Seven years after organizing the first international canoe sprint event, in 2012, portugal received for the first time the senior and paracanoe world championships in august 2018.

This event was the culimination of a cycle of successful organizations in the high-performance center of montemor-o-velho and at the same time certainly the start of a new pattern in this discipline. Then we were back in 2021 during the covid-19 pandemic with a very successful juniors & under23 woirld championships with more than 70 countries.

More than 10 years later we organized once again, in the year of 2023 the european championships for juniors & under 23.  

This year we are back for the 2025 ICF JUNIOR & UNDER CANOE SPRINT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS together with the Masters Sprint Worlds in the week After. The month of July will be busy in Montemor-o-Velho.