Canoe Racing World Championships 1948
| 2. Canoe racing world championships | |
|---|---|
| venue |
 London
|
| Competitions | 5 |
The 2nd Canoe Racing World Championships took place in London ( United Kingdom ) in 1948 .
Medals were awarded in five disciplines of canoe racing: four men's kayaking competitions and one women's kayaking competition. The women's race distance was reduced from 600 to 500 meters.
These were the first canoe racing world championships after the Second World War .
Results
Men
kayak
| Event | gold | time | silver | time | bronze | time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K-1 500 m |
 Sweden Gert Fredriksson |
Sweden Lars Glasser |
 Denmark Poul Agger |
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| K-1 4 × 500 m relay |
Sweden Lars Glasser Lars Helsvik Lennart Klingström Gert Fredriksson |
 Norway Ivar Mathisen Iver Iversen Hans Gulbrandsen Eivind Skabo |
Denmark Bernhard Jensen Poul Agger Ejvind Hansen Johan Kobberup |
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| K-2 500 m |
 Finland Thor Axelsson Nils Björklöf |
Denmark Alfred Christensen Finn Rasmussen |
Denmark Bernhard Jensen Ejvind Hansen |
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| K-4 1000 m |
Sweden Hans Berglund Lennart Klingström Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström |
 Austria Herbert Klepp Paul Fehlinger Walter Piemann Albert Umgeher |
 Czechoslovakia Ludvík Klíma Karel Lomecký Ota Krouthil Miloš Pech |
Women
kayak
| Event | gold | time | silver | time | bronze | time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K-2 500 m |
Denmark Karen Hoff Bodil Svendsen |
Czechoslovakia Marta Kohoutová Růžena Košťálová |
Austria Fritzi Schwingl Gertrude Liebhardt |
Medal table
| rank | nation | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sweden
|
3 | 1 | - | 4th |
| 2 |
Denmark
|
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 |
Finland
|
1 | - | - | 1 |
| 4th |
Austria
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
|
Czechoslovakia
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6th |
Norway
|
- | 1 | - | 1 |
| total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15th | |
Web links
- Winner of the Canoe Racing World Championships (1936-2007) pp. 1–41 ( Memento from January 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )