1983 World Canoe Sprint Championships

Host City Tampere
Country FIN
Held 28 – 31 July 1983
Competitors 85
Countries 15

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 3 1 11
2 Soviet Union URS 3 6 3 12
3 Romania ROU 3 3 3 9
4 Hungary HUN 1 2 2 5
5 Yugoslavia YUG 1 1 1 3
6 Norway NOR 1 1 0 2
7 Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 1 2
8 Great Britain GBR 1 0 0 1
9 New Zealand NZL 0 1 1 2
10 Bulgaria BUL 0 1 0 1
11 Sweden SWE 0 0 2 2
12 Austria AUT 0 0 1 1
= Canada CAN 0 0 1 1
= Netherlands NED 0 0 1 1
= Poland POL 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
C-1 500 m, Men Costică Olaru ROU Ulrich Papke GDR Anatoly Volkov URS
C-1 1000 m, Men Vasily Beryoza URS Costică Olaru ROU Jiří Vrdlovec TCH
C-1 10000 m, Men Jiří Vrdlovec TCH Gheorghe Titu ROU Tamás Wichmann HUN
C-2 500 m, Men Matija Ljubek / Mirko Nišović YUG Ivans Klementjevs / Sergey Osadchy URS Dumitru Beţiu / Flodor Gurei ROU
C-2 1000 m, Men Ivan Patzaichin / Toma Simionov ROU Olaf Heukrodt / Alexander Schuck GDR Matija Ljubek / Mirko Nišović YUG
C-2 10000 m, Men Tamás Buday / István Vaskuti HUN Ivan Patzaichin / Toma Simionov ROU Sergey Petrenko / Yury Laptikov URS
K-1 500 m, Men Vladimir Parfenovich URS Ian Ferguson NZL Andreas Stähle GDR
K-1 1000 m, Men Rüdiger Helm GDR Artūras Vieta URS Alan Thompson NZL
K-1 10000 m, Men Einar Rasmussen NOR Milan Janić YUG Rick Daman NED
K-2 500 m, Men Frank Fischer / André Wohllebe GDR Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey Superata URS Hugh Fisher / Alwyn Morris CAN
K-2 1000 m, Men Frank Fischer / André Wohllebe GDR Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergey Superata URS Werner Bachmayer / Wolfgang Hartl AUT
K-2 10000 m, Men Stephen Jackson / Alan Williams GBR István Szabó / István Tóth HUN Bengt Andersson / Karl Sundqvist SWE
K-4 500 m, Men East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Hungary HUN
K-4 1000 m, Men Romania ROU East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS
K-4 10000 m, Men Soviet Union URS Norway NOR Poland POL
K-1 500 m, Women Birgit Fischer GDR Vanya Gesheva BUL Maria Ştefan ROU
K-2 500 m, Women Birgit Fischer / Carsta Kühn GDR Katalin Povázsán / Erika Géczi HUN Agneta Andersson / Susanne Wiberg SWE
K-4 500 m, Women East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Romania ROU