The event took place from 24 to 29 September 2019 in La Seu d'Urgell, Catalonia, Spain under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF).
As is traditional in a pre-Olympic year, the Championships also doubled as the primary qualification event for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The top placed boats (subject to a limit of one per nation) earned their NOCs a qualification quota.
* Host nation (Spain)The 2019 World Championships also served as a main qualification event in each of the individual boat classes.
The following nations each qualified a boat in the stated event: Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Spain achieved qualification in all four classes, and thus joined host Japan in completing their qualification pathway for Canoe slalom at the 2020 Games.