Canada’s Sophia Jensen secured her first world title at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships held in Poznań, Poland. The 24-year-old athlete from Chelsea, Que., clinched the gold medal in the women’s C1 500-meter final with a winning time of 2:00.78. Agnes Anna Kiss from Hungary took the silver medal with a time of 2:02.80, while Belarusian Alena Nazdrova claimed the bronze in 2:04.80.
Apart from Jensen’s victory, another Canadian athlete, Brianna Hennessy from Ottawa, also made the country proud by winning the bronze in the KL1 women’s 200m final, finishing with a time of 54.20 seconds. The gold medal in this event was secured by Chilean Paralympic champion Katherinne Wollermann with a time of 52.23, followed by China’s Maosan Xie who took the silver with a time of 53.92.
