The adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championship is truly unique as it brings together athletes from all the individual kayaking disciplines, extreme expedition paddlers, freestylers and Olympic slalom kayakers, to compete against one another on a world class stretch of whitewater. For the 10th anniversary edition almost all of the previous World Champions were at the start line, except for Joe Morley (2013/2014) und Sandra Hyslop (2016). And all of these six previous World Champions, namely Thilo Schmitt (2008), Alexander Grimm (2009), Sam Sutton (2010-2012), Gerd Serrasolses (2015), Aniol Serrasolses (2016) and Mariann Saether (2015), qualified for the actual World Championship battle on the 280-metre long Wellerbrücke race course, on which only the top 52 men and top 8 women are allowed to compete.

Results Top 5 Men

1. Sam Sutton (NZL)
2. Aniol Serrasolses (ESP)
3. Alexander Grimm (GER)
4. Dane Jackson (USA)
5. Mike Dawson (NZL)

Results Top 5 Women

1. Nouria Newman (FRA)
2. Martina Wegman (NED)
3. Jennifer Chrimes (GBR)
4. Anne Hübner (GER)
5. Marieke Vogt (AUT)