1981 World Canoe Sprint Championships

Host City Nottingham
Country GBR
Held 29 July – 2 August 1981
Competitors 79
Countries 12

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 East Germany GDR 7 2 2 11
2 Soviet Union URS 6 4 2 12
3 Hungary HUN 3 3 2 8
4 Romania ROU 1 3 2 6
5 Norway NOR 1 0 1 2
6 Sweden SWE 0 2 3 5
7 Poland POL 0 2 1 3
8 Yugoslavia YUG 0 2 0 2
9 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 2 2
10 Bulgaria BUL 0 0 1 1
= Germany GER 0 0 1 1
= Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
C-1 500 m, Men Olaf Heukrodt GDR Gennady Liseichikov URS János Sarusi Kis HUN
C-1 1000 m, Men Ulrich Papke GDR Tamás Buday HUN Jiří Vrdlovec TCH
C-1 10000 m, Men Tamás Wichmann HUN Matija Ljubek YUG Sergey Liminovich URS
C-2 500 m, Men László Foltán / István Vaskuti HUN Edem Muradosilov / Vigantas Chyakaytis URS Lyubomir Lyubenov / Sevdalin Ilkov BUL
C-2 1000 m, Men Ivan Patzaichin / Toma Simionov ROU Olaf Heukrodt / Uwe Madeja GDR Edem Muradosilov / Vigantas Chyakaytis URS
C-2 10000 m, Men Tamás Buday / István Vaskuti HUN Ivan Patzaichin / Toma Simionov ROU Jiří Vrdlovec / Petr Kubíček TCH
K-1 500 m, Men Vladimir Parfenovich URS Ion Bîrlădeanu ROU Lars-Erik Moberg SWE
K-1 1000 m, Men Rüdiger Helm GDR Ion Bîrlădeanu ROU Einar Rasmussen NOR
K-1 10000 m, Men Einar Rasmussen NOR Milan Janić YUG István Fábián HUN
K-2 500 m, Men Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey Superata URS Waldemar Merk / Daniel Wełna POL Bernd Fleckeisen / Frank Fischer GDR
K-2 1000 m, Men Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey Superata URS Bernd Fleckeisen / Frank Fischer GDR Waldemar Merk / Daniel Wełna POL
K-2 10000 m, Men Nikolay Astapkovich / Vladimir Romanovsky URS István Szabó / István Joós HUN Ion Bîrlădeanu / Nicușor Eșanu ROU
K-4 500 m, Men Soviet Union URS Sweden SWE East Germany GDR
K-4 1000 m, Men East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Germany GER
K-4 10000 m, Men Soviet Union URS Poland POL Great Britain GBR
K-1 500 m, Women Birgit Fischer GDR Éva Rakusz HUN Agneta Andersson SWE
K-2 500 m, Women Birgit Fischer / Carsta Kühn GDR Agneta Andersson / Susanne Wiberg SWE Agafia Orlov-Buhaev-Constantin / Maria Ştefan ROU
K-4 500 m, Women East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Sweden SWE