It is set to be the first World Cup competition on a full scale since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 500 athletes from 50 countries entering.

Among them, three Ukrainian teams are set to race at the event in the Czech Republic.

With travel restrictions easing, it looks as if New Zealand's five-time Olympic gold medallist Dame Lisa Carrington and Australian K2 1,000 metres Tokyo 2020 gold medallists Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen are to compete on the circuit for the first time since 2009.

Alicia Hoskin is the new partner of Carrington in the K2 500m.

Brazilian men's C1 1,000m Olympic champion Isaquias dos Santos leads a high-quality entry list which includes the top six from Tokyo 2020.

China's Olympic gold medal duo Shixiao Xu and Mengya Sun return in the women's C2 500m, as do world champions Liudmyla Luzan and Anastasiia Chetverikova from Ukraine.

Germany and Spain, the top two in the men's K4 500m Olympic final, are due to be in action with two-time World Championship gold medallist Jacob Schopf coming into the Olympic gold medal-winning squad.

Schopf goes individually in the men's K1 1,000m too alongside Olympic bronze medallist Fernando Pimenta of Portugal.

Five-time world champion Laurence Vincent Lapointe has recently retired, meaning Canadian team-mate Katie Vincent has been handed over the baton in the women's C1 200m.

Competition begins tomorrow and ends on Sunday (May 21).