MEN'S SENIOR
K-1
10,000m
5000m
  Kayak Singles
 
New York Athletic Club Trophy (Identified missing 1967)
 
Recordi10,000m
1972
39:49.0
CANADA
Robert Logodi
 
Recordi5000m
2012
19:56.87
BRAZIL
Celso de Oliveira Jr.
 
  Year   Time First Place Second Place Third Place
 
  1966   50:42.0 Gabor Joo Kenneth Wilson Jim Simonyik
        CANADA UNITED STATES CANADA
  1967   44:15.2 Jim Simonyik John Pickett Peter Biller
        CANADA UNITED STATES CANADA
  1968   49.04.2 John Pickett Attila Libertini Wolfgang Ruck
        UNITED STATES UNITED STATES CANADA
  1969   47:28 Glynn Horton Wolfgang Ruck J. Van Dyke
        CANADA CANADA UNITED STATES
  1970   51:12.4 Leif Jorgenson Frank Bartik R. Mitchell
        CANADA CANADA UNITED STATES
  1971   46:39.9 Dean Oldershaw T. Ralphs Nils Oritsland
        CANADA UNITED STATES CANADA
  1972   39:49.0 Robert Logodi Lajos Tollas Dennis Ring
        CANADA CANADA CANADA
  1973   45:39.9 Dean Oldershaw Steve Sziraki W. Leach
        CANADA CANADA UNITED STATES
  1974   43:13.0 Reed Oldershaw B. Barton No Third Place
        CANADA UNITED STATES    
                   
  1975   Championships suspended for Canoe Canada 75
  1976   Championships suspended for Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada
                   
  1977   No Time S. Kelly Reed Oldershaw D. Gilman
        UNITED STATES CANADA UNITED STATES
                   
  North American Championships dissolved. Pan American Championships begin.
                   
  1978   Race suspended
                   
  1979   Race suspended
                   
  1980   45:23.8 J. L. Colome J. Stige Greg Barton
        CUBA NORWAY UNITED STATES
  1981   49:02.59 D. Schurrenberger Donald Brien C. Spelius
        UNITED STATES CANADA UNITED STATES
  1982   46:35.8 J. L. Garcia G. Lao Keith Mercer
        CUBA CUBA CANADA
  1983   47:19.8 B. Turner Carl Beaumier C. Hewitt
        UNITED STATES CANADA UNITED STATES
  1984   Championships suspended for Olympic Games, Los Angeles, USA
                   
  1985   44:54.5 Greg Barton Terry White Atilio Vazquez
        UNITED STATES UNITED STATES ARGENTINA
  1986   46:34.29 Greg Barton Fernando Chaparro Norman Bellingham
        UNITED STATES ARGENTINA UNITED STATES
  1987   Pan American Games in Indianapolis, USA
                   
  1988   46:14.861 Hugh Fisher Bill Trayling M. Zollitsch
        CANADA CANADA UNITED STATES
                   
  1989-1999 No available data. Championships may not have been staged during this period.
                   
  2000-2010 Race suspended
                   
  2011   Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico
                   
  Race distance changed from 10,000m to 5000m
                   
  2012   19:56.870 Celso de Oliveira Jr. Juan Caceres Jesus Colmenarez
        BRAZIL ARGENTINA VENEZUELA
  2013          
                   
  2014   24:51.22 Marshall Hughes Jose Garcia Osbaldo Juarez
        CANADA CUBA MEXICO
  2015   Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada
                   
  2016   Race suspended