1970 World Canoe Sprint Championships

Host City København
Country DEN
Held 31 July – 2 August 1970
Competitors 84
Countries 14

Events

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

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 8 2 1 11
2 Romania ROU 2 3 1 6
3 Hungary HUN 2 2 3 7
4 Sweden SWE 1 2 2 5
5 Germany GER 1 1 1 3
6 Austria AUT 1 0 1 2
7 Norway NOR 1 0 0 1
8 East Germany GDR 0 2 3 5
9 Poland POL 0 2 1 3
10 Denmark DEN 0 1 0 1
= Netherlands NED 0 1 0 1
12 Belgium BEL 0 0 1 1
= Bulgaria BUL 0 0 1 1
= Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
C-1 1000 m, Men Tibor Tatai HUN Jerzy Opara POL Jiří Čtvrtečka TCH
C-1 10000 m, Men Tamás Wichmann HUN Afansie Butelchin ROU Nikolay Fedulov URS
C-2 1000 m, Men Ivan Patzaichin / Serghei Covaliov ROU Tamás Wichmann / Gyula Petrikovics HUN Boris Lyubenov / Sachko Iliev BUL
C-2 10000 m, Men Petre Maxim / Gheorghe Simionov ROU Valery Drybas / Vasily Kalyagin URS Bernt Lindelöf / Eric Zeidlitz SWE
K-1 500 m, Men Anatoly Tishchenko URS Grzegorz Śledziewski POL Jean-Pierre Burny BEL
K-1 1000 m, Men Aleksandr Shaparenko URS Lars Andersson SWE Grzegorz Śledziewski POL
K-1 10000 m, Men Viktor Tsaryov URS Erik Hansen DEN Péter Völgyi HUN
K-2 500 m, Men Lars Andersson / Rolf Peterson SWE Aurel Vernescu / Atanasie Sciotnic ROU Gerhard Seibold / Günther Pfaff AUT
K-2 1000 m, Men Gerhard Seibold / Günther Pfaff AUT Lars Andersson / Rolf Peterson SWE Klaus-Peter Ebeling / Joachim Mattern GDR
K-2 10000 m, Men Konstantin Kostenko / Vyacheslav Kononov URS Imre Szöllősi / Vilmos Nagy HUN Costel Coșniță / Vasile Simioncenco ROU
K-4 1000 m, Men Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Hungary HUN
K-4 10000 m, Men Norway NOR Germany GER Sweden SWE
K-1 4 x 500 m relay, Men Soviet Union URS Romania ROU Hungary HUN
K-1 500 m, Women Lyudmila Pinayeva URS Mieke Jaapies NED Petra Setzkorn GDR
K-2 500 m, Women Renate Breuer / Roswitha Esser GER Lyudmila Bezrukova / Tamara Shymanskaya URS Petra Setzkorn / Petra Grabowski GDR
K-4 500 m, Women Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Germany GER