Final Day at the World Rafting Championships in Aluminé, Argentina: today featured the Slalom discipline, a true test of technique and river experience. Team coordination and preparation were essential to face the 10 gate course – 5 red upstream and 5 green downstream gates – that challenged the 80 teams competing.
The Slalom results, the third and final discipline after Downriver and RX, awarded the last crucial points for the overall standings.
SLALOM
MEN
AIN 1 (Andrey Degtyarev, Roman Shmalts, Dmitri Akchin, Kirill Talpa, Andrey Koviazin)
Italy 2 (Christian Biava, Matteo Cerrano, Ludovico Cuignon, Nicolò Balma)
AIN 2 (Anton Kuznetsov, Denis Savchenkov, Petr Tkachev, Nikita Kucherov)
MIX
Japan 1 (Kurumi Tomisawa, Yuta Fujikawa, Masayo Abe, Satoshi Koizumi)
AIN 1 (Andrey Degtyarev, Kirill Talpa, Elizaveta Barneva, Ekaterina Kozhanova, Tamara Chugonova))
Italy 2 (Silvia Venturini, Christian Biava, Nina Roggiery, Matteo Cerrano, Michelle De Paris)
WOMEN
AIN 1 (Elizaveta Barneva, Ekaterina Kozhanova, Tamara Chugunova, Vera Malakhova, Valentina Kozhanova)
Japan 1 (Takae Mori, Rikako Yamakawa, Rie Funada, Chika Ogawa, Yuki Saito)
Canada 1 (Marie-Clara Tremblay, Léa Poulin, Béatrice Provencher, Véronique Delisle)
PARA-RAFTING
Italy 1 (Riccardo Novella, Rosario Sperandini, Riccardo Colombo, Zeno Martini)
Brasil 1 (Ariel Ton, Paulo Righeto Scantimburgo, Thiago Diniz Barne Ganeo, Rafael Mahn Iori, Francisco Kess)
Colombia 1 (Jesús David Acevedo Arenas, Edwin Andres Rueda Duarte, Jorge Arturo Rios Caceres, Norberto De Jesus Jaimes Valbuena)
Based on the points earned today, the titles of Overall World Champions 2025 go to
OVERALL: WORLD RAFTING CHAMPIONS 2025
MEN
Brasil 2 (Lucas Da Silva, Angelo Degrandi, Saulo Quirino, Paulo Righeto Scantimburgo, Thiago Diniz Barne Ganeo) with 260 points
AIN 1 (Andrey Degtyarev, Roman Shmalts, Dmitry Akchin, Kirill Talpa, Andrey Koviazin) with 244 points
Brasil 1 (Gabriel Pessa, Fernando Antônio Morassutti, Joao Luiz Rodrigues Junior, Antonio José, Martim Salvatti, Pedro Aversa) with 234 points
WOMEN
AIN 1 (Elizaveta Barneva, Ekaterina Kozhanova, Tamara Chugunova, Vera Malakhova, Valentina Kozhanova) with 300 points
Japan 1 (Takae Mori, Rikako Yamakawa, Rie Funada, Chika Ogawa, Yuki Saito) with 246 points
Argentina 1 (Abril Sotelo, Romina Florencia Celentano, Rocío Aldana Sepúlveda, Eliana Jaquelina Ojeda) with 233 points
MIX
AIN 2 (Valentina Kozhanova, Vera Malakhova, Dmitry Akchin, Андрей Ковязин) with 270 points
Japan 1 (Kurumi Tomisawa, Massayo Abe, Satoshi Koizumi, Yuta Fujikawa) with with 256 points
AIN 1 (Andrey Degtyarev, Ekaterina Kozhanova, Tamara Chugunova, Kirill Talpa, Roman Shmalts) with 233 points
PARA-RAFTING
Brazil 1 (Ariel Ton, Paulo Righeto Scantimburgo, Thiago Diniz Barne Ganeo, Rafael Mahn Iori, Francisco Kess) with 290 points
Italy 1 (Riccardo Novella, Rosario Sperandini, Riccardo Novella and Zeno Martini) with with 280 points
Colombia 1 (Jesús David Acevedo Arenas, Edwin Andres Rueda Duarte, Jorge Arturo Rios Caceres, Norberto De Jesus Jaimes Valbuena) with 240 points
The full final results, with detailed scores and team rankings are available at the link below:
https://cronometrajeinstantaneo.com/resultados/2025-world-rafting-championships-points/categorias
