It has been quite the summer for Canadian Olympic gold medalist Katie Vincent of Mississauga, Ontario. At the 2025 International Canoe Federation Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan, Italy from August 20-23, the 29-year-old Vincent came away with three silver medals.
Vincent’s most notable medal at the World Championships came in the women’s C2 500 metres. That is because this event will take place at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Vincent teamed up with Zoe Wojtyk of Ottawa, Ontario and posted a second place time of 1:54.36.
Vincent and Wojtyk reached the podium by 0.72 seconds over Anhelina Bardanouskaya and Volha Klimava of the Individual Neutral Athletes, who had a fourth place time of 1:55.08. Liudmyla Luzan and Iryna Fedoriv of Ukraine won the gold medal with a time of 1:53.30. Angels Moreno and Viktoriia Yarchevska of Spain won the bronze medal with a time of 1:54.84.
Vincent’s other two silver medals at the World Championships came in the women’s C1 500 metres and women’s C1 5000 metres. For her career, she now has won 15 World Championship medals (nine gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals).
Vincent has won three Olympic medals in her career. She won gold in the women’s C1 200 metres at the 2004 Olympic Games in Paris, bronze in the women’s C2 500 metres at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 with Laurence Vincent Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, and bronze in the women’s C2 500 metres at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris with Sloan MacKenzie of Halifax, Nova Scotia.