British slalom canoeist
Kimberley Woods
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Nationality | British |
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Born | (1995-09-08) 8 September 1995 (age 28) Rugby, England |
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Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
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Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
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Country | Great Britain |
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Sport | Canoe slalom |
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Event | C1, K1, Kayak cross |
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Club | Rugby Canoe Club |
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Kimberley Woods (born 8 September 1995) is a British slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2011.[1]
She has won 13 medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with six golds (Kayak cross: 2023; C1 team: 2017, 2018, 2023; K1 team: 2019, 2021), three silvers (C1: 2023; Kayak cross: 2022; K1 team: 2015) and four bronzes (K1: 2021; C1 team: 2022; K1 team: 2018, 2023).[2] She has also won 13 medals (8 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes) at the European Championships, including a silver in the C1 team event at the 2023 European Games in Kraków.
Woods won the overall World Cup title in Kayak cross in 2023.
She qualified to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the Women's K1 event[3] where she finished in 10th place.
World Champions in Women's Canoe Slalom C1 team
World Champions in Women's Canoe Slalom Kayak Cross
World Champions in Women's Canoe Slalom K1 team
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- 1949 (folding): Austria (Heidi Pillwein, Fritzi Schwingl & Gerti Pertlwieser)
- 1951 (folding): Austria (Gerti Pertlwieser, Fritzi Schwingl & Heidi Pillwein)
- 1953 (folding): Czechoslovakia (Jaroslava Havlová, Dana Martanová & Květa Havlová)
- 1955 (folding): East Germany (Eva Setzkorn, Elfriede Hugo & Karin Tietze)
- 1957 (folding): East Germany (Elfriede Hugo, Eva Setzkorn & Brigitte Magnus)
- 1959 (folding): East Germany (Ursula Gläser, Eva Setzkorn & Elfriede Hugo)
- 1961 (folding): Not held
- 1963 (folding): East Germany (Anneliese Bauer, Ursula Gläser & Lia Merkel)
- 1965: East Germany (Ursula Gläser, Bärbel Richter & Lia Merkel)
- 1967: East Germany (Bärbel Richter, Dagmar Sickert & Helga Luber)
- 1969: West Germany (Ulrike Deppe, Bärbel Körner & Brigitte Schwack)
- 1971: East Germany (Angelika Bahmann, Veronika Stampe & Dagmar Kriste)
- 1973: United States (Louise Holcombe, Lyn Ashton & Candice Clark)
- 1975: Switzerland (Elisabeth Käser, Danielle Kamber & Cornelia Bachofner)
- 1977: Switzerland (Elisabeth Käser, Kathrin Weiss & Claire Costa)
- 1979: United States (Cathy Hearn, Linda Harrison & Becky Judd)
- 1981: West Germany (Ulrike Deppe, Susanne Erbers & Gabriele Köllmann)
- 1983: France (Marie-Françoise Grange, Sylvie Arnaud & Myriam Jerusalmi)
- 1985: France (Sylvie Arnaud, Marie-Françoise Grange & Myriam Jerusalmi)
- 1987: West Germany (Margit Messelhäuser, Ulla Steinle & Elisabeth Micheler)
- 1989: France (Myriam Jerusalmi, Marie-Françoise Grange-Prigent & Anne Boixel)
- 1991: France (Myriam Jerusalmi, Anouk Loubie & Marianne Agulhon)
- 1993: France (Myriam Jerusalmi, Sylvie Lepeltier & Anne Boixel)
- 1995: France (Anne Boixel, Myriam Jerusalmi & Isabelle Despres)
- 1997: Germany (Evi Huss, Kordula Striepecke & Mandy Planert)
- 1999: Germany (Susanne Hirt, Evi Huss & Mandy Planert)
- 2002: France (Aline Tornare, Mathilde Pichery & Anne-Lise Bardet)
- 2003: Czech Republic (Štěpánka Hilgertová, Vanda Semerádová & Irena Pavelková)
- 2005: Czech Republic (Irena Pavelková, Marcela Sadilová & Štěpánka Hilgertová)
- 2006: France (Mathilde Pichery, Émilie Fer & Marie Gaspard)
- 2007: Germany (Jennifer Bongardt, Mandy Planert & Jasmin Schornberg)
- 2009: Great Britain (Lizzie Neave, Louise Donington & Laura Blakeman)
- 2010: Czech Republic (Štěpánka Hilgertová, Irena Pavelková & Marie Řihošková)
- 2011: Slovakia (Elena Kaliská, Jana Dukátová & Dana Mann)
- 2013: Czech Republic (Štěpánka Hilgertová, Kateřina Minařík Kudějová & Eva Ornstová)
- 2014: France (Carole Bouzidi, Nouria Newman & Émilie Fer)
- 2015: Czech Republic (Kateřina Minařík Kudějová, Veronika Vojtová & Štěpánka Hilgertová)
- 2017: Germany (Jasmin Schornberg, Ricarda Funk & Lisa Fritsche)
- 2018: France (Lucie Baudu, Marie-Zélia Lafont & Camille Prigent)
- 2019: Great Britain (Mallory Franklin, Fiona Pennie & Kimberley Woods)
- 2021: Great Britain (Kimberley Woods, Fiona Pennie & Mallory Franklin)
- 2022: Germany (Ricarda Funk, Elena Lilik & Jasmin Schornberg)
- 2023: Australia (Jessica Fox, Noemie Fox & Kate Eckhardt)
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