1977 World Canoe Sprint Championships

Host City Sofia
Country BUL
Held 1 – 4 September 1977
Competitors 81
Countries 10

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
C-1 500 m Men — Medal 3 3
C-1 1000 m Men — Medal 3 3
C-1 10000 m Men — Medal 3 3
C-2 500 m Men — Medal 6 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-4 500 m Men — Medal 12 3
K-4 1000 m Men — Medal 12 3
K-4 10000 m 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 11 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 4 5 5 14
2 Romania ROU 4 4 2 10
3 Hungary HUN 3 4 4 11
4 East Germany GDR 3 3 0 6
5 Poland POL 2 1 2 5
6 Bulgaria BUL 1 0 1 2
= Italy ITA 1 0 1 2
8 Canada CAN 0 1 0 1
= Germany GER 0 1 0 1
10 Spain ESP 0 0 2 2

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
C-1 500 m, Men Lipat Varabiev ROU Ulli Eicke GER Zdislav Soroko URS
C-1 1000 m, Men Ivan Patzaichin ROU Sergey Antipov URS Tamás Buday HUN
C-1 10000 m, Men Tamás Wichmann HUN Vasily Yurchenko URS Ivan Patzaichin ROU
C-2 500 m, Men László Foltán / István Vaskuti HUN John Wood / Gregory Smith CAN Vasily Yurchenko / Yury Lobanov URS
C-2 1000 m, Men Vasily Yurchenko / Yury Lobanov URS Tamás Buday / Oszkár Frey HUN Jerzy Opara / Andrzej Gronowicz POL
C-2 10000 m, Men Sergey Petrenko / Yury Lobanov URS Lipat Varabiev / Pavel Cozlov ROU Zoltán Parti / András Hubik HUN
K-1 500 m, Men Vasile Dîba ROU Grzegorz Śledziewski POL Zoltán Sztanity HUN
K-1 1000 m, Men Vasile Dîba ROU Rüdiger Helm GDR Oreste Perri ITA
K-1 10000 m, Men Oreste Perri ITA István Fábián
Nikolay Stepanenko 		HUN
URS
K-2 500 m, Men Joachim Mattern / Bernd Olbricht GDR Viktor Vorobyov / Nikolay Astapkovich URS Géza Csapó / József Svidró HUN
K-2 1000 m, Men Zoltán Bakó / István Szabó HUN Bernd Olbricht / Joachim Mattern GDR Vladimir Romanovsky / Sergey Nagorny URS
K-2 10000 m, Men Petras Shurskas / Anatoly Korolkov URS Zoltán Bakó / István Szabó HUN Nicolae Țicu / Cuprian Macarencu ROU
K-4 500 m, Men Poland POL Romania ROU Spain ESP
K-4 1000 m, Men Poland POL Soviet Union URS Spain ESP
K-4 10000 m, Men Soviet Union URS Hungary HUN Poland POL
K-1 500 m, Women Gudrun Klaus-Dittmar GDR Maria Cosma ROU Tatyana Korshunova URS
K-2 500 m, Women Marion Rösiger / Martina Fischer GDR Agafia Orlov / Nastasia Nichitov ROU Vanya Gesheva / Diana Christova BUL
K-4 500 m, Women Bulgaria BUL East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS