Canoe Racing World Championships 1948
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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 |
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K-1 500 m |
![]() Gert Fredriksson |
![]() Lars Glasser |
![]() Poul Agger |
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K-1 4 × 500 m relay |
![]() Lars Glasser Lars Helsvik Lennart Klingström Gert Fredriksson |
![]() Ivar Mathisen Iver Iversen Hans Gulbrandsen Eivind Skabo |
![]() Bernhard Jensen Poul Agger Ejvind Hansen Johan Kobberup |
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K-2 500 m |
![]() Thor Axelsson Nils Björklöf |
![]() Alfred Christensen Finn Rasmussen |
![]() Bernhard Jensen Ejvind Hansen |
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K-4 1000 m |
![]() Hans Berglund Lennart Klingström Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström |
![]() Herbert Klepp Paul Fehlinger Walter Piemann Albert Umgeher |
![]() Ludvík Klíma Karel Lomecký Ota Krouthil Miloš Pech |
Women
kayak
Event | gold | time | silver | time | bronze | time |
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K-2 500 m |
![]() Karen Hoff Bodil Svendsen |
![]() Marta Kohoutová Růžena Košťálová |
![]() Fritzi Schwingl Gertrude Liebhardt |
Medal table
rank | nation | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1 |
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3 | 1 | - | 4th |
2 |
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1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
3 |
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1 | - | - | 1 |
4th |
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- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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- | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
6th |
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- | 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 )