Olympic Hopes 2026 results: Hungary win 16 of the 52 titles in Bratislava

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2026-09-20T17:33:59+00:00

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Full competition results: Olympic Hopes Regatta

Hungary won 16 of the 52 titles at the Olympic Hopes Regatta 2026 in Bratislava, which closed on Sunday on the Zemník course with the twelve 5000 m finals. Four athletes finished the four days with three gold medals each, and one of them, Brazil's Lorrane Santos Souza, took five medals in all — more than anyone else in the regatta. Sixteen of the 40 nations entered reached the podium.

Hungary took a medal in 34 of the 52 events

The regatta hands out three medals in each of its 52 events: 156 in total, shared by 137 athletes, 57 of whom went home as champions. Hungary's 45 medals came from 34 different events, and its 16 titles split evenly between kayak and canoe — eight each.

Germany finished second with nine titles, five of them in the canoe. Brazil, with ten athletes entered, won seven, every one of them in the canoe. Canada, the only non-European team in the top four, won six titles, four of them in the canoe as well. Behind them the table thins out quickly: Slovakia, France, the Czech Republic and Poland each won two or more golds, while Moldova, Belgium, Italy and Spain left Bratislava with medals but no title.

Four athletes left Bratislava with three golds each

Santos Souza, born in 2009 and racing in the 17-year-old band, won the C1 500 m in 2:07.58, the C1 5000 m in 26:52.96 and the C2 500 m with Emille Santana Da Conceição in 2:05.04. She added silver in the C1 200 m and bronze in the C4, which makes five medals from five starts. In July she won the junior women's C1 500 m title at the ICF Junior and U23 World Championships in Halifax in 2:23.22.

Canada's Alexandra Sangster won the 16-year-old C1 200 m in 0:50.26 and the C1 5000 m by 37.51 seconds, then sat in the crew that took the C4 500 m ahead of France and Brazil. Her one defeat came in the C1 500 m, where she was beaten by Anna Trencsényi.

Trencsényi, also born in 2010, won that race in 2:09.85 and then went up an age group to take the 17-year-old C1 200 m in 0:47.77, 0.48 seconds ahead of Santos Souza. Her third title came in the C2 500 m with Zsófia Nikoletta Fodor. At the World Championships in Halifax in July she had finished third in the junior women's C1 500 m, racing against opponents up to two years older.

Vince Faragó-Tóth had the tidiest record of the four: three starts, three titles. The Hungarian won the 17-year-old C1 1000 m in 4:14.83 and both C2 races — 500 m and 1000 m — with Hunor Levente Haris.

Four of the six individual doubles came in the 16-year-old band

Doubling up in single boats was mostly a 16-year-old speciality. Adam Kišš won the K1 500 m and K1 1000 m for Slovakia, Canada's Elizabeth Fanok did the same in the women's races, and Brazil's Rafick Silva Dos Santos took the C1 500 m and C1 1000 m. Sangster's 200 m and 5000 m double came in the same age group; only Santos Souza (C1 500 m and 5000 m) and Trencsényi, who won across two bands, did it elsewhere.

France's two titles both went to Télio Le Petit

France left with two titles, both of them won by Télio Le Petit: the K2 500 m with Tao Zwiller on Friday in 1:34.55 and the 17-year-old K1 500 m on Saturday in 1:41.49. In Halifax he had taken K1 500 m bronze four hundredths behind the silver medallist.

Poland took ten medals, the hosts four titles

Maciej Bargiel and Bartosz Kulpa of KS GPower Gorzów won the 17-year-old K2 1000 m in 3:26.84 by 0.160 seconds — the narrowest winning margin of all 52 finals — holding off Germany's Tamilo Bach and Jannik Brehmer. On Sunday they were joined by Michał Słowiński and Szymon Witkowski for the K4 500 m, which Poland won in 1:26.63 ahead of Moldova and Italy. Bargiel and Kulpa also took silver in the K2 500 m. In Szeged in July, Bargiel had two bronzes from the Junior and U23 European Championships, in the K1 500 m and the K2 500 m.

Magdalena Turowska of Dojlidy Białystok was the only Polish athlete to win two individual medals: silver in the 15-year-old C1 200 m, 1.52 seconds behind Canada's Maelle Girard, and bronze in the C1 500 m. Kinga Chojnacka and Milena Włodarczyk finished second in the 17-year-old K2 500 m, 0.675 seconds behind Panni Hudi-Kadler and Helka Borbála Németh, and both were in the K4 that took bronze with Martyna Kowalska and Zofia Maczkowska. The remaining bronzes went to Milena Janiak over 1000 m, Mikołaj Kleist over 5000 m and Maczkowska, also over 5000 m. Ten medals from ten different events.

Slovakia won four titles at home, all in the kayak

The hosts' five medals came from four athletes. Kišš took the two 16-year-old kayak titles, Tomáš Kocúr won the 17-year-old K1 5000 m in 20:50.79 — the fastest time of any 5000 m race in Bratislava — and Paulína Sůvová of KRK Vinohrady Bratislava won the 15-year-old women's K1 5000 m in 23:51.18. Martin Uhrík added silver over the same distance in the men's field. Slovakia was the only nation in the top eight of the table without a single bronze.

Sunday's 5000 m races left 63 boats without a classification

The long-distance programme closed the regatta and thinned it out. Of the 340 boats entered in the twelve 5000 m finals, 332 started and 269 were classified: 42 were disqualified and 21 did not finish. The men's C1 for 16-year-olds was the extreme case — 22 boats started, five were classified, and Moritz Kebelmann won it by 66.88 seconds, the largest winning margin of the regatta. The trouble was unevenly spread: 35 of the 42 disqualifications and 14 of the 21 non-finishes came in the boys' races.

Nothing like that happened over the shorter distances. Across the 200 m, 500 m and 1000 m finals, only two boats failed to finish, and none was disqualified.

The margins: 0.160 s, then two finals at 0.240 s

Behind the Polish K2, two finals were decided by 0.240 seconds. Brazil's Nicolas Emanuel Oliveira Da Luz won the 15-year-old C1 1000 m from Hungary's Ádám Kovács in 4:27.18, and Fanok beat Emma Kramer-Boga by the same margin in the K1 500 m. Julie Matilde Fabricius gave Denmark its only title in the 15-year-old K1 500 m, 0.320 seconds ahead of Nedda Ágh, who had won the K1 1000 m the day before.

Every champion in Bratislava

What's next for the Bratislava field

Olympic Hopes closes the season for the 15 to 17-year-olds, and next year the age bands move up with them: Sunday's 15-year-old champions will race the 16-year-old programme in 2027, and the 2009-born group leaves the regatta behind altogether. Several of them have already made the step — Santos Souza, Trencsényi, Grace Theunissen and Bargiel all raced the junior World Championships in Halifax in July, and Le Petit won a medal there.

That is where their next comparison will come from. The gap between an Olympic Hopes title and a junior world medal is smaller than the age bands suggest: Trencsényi finished third in Halifax against opponents up to two years older, and Santos Souza won there. Anyone who followed the regatta from the entry lists in the preview will recognise most of the names on next summer's start lists.

Frequently asked questions

Who won the most medals at Olympic Hopes 2026?

Lorrane Santos Souza of Brazil, with five: three golds (C1 500 m, C1 5000 m, C2 500 m), silver in the C1 200 m and bronze in the C4 500 m, all in the 17-year-old band.

Which nation won the medal table?

Hungary, with 16 titles and 45 medals in total. Germany was second with nine titles, Brazil third with seven.

Which final was the closest?

The 17-year-old men's K2 1000 m, where Maciej Bargiel and Bartosz Kulpa won by 0.160 seconds. Two more finals were settled by 0.240 seconds.

What was the fastest 5000 m time of the regatta?

Tomáš Kocúr's 20:50.79 in the 17-year-old men's K1, the only sub-21-minute race of the twelve held on Sunday.

How many boats were not classified in the 5000 m races?

Of the 332 that started, 269 were classified. Forty-two boats were disqualified and 21 did not finish; the 16-year-old men's C1 ended with five boats classified out of 22.

Did Hungary dominate the regatta?

Not quite. Hungary won 16 of the 52 titles, under a third, and 12 different nations won at least one. What set the Hungarians apart was range rather than dominance: medals in 34 of the 52 events, and their golds split eight in the kayak and eight in the canoe.

Which age band produced the most double champions?

The 16-year-olds. Four of the six athletes who won two individual distances — Kišš, Fanok, Silva Dos Santos and Sangster — were racing in it, and Trencsényi, born in 2010, won the 200 m in the 17-year-old band as well.

Did Poland's medals come from more than one crew?

Eleven Polish athletes won a medal, and the ten medals came in ten different events. Both titles, though, went to the Gorzów pair of Bargiel and Kulpa, in the K2 1000 m and in the K4 500 m alongside Słowiński and Witkowski.

Hungary led the medal table from the first finals on Friday and was never caught. The names to carry forward are Santos Souza, who won three of the five events she started, Alexandra Sangster, unbeaten except by Trencsényi, and the Polish K2 that won by 0.160 seconds. Full results, race by race, are on the Olympic Hopes Regatta 2026 event page.

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