Canoe Racing World Championships 1938

1st Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Vaxholm
Competitions	12

The 1st Canoe Racing World Championships took place in Vaxholm ( Sweden ) in 1938 .

Medals were awarded in twelve disciplines of canoe racing: seven men's kayak competitions and two women's kayak competitions. There were also three men's canoeing competitions.

Results

Men

Canadians

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
C-1 1000 m	German Empire Otto Neumüller		German Empire Hans Wiedmann		Czechoslovakia Bohumil Sládek
C-2 1000 m	German Empire Rupert Weinstabl Karl Proisl		Czechoslovakia Bohuslav Karlík Jan Brzák-Felix		Czechoslovakia Václáv Mottl Zdeněk Škrland
C-2 10,000 m	Czechoslovakia Bohuslav Karlík Jan Brzák-Felix		German Empire Rupert Weinstabl Karl Proisl		German Empire Christian Holzenberg Heinz Juergens

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 1000 m	Sweden Karl Widmark		German Empire Helmut Cämmerer		German Empire Gregor Hradetzky
K-1 10,000 m	Sweden Karl Widmark		Poland Czesław Sobieraj		Sweden Egon Nilsson
K-1 10,000 m folding boat	Sweden Arne Bogren		Hungary Kamill Balatoni		German Empire Günter Nowatzki
K-2 1000 m	German Empire Helmut Triebe Hans Eberle		Sweden Kurt Bodo Hans Berglund		Denmark Poul Larsen Vagin Jørgensen
K-2 10,000 m	Sweden Gunnar Johansson Berndt Berndtsson		German Empire Helmut Triebe Hans Eberle		German Empire Adolf Kainz Karl Maurer
K-2 10,000 folding boat w	Sweden Carl-Gustav Hellstrandt Erik Helsvik		Sweden Sven Johansson Erik Bladström		German Empire Kurt Kreh Johann Fuchs
K-4 1000 m	German Empire Ernst Kube Heini Brüggemann Ernst Strathmann Heine Strathmann		German Empire Hans Rein Josef Reidel Albert Schorn Karl Aulenbach		Sweden Roland Karlsson Göte Carlsson Gunnar Johansson Berndt Berndtsson

Women

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 600 m	Finland Maggie Kalka		Sweden Maj-Britt Berqvist		Denmark Bofil Thirstedt
K-2 600 m	Czechoslovakia Marta Pavlisová Marta Zvolanková		German Empire Josefa Lehmenkühler Elisabeth Kropp		Denmark Ruth Lange Bofil Thirstedt

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Sweden	5	3	2	10
2	German Empire	4th	6th	5	15th
3	Czechoslovakia	2	1	2	5
4th	Finland	1	-	-	1
5	Hungary	-	1	-	1
	Poland	-	1	-	1
7th	Denmark	-	-	3	3
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Winner of the Canoe Racing World Championships (1936–2007) pp. 1–41 ( Memento from January 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Canoe results history on Sport-komplett.de