This study evaluated the physiological measures and objective performance parameters by incremental exercise test in elite canoeists. Eight male national level canoeists (mean age: 18.8±2.8 years; height: 176 ± 6.4 cm; body mass index: 24.3±3.2) competing at the international level for Turkey, volunteered and gave their written informed consent to participate in this study, which was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee. The athletes underwent symptom limited incremental (starting at a power output of 20 W for 5 min then increasing by 15 W every 2 min until exhaustion 15 W) cardio-pulmonary exercise testing on a cycle ergometer. Peak oxygen consumption (pVO2), peak workload, heart rate reserve (obtained from age predicted heart rate maximum) at exhaustion. Exhaustion was deemed to have occurred when the participant could no longer maintain the test. Data are presented as means ± standard deviations. They had pVO2 of 46.21±6.02 ml/kg/min and peak workload of 224.4±27.6 Watt. The athletes have used <%90% of their maximum heart rate reserve at exhaustion. During the test the athletes spent total exercise duration time (including 5 min of warming up) of 18.9±1.9 min until exhaustion. This study revealed similar results for the Turkish Olympic Water Canoe Team to those of the international competitive canoeing athletes. This study was informative for the basal physiological performance parameters among these athletes and also would be useful for monitoring performance improvement through training.