Self-Reported

Most of these reports have come from the Paddler's Pod because they started asking the question - Paddler's Pod Website - they ask interviewees what their fastest 1 km has been. It seems like many if not most of these times were simply experienced during great downwind runs or surf outings and not when these paddlers were intentionally trying to produce the fastest 1 km they are capable of hitting.

• 2:10 Jasper Mocke 2022 SS1 Surfing a large wave he discovered in Jeffries Bay - podcast
• 2:40 Hank Macgregor & Lee Furby SS2 - podcast
• 2:47 Kenny Rice & Nick Notten SS2 reported by FHBSC
• 2:49 Nick Notten SS1 podcast
• 2:49 Boyan Zlaterev website splits
• 2:50 on a wave?, 3:22 downwind? Judith Verges Xifra SS1podcast
• 2:51 Kenny Rice SS1 podcast
• 2:51 Gordan Harbrecht SS1 podcast
• 2:51 Fergus Morgan SS1 podcast
• 2:51 Oscar Chalupsky SS1 podcast (2:45?)
• 2:53 Dawid Mocke SS1 podcast
• Low 2:50s Sean Rice SS1 podcast
• 2:57 Austin Keiffer SS1 podcast
• 2:58 Valentin Henot SS1 podcast
• 2:58 Clint Robinson SS1 podcast
• 3:00 Cory Hill SS1 podcast
• 3:08 Jackson Collins SS1 podcast
• 3:08 - 3:10? Tom Norton SS1 podcast
• 3:08 Wilson Reavley SS1 video
• 3:15 Ana Swetish SS1 podcast
• 3:15 Michelle Burn SS1 podcast
• 3:15 - 3:30? Teneale Hatton SS1 podcast (her 3:48 is still women's K1 1km world record as of mid 2022)
• 3:23 Adam Fahey OC1 split shown in Mussel Farm DW video
• 3:26 Danielle McKenzie SS1 podcast
• 3:30? Bonnie Hancock SS1 podcast
• 3:39 Jemma Smith SS1 podcast
• Low 3's Michael Booth SS1 podcast
• Low 3's Mitchell Trim SS1 podcast
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World Records Sprint Kayak

• Wikipedia List - scroll down to see various 1000 m (1km) records, as of 2022 the fastest listed is Mens K4 = 2:46.724
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