The last day of the Canoeing World Championships, held in Duisburg (Germany), consolidated Spain as a power in this sport one year before the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. The canoeists belonging to the Universidad Católica de Murcia played a great role in the Spanish team.

The first medal on the last competition day in which a UCAM paddler took part came thanks to Rodrigo Germade who, together with his teammate Adrián del Río, won bronze in K2 500 metres category. This was achieved in a race in which they started very strongly and had to suffer and resist in the final metres to avoid not reaching the podium. Cayetano García and Pablo Martínez, both from the UCAM Murcia club, had a different race, but with the same end, in the C2 500m category. They had been saving their strength in the first part of the competition to perform a great comeback which earned them the bronze medal by 14 thousandths of a second.

Íñigo Peña and Bárbara Pardo also finished in third position in the mixed-gender K2 X 500m final, closing a great competition of the UCAM paddler in this World Championship. Paco Cubelos was the Spanish representative in the long K1 5,000m race and finished in the eighth position.