10:30 local time (03:30 CEST).
China ends the first day of finals with two golds. Two Hangzhou champions defended their titles on Wednesday, and only Huang Juan succeeded. On Thursday Chang Chu-han defends hers in the women's K1, while Hangzhou medallists Klevleev and Kulikov race for gold in the men's C1. Full run-by-run results are on the Asian Games 2026 canoe slalom page.