1958 World Canoe Sprint Championships

Host City Praha
Country TCH
Held 14 – 17 August 1958
Competitors 68
Countries 11

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
C-1 1000 m Men — Medal 3 2
C-1 10000 m Men — Medal 3 3
C-2 1000 m Men — Medal 6 3
C-2 10000 m Men — Medal 6 3
K-1 500 m Men — Medal 3 3
K-1 1000 m Men — Medal 3 3
K-1 10000 m Men — Medal 3 3
K-2 500 m Men — Medal 6 3
K-2 1000 m Men — Medal 6 2
K-2 10000 m Men — Medal 6 2
K-4 1000 m Men — Medal 12 3
K-4 10000 m Men — Medal 12 2
K-1 4 x 500 m relay Men — Medal 12 3
K-1 500 m Women — Medal 3 2
K-2 500 m Women — Medal 6 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 5 3 4 12
2 Germany GER 4 2 4 10
3 Poland POL 2 0 0 2
4 Hungary HUN 1 5 0 6
5 Romania ROU 1 1 1 3
6 Belgium BEL 1 0 0 1
= Finland FIN 1 0 0 1
8 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 3 2 5
9 Sweden SWE 0 1 2 3
10 Denmark DEN 0 0 1 1
= East Germany GDR 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
C-1 1000 m, Men Gennady Bukharin URS Jiří Vokněr TCH Yury Vinogradov URS
C-1 10000 m, Men Gennady Bukharin URS Jiří Vokněr TCH Nichifor Tarara ROU
C-2 1000 m, Men Dumitru Alexe / Simion Ismailciuc ROU László Simari / Lajos Bodnar HUN Jiří Kodeš / Václav Vokál TCH
C-2 10000 m, Men Stepan Oshchepkov / Aleksandr Silayev URS Achim Sidorov / Lavrente Calinov ROU Jiří Kodeš / Václav Vokál TCH
K-1 500 m, Men Stefan Kapłaniak POL Gert Fredriksson SWE Dieter Krause GDR
K-1 1000 m, Men Fritz Briel GER Ferenc Hatlaczky HUN Gert Fredriksson SWE
K-1 10000 m, Men Thorvald Strömberg FIN Ladislav Čepčianský TCH Vagn Schmidt DEN
K-2 500 m, Men Stefan Kapłaniak / Władysław Zieliński POL László Nagy / László Kovács HUN Meinrad Miltenberger / Paul Lange GER
K-2 1000 m, Men Rik Verbrugghe / Germaan Van De Moere BEL Yevgeny Yatsinenko / Ivan Golovachov URS Mihhail Kaaleste / Anatoly Demitkov URS
K-2 10000 m, Men János Urányi / László Fábián HUN Heinz Ackers / Wilhelm Schlüssel GER Helmuth Stocker / Franz Teidl GER
K-4 1000 m, Men Germany GER Hungary HUN Soviet Union URS
K-4 10000 m, Men Germany GER Germany GER Soviet Union URS
K-1 4 x 500 m relay, Men Germany GER Hungary HUN Sweden SWE
K-1 500 m, Women Yelisaveta Kislova URS Antonina Seredina URS Therese Zenz GER
K-2 500 m, Women Nina Gruzintseva / Mariya Shubina URS Antonina Seredina / Yelisaveta Kislova URS Therese Zenz / Ingrid Hartmann GER