1979 World Canoe Sprint Championships

Host City Duisburg
Country GER
Held 15 – 19 August 1979
Competitors 80
Countries 13

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 12 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 7 6 3 16
2 East Germany GDR 5 2 1 8
3 Romania ROU 2 2 5 9
4 Hungary HUN 2 2 3 7
5 Norway NOR 1 1 0 2
6 Yugoslavia YUG 1 0 0 1
7 Poland POL 0 2 2 4
8 Bulgaria BUL 0 1 1 2
9 Australia AUS 0 1 0 1
= Germany GER 0 1 0 1
11 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
= France FRA 0 0 1 1
= Spain ESP 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
C-1 500 m, Men Sergey Postrekhin URS Ulli Eicke GER Lyubomir Lyubenov BUL
C-1 1000 m, Men Tamás Wichmann HUN Lyubomir Lyubenov BUL Ivan Patzaichin ROU
C-1 10000 m, Men Tamás Wichmann HUN Sergey Liminovich URS Ivan Patzaichin ROU
C-2 500 m, Men Ivan Patzaichin / Petre Capusta ROU Sergey Petrenko / Aleksandr Vinogradov URS Marek Łbik / Piotr Pawłowski POL
C-2 1000 m, Men Vasily Yurchenko / Yury Lobanov URS Tamás Buday / Oszkár Frey HUN Toma Simionov / Gheorghe Simionov ROU
C-2 10000 m, Men Vasily Yurchenko / Yury Lobanov URS Cherasim Munteanu / Gheorghe Titu ROU Tamás Buday / István Vaskuti HUN
K-1 500 m, Men Vladimir Parfenovich URS John Sumegi AUS Peter Hempel GDR
K-1 1000 m, Men Rüdiger Helm GDR Ion Bîrlădeanu ROU Felix Masár TCH
K-1 10000 m, Men Milan Janić YUG Einar Rasmussen NOR Nikolay Stepanenko URS
K-2 500 m, Men Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey Chukhray URS Bernd Olbricht / Rüdiger Helm GDR Alain Lebas / Francis Hervieu FRA
K-2 1000 m, Men Einar Rasmussen / Olaf Søyland NOR Zoltán Bakó / István Szabó HUN Sergey Chukhray / Vladimir Taynikov URS
K-2 10000 m, Men Nicușor Eșanu / Ion Bîrlădeanu ROU Nikolay Astapkovich / Viktor Bukanov URS Herminio Menéndez / Luis Ramos ESP
K-4 500 m, Men East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Poland POL
K-4 1000 m, Men East Germany GDR Poland POL Soviet Union URS
K-4 10000 m, Men Soviet Union URS Poland POL Hungary HUN
K-1 500 m, Women Roswitha Eberl GDR Galina Alekseyeva URS Klára Rajnai HUN
K-2 500 m, Women Nataliya Kalashinkova / Nina Dorokh URS Marion Rösiger / Martina Bischof GDR Agafia Orlov / Nastasia Nichitov ROU
K-4 500 m, Women East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Romania ROU