Stevelys medal at Junior Wild Water World Championships

July 4, 2025

There was a medal milestone as Great Britain toasted more success at the ICF Junior and U23 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships in Slovenia.

On Thursday, the junior Men's K1 team of Will and Sam Stevely and Malachi Grant won Britain's first MK1 team medal since 1993 with a superb bronze.


It left Britain fourth on the medal table at the end of the classic competition, with five medals.


Having missed out on an individual medal by less than two seconds on day one, Will put that to bed in style in the Junior Men's K1 with his brother Sam and Malachi Grant.


Sitting fifth at the midway split, four seconds off the third-placed team, the trio stormed to a time of 16min 35.31secs, pipping the fourth-placed Italians by just nine-tenths of a second.


“I was the pace boat in the team and just had to make sure the pace was nice and consistent for everyone to follow,” said Will.

“After halfway we did increase it a bit to keep it moving nicely and it worked.


“It's a great reward for all of the hard work we've put in over the last couple of years.”


Team Manager Jamie Christie said: “Will performed really well to get fourth in day one and he was slightly disappointed, but put that right today.


“They pulled really well as a team and worked together exceptionally well. It's been a very, very good day.”


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