German canoeist (born 1999)
Noah Hegge
Hegge in 2022
Personal information Nationality German Born (1999-03-15 ) 15 March 1999 (age 26) [ 1] Home town Augsburg , Germany[ 2] Sport Country Germany Sport Canoe slalom Rank No. 42 (K1)[ 3] Event
K1, Kayak cross Club Kanu Schwaben Augsburg[ 4]
Noah Hegge (born 15 March 1999) is a Germanslalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2016.[ 5] Hegge competes in K1 and kayak cross.[ 6]
He competed at the2024 Summer Olympics inParis where he won a bronze medal inkayak cross and finished 9th in theK1 event .
Hegge won a gold medal in the K1 team event at the2022 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships inAugsburg . He also won one gold and one bronze medal in the K1 team event at theEuropean Championships .
He has won three medals in the K1 team event at theJunior and U23 World Championships , with a gold in2017 , a silver in2016 (both junior), and a bronze in2021 (U23).[ 7] Hegge is also a two-time European Champion in K1 team, winning gold at both the2020 U23 European Championships inKraków and2016 Junior European Championships inSolkan .[ 6] He finished 11th in the overallWorld Cup standings in2021 .[ 8] Hegge earned his best senior World Championship result of 6th at the2021 event , where Germany fielded all three athletes in the final for the first time since1995 .[ 9]
Hegge began paddling with Kanu Schwaben Augsburg in 2007, following his older brothers into the sport.[ 10] [ 4] In 2018 he finished his apprenticeship as a pastry chef, and was accepted into theSportfördergruppe der Bundeswehr [de ] , allowing him to commit to his slalom career.[ 2] [ 1]
He lives and trains inAugsburg , home of theEiskanal .[ 11]
World Cup individual podiums [ edit ] Season Date Venue Position Event 2025 13 June 2025 Pau 1st K1 5 September 2025 Augsburg 2nd K1
Complete World Cup results [ edit ] Complete Championship results [ edit ]
1949 (folding): Switzerland (Werner Zimmermann ,Jean Engler &Eduard Kunz ) 1951 (folding): Austria (Hans Frühwirth ,Rudolf Pillwein &Othmar Eiterer ) 1953 (folding): Austria (Franz Grafetsberger ,Hans Herbist &Rudolf Sausgruber ) 1955 (folding): West Germany (Manfred Vogt ,Sigi Holzbauer &Alois Würfmannsdobler ) 1957 (folding): East Germany (Heinz Bielig ,Eberhard Gläser &Reinhard Sens ) 1959 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser ,Heinz Bielig &Günther Möbius ) 1961 (folding): East Germany (Horst Wängler ,Eberhard Gläser &Roland Hahnebach ) 1963 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser ,Rolf Luber &Fritz Lange ) 1965: West Germany (Manfred Vogt ,Eugen Weimann &Horst Dieter Engelke ) 1967: East Germany (Jürgen Bremer ,Christian Döring &Volkmar Fleischer ) 1969: France (Patrick Maccari ,Claude Peschier &Alain Colombe ) 1971: Austria (Kurt Presslmayr ,Norbert Sattler &Hans Schlecht ) 1973: East Germany (Wolfgang Büchner ,Siegbert Horn &Christian Döring ) 1975: West Germany (Ulrich Peters ,Dieter Förstl &Bernd Dichtl ) 1977: France (Jean-Yves Prigent ,Bernard Renault &Christian Frossard ) 1979: Great Britain (Richard Fox ,Albert Kerr &Allan Edge ) 1981: Great Britain (Richard Fox ,Albert Kerr &Nicolas Wain ) 1983: Great Britain (Richard Fox ,Paul McConkey &Jim Dolan ) 1985: West Germany (Peter Micheler ,Toni Prijon &Jürgen Kübler ) 1987: Great Britain (Richard Fox ,Melvyn Jones &Russell Smith ) 1989: Yugoslavia (Jernej Abramič ,Marjan Štrukelj &Albin Čižman ) 1991: France (Manuel Brissaud ,Gilles Clouzeau &Jean-Michel Regnier ) 1993: Great Britain (Richard Fox ,Melvyn Jones &Shaun Pearce ) 1995: Germany (Jochen Lettmann ,Thomas Becker &Oliver Fix ) 1997: Great Britain (Paul Ratcliffe ,Ian Raspin , &Shaun Pearce ) 1999: Germany (Thomas Becker ,Ralf Schaberg &Jakobus Stenglein ) 2002: Germany (Claus Suchanek ,Thomas Becker &Thomas Schmidt ) 2003: Switzerland (Thomas Mosimann ,Mathias Röthenmund &Michael Kurt ) 2005: France (Julien Billaut ,Fabien Lefèvre &Benoît Peschier ) 2006: France (Fabien Lefèvre ,Julien Billaut &Boris Neveu ) 2007: Germany (Fabian Dörfler ,Alexander Grimm &Erik Pfannmöller ) 2009: Czech Republic (Ivan Pišvejc ,Vavřinec Hradilek &Michal Buchtel ) 2010: Germany (Alexander Grimm ,Fabian Dörfler &Hannes Aigner ) 2011: Germany (Sebastian Schubert ,Hannes Aigner &Alexander Grimm ) 2013: Italy (Daniele Molmenti ,Andrea Romeo &Giovanni De Gennaro ) 2014: France (Mathieu Biazizzo ,Sébastien Combot &Boris Neveu ) 2015: Czech Republic (Jiří Prskavec ,Vavřinec Hradilek &Ondřej Tunka ) 2017: Czech Republic (Jiří Prskavec ,Ondřej Tunka &Vít Přindiš ) 2018: Great Britain (Joseph Clarke ,Bradley Forbes-Cryans &Christopher Bowers ) 2019: Spain (David Llorente ,Samuel Hernanz &Joan Crespo ) 2021: France (Boris Neveu ,Mathieu Biazizzo &Benjamin Renia ) 2022: Germany (Hannes Aigner ,Noah Hegge &Stefan Hengst ) 2023: Czech Republic (Jiří Prskavec ,Vít Přindiš &Jakub Krejčí ) 2025: France (Titouan Castryck ,Benjamin Renia &Anatole Delassus )