Polish Canoe Marathon Championships 2026: Olsztyn medal table
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- 2026-09-23T10:32:02+00:00
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Full competition results: 40th Polish Canoe Marathon Championships
2026 Polish Canoe Marathon Championships: KSC Olsztyn top the medal table
Six national championship gold medals put KSC Olsztyn at the top of the medal table on Lake Ukiel. Admira Gorzów won the most medals overall, with fourteen. The weekend's highlights included two victories for Wiktor Głazunow and a girls' K1 race decided by just two hundredths of a second.
52 clubs and 42 races
The 40th Polish Canoe Marathon Championships and the accompanying National Children's Regatta took place on Lake Ukiel in Olsztyn on 19–20 September 2026. Paddlers from 52 clubs competed in 42 races: 38 national championship events and four children's events.
The results recorded 355 entries across the programme. Of these, 17 were marked DNS (did not start), leaving 338 starts: 308 finishes and 30 DNFs (did not finish). These are totals across all events, not counts of unique paddlers or crews. A paddler or crew entered in more than one event is counted separately each time.
Paddlers from 36 clubs won national championship medals. Including the Children's Regatta, 38 clubs reached the podium — just over 73% of the clubs represented.
Leading clubs in the national championship medal table
| Place | Club | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KSC Olsztyn | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | KST Włókniarz Chełmża | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | KS Admira Gorzów | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 4 | MKS Czechowice-Dziedzice | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| =5 | UKS Olimpijczyk Nowe Chechło | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| =5 | KS Victoria Sztum | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
This table covers national championship events only. Each podium finish counts as one medal for the club, including in K2 and C2. Clubs are ranked by gold, then silver and bronze medals. This is a medal table, not a points classification.
KSC Olsztyn also took gold through Pola Grabowska in the Children's Regatta. Across both competitions, the hosts therefore finished with seven golds, one silver and two bronzes.
Admira won the most medals, including eight silvers. Four of their runners-up finished less than eight seconds behind the winner, with the smallest margin just 0.02 seconds. In the senior men's K1 short race, Admira took both first and second through Sławomir Siwiec and Wojciech Ratajczak.
Two titles for Głazunow, three medals each for Stasiełowicz and Szczęsna
Wiktor Głazunow of KS AZS-AWF Gorzów won both senior men's C1 events. He completed Saturday's 3.5 km short race in 15:45.96 and Sunday's 21 km race in 1:53:00.28. Admira's Kyrylo Krasinskyi finished second in both, trailing by 7.39 seconds and 1:21.29 respectively.
Głazunow won the C1 5000 m world title in Samarkand in 2024, aged 30, with a time of 25:33.565. A year later, he took bronze over the same distance in Milan in 23:53.73. He also represented Poland at the Tokyo and Paris Olympic Games, as recorded in his Polish Olympic Committee profile.
In Olsztyn, Patryk Stasiełowicz of AZS KU Politechnika Opolska finished third in the 21 km C1 race, which included six portages. He was 8:28.22 behind Głazunow. Stasiełowicz ended the weekend with three medals: bronze in both C1 races and gold in the 21 km C2 alongside Mateusz Obacz.
Magdalena Szczęsna of KK Jezioro Tarnobrzeg also won three medals. She took silver in both senior women's K1 races and bronze in the mixed K2 short race. No paddler won more medals across the weekend.
Six KSC Olsztyn titles, five champions
Damian Zawistowski and Jakub Kawka, both born in 2008, each won two golds for the hosts. Zawistowski won the junior men's K1 short race in 16:18.18, then took the 18 km title the following day in 1:30:28.72. In the longer race, he finished 2.11 seconds ahead of Natan Kociołek of MKS Czechowice-Dziedzice.
Kawka won both junior men's C1 events, recording 18:08.03 in the short race and 1:42:52.49 over 18 km. KSC's other two national titles came through Lena Dąbrowska in the 12 km girls' K1 for paddlers born in 2014, and Ewa Basałygo and Julia Wądołowska in the girls' K2 for the 2013–2014 age group. Dąbrowska finished in 1:18:37.97, while the K2 pair recorded 1:05:28.35.
The club's six championship victories were therefore earned by three individual paddlers and one K2 crew — five athletes in total. The oldest medallist of the weekend also represented KSC: Jerzy Dunajski, born in 1957, took bronze in the masters men's C1 over 12 km.
Five golds for Włókniarz, fourteen medals for Admira
KST Włókniarz Chełmża's five titles came from two wins by Zuzanna Błażejczak and three K2 victories. Błażejczak won the senior women's short race in 15:54.76, then took the 21 km K1 title the following day in 1:58:34.91. Magdalena Szczęsna finished just 2.76 seconds behind her over the longer distance.
Natalia Skowrońska and Maja Łuczak won the senior women's K2 over 21 km. In the under-16 events, Julia Makuracka and Paulina Kuciak won the women's K2 over 15 km, while Maciej Klukowski and Igor Kozak won the men's K2 over 18 km.
Admira Gorzów won four titles. Sławomir Siwiec took the senior men's K1 short race, then partnered Wojciech Ratajczak to victory in the 27 km K2. Kyrylo Kurman and Hubert Puchalski won the junior men's K2 over 18 km, while Michał Chrobot won the 12 km boys' K1 for paddlers born in 2012.
MKS Czechowice-Dziedzice, AZS KU Politechnika Opolska and WTS Astoria Bydgoszcz each won seven national championship medals. Six of Astoria's medals came in canoe events, including Blanka Pegza's under-16 women's C1 gold. Czechowice-Dziedzice's Elvira Mykhailova and Sviatoslav Verkhola won the mixed K2 short race, finishing 2.77 seconds ahead of Anna Mielnik and Wojciech Mielnik of Politechnika Opolska.
Two hundredths of a second after more than an hour of racing
The smallest winning margin came in Saturday's 12 km girls' K1 race for paddlers born in 2012. Zuzanna Bławat of UKS Kopernik Bydgoszcz won in 1:12:18.48, just 0.02 seconds ahead of Roksana Lankamer. Honorata Gontarczyk finished third, 1.85 seconds behind the winner. After more than an hour of racing, less than two seconds covered the entire podium.
| Event | Winner or winning crew | Winning margin |
|---|---|---|
| Girls' K1, born in 2012, 12 km | Zuzanna Bławat | 0.02 s |
| Under-16 men's K2, 18 km | Maciej Klukowski and Igor Kozak | 1.15 s |
| Junior men's K1, 18 km | Damian Zawistowski | 2.11 s |
| Senior men's K1 short race, 3.5 km | Sławomir Siwiec | 2.46 s |
| Senior women's K1, 21 km | Zuzanna Błażejczak | 2.76 s |
On Sunday, Mieszko Zwoliński and Szymon Furga recorded identical times of 1:08:19.97 in the boys' K1 for paddlers born in 2013. They were nevertheless ranked separately: Zwoliński second and Furga third. The result was not a dead heat.
Only four of the eight starters finished the senior men's 27 km K1. Marcin Grzechowski of KS AZS-AWF Poznań won in 2:22:02.28, beating Wiktor Żarski by 7.77 seconds. Karol Wyrwicz took bronze. Siwiec and Ratajczak did not finish, but returned the following day to win the K2 over the same distance in 2:11:07.33.
The largest field was in the under-16 men's 18 km K1: 25 paddlers were entered, 24 started and 22 finished. Illia Kamenskyi of UKS Motława Gdańsk won in 1:38:30.59, 3.08 seconds ahead of Rafał Stańczewski. The masters men's 15 km K1 had 19 entries and 18 starters. Adam Wysocki won in 1:22:33.41, with Dariusz Bukowski 7.02 seconds behind.
Six double national champions
Wiktor Głazunow, Zuzanna Błażejczak, Sławomir Siwiec, Damian Zawistowski, Jakub Kawka and Zuzanna Cyrek each won two national titles.
Cyrek, representing UKS Olimpijczyk Nowe Chechło, won both her races on Saturday: first the junior women's 18 km K1 in 1:51:07.05, then the short race in 18:41.43. Amelia Wiśniewska of UKS Kopernik Bydgoszcz took silver and bronze respectively, finishing 57.85 seconds behind Cyrek over 18 km and 13.35 seconds behind her in the short race.
Among the younger paddlers, Jan Wyrwicz won the boys' K1 for the 2013 age group by 2:39.86. Karol Nowik won the boys' C1 by 1:04.81, and Cezary Kasielski took the boys' K1 for the 2014 age group by 59.45 seconds.
The youngest winner of the weekend was Emilia Ostrowska, born in 2017, who won the girls' C1 in the National Children's Regatta. Her birth year and Jerzy Dunajski's are 60 years apart. Both stood on the podium at Lake Ukiel on Saturday.
Frequently asked questions
Which club topped the national championship medal table?
KSC Olsztyn, with six golds, one silver and two bronzes. Including the accompanying Children's Regatta, the club's total rose to seven golds and ten medals overall.
Who won the most medals?
KS Admira Gorzów won the most club medals, with fourteen. Patryk Stasiełowicz and Magdalena Szczęsna had the highest individual totals, with three medals each.
How many races were held?
There were 42 races: 38 national championship events and four National Children's Regatta events. The masters women's K1 is excluded because both entrants were marked DNS.
What does the total of 125 medals represent?
It counts podium finishes across both competitions: 114 in the national championships and 11 in the Children's Regatta. Counting each member of a K2 or C2 crew separately, the results represent 158 individual medal awards, including 147 in the national championships.
How did the short race differ from the classic marathon?
The K1 and C1 short races covered 3.5 km with one portage. The classic national championship races ranged from 6 to 27 km. The programme specified eight portages for the longest course — sections where paddlers leave the water and carry their boats on land.
Full results are available on the 40th Polish Canoe Marathon Championships page on PaddleStats. The statistics were compiled from PaddleStats results checked on 23 September 2026. The racing dates and programme are also documented by DomTel-Sport.