Canoe Racing World Championships 1950

3rd Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Copenhagen
Competitions	15th

The 3rd Canoe Racing World Championships took place in Copenhagen ( Denmark ) in 1950 .

Medals were awarded in 15 disciplines of canoe racing: four canoeing and nine kayaking competitions for men and two kayaking competitions for women. For the first time in World Cup history, the one-canadian competition and the four-man kayak competition over 10,000 meters for men were held.

Results

Men

Canadians

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
C-1 1000 m	Czechoslovakia Josef Holeček		France Robert Boutigny		Sweden Bengt Backlund
C-1 10,000 m	France Robert Boutigny		Czechoslovakia Josef Holeček		Sweden Bengt Backlund
C-2 1000 m	Czechoslovakia Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudma		France Georges Dransart Armand Loreau		Czechoslovakia Václáv Havel Jiří Pecka
C-2 10,000 m	Czechoslovakia Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudma		France Georges Dransart Armand Loreau		Czechoslovakia Bohuslav Karlík Oldřich Lomecký

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 500 m	Denmark Johann Andersen		Sweden Lennart Klingström		Denmark Andreas Lind
K-1 1000 m	Sweden Gert Fredriksson		Finland Thorvald Strömberg		Sweden Lars Petterson
K-1 10,000 m	Finland Thorvald Strömberg		Sweden Gert Fredriksson		Sweden Arne Jansson
K-1 4 × 500 m relay	Sweden Lars Glasser Ingermar Hedberg Lennart Klingström Gert Fredriksson		Denmark Poul Agger Andreas Lind Ejvind Hansen Johan Andersen		Austria Herbert Klepp Max Raub Herbert Wiedermann Günther Rührnschopf
K-2 500 m	Sweden Lars Glasser Ingermar Hedberg		Sweden Herny Pettersson Berndt Häppling		Austria Max Raub Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 1000 m	Sweden Lars Glasser Ingermar Hedberg		Norway Ivar Mathisen Knut Østby		Netherlands Piet Bakker Harri Kooistra
K-2 10,000 m	Sweden Gunnar Akerlund Hans Wetterström		Denmark Svend Frømming Ingvar Nørregaard		Sweden Karl-Erick Björk Per-Olav Olsson
K-4 1000 m	Sweden Einar Pihl Hans Eirksson Lars Pettersson Berndt Häppling		Sweden Gunnar Åkerlund Ebbe Frick Sven-Olaf Sjödelius Hans Wetterström		Austria Herbert Klepp Walter Frühwirth Hans Ortner Paul Fehlinger
K-4 10,000 m	Sweden Karl Andersson Stig Andersson Gösta Gustavsson Harry Johansson		Sweden Karl-Erik Björk Per-Olav Olsson Klas Norgren Arne Jannson		Austria Walter Piemann Alfred Schmidtberger Otto Lochner Alfred Krammer

Women

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 500 m	Finland Sylvi Saimo		Denmark Karen Hoff		Austria Fritzi Schwingl
K-2 500 m	Finland Sylvi Saimo Greta Grönholm		Austria Trude Leibhart Fritzi Schwingl		Sweden Ingrid Wallgren Lisa Lundberg

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Sweden	7th	5	6th	18th
2	Czechoslovakia	3	1	2	6th
3	Finland	3	1	-	4th
4th	Denmark	1	3	1	5
5	France	1	3	-	4th
6th	Austria	-	1	5	6th
7th	Norway	-	1	-	1
8th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
total		15th	15th	15th	45

Web links

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