Canoe Racing World Championships 1954

4th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Mâcon
Competitions	15th

The 4th Canoe Racing World Championships took place in Mâcon ( France ) in 1954 .

Medals were awarded in 15 disciplines of canoe racing: four canoeing and nine kayaking competitions for men and two kayaking competitions for women.

Results

Men

Canadians

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
C-1 1000 m	Hungary János Parti		Hungary István Hernek		Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Poupa
C-1 10,000 m	Czechoslovakia Jiří Vokněr		Czechoslovakia František Čapek		Hungary István Hernek
C-2 1000 m	Austria Kurt Liebhart Engelbert Lulla		Hungary István Bodor Jószef Tuza		Hungary Ferenc Csonka Mihály Sasvari
C-2 10,000 m	Hungary Károly Wieland Jószef Halmay		Hungary Ferenc Csonka Mihály Sasvari		Czechoslovakia Jaroslav winner Zdeněk Ziegler

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 500 m	Sweden Gert Fredriksson		Germany Meinrad Miltenberger		Romania Mircea Anastasescu
K-1 1000 m	Sweden Gert Fredriksson		France Louis Gantois		Hungary Ferenc Hatlaczki
K-1 10,000 m	Hungary Ferenc Hatlaczki		Czechoslovakia Miloš bad luck		Norway Harald Eriksen
K-1 4 × 500 m relay	Sweden Lars Glasser Carl-Åke Ljung Bert Nilsson Gert Fredriksson		Hungary Ervin Szörenyi Andreás Sovan Ferenc Wagner Ferenc Hatlaczki		Austria Max Raub Herbert Wiedermann Alfred Schmidtberger Hermann Salzner
K-2 500 m	Federal Republic of Germany Ernst Steinhauer Meinrad Miltenberger		Sweden Bengt Linfors Valter Wredgberg		Hungary Ferenc Wagner Andreás Sovan
K-2 1000 m	Hungary István Mészáros György Mészáros		Germany Michel Scheuer Gustav Schmidt		Federal Republic of Germany Helmut Noller Günter Krammer
K-2 10,000 m	Austria Max Raub Herbert Wiedermann		Sweden Sigvard Johansson Rolf Fjellmann		Federal Republic of Germany Ernst Steinhauer Helmuth Stocker
K-4 1000 m	Hungary Imre Vagyócki László Kovács László Nagy Zoltán Szigeti		Sweden Einar Pihl Ebbe Frick Ragnar Heurlin Stig Andersson		France Maurice Graffen Marcel Renaud Louis Gantois Robert Enteric
K-4 10,000 m	Sweden Einar Pihl Ebbe Frick Ragnar Heurlin Stig Andersson		Sweden Hans Wetterström Carl Sundin Sigvard Johansson Rolf Fjellmann		Hungary János Urányi István Mészáros György Mészáros Ference Varga

Women

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 500 m	Saarland Therese Zenz		Austria Fritzi Schwingl		Denmark Tove Nielsen
K-2 500 m	Hungary Hilda Pinter Klára Bánfalvi		Hungary Valeria Lieszkowsky Vilma Egresi		BR Germany Lisa Schwarz Gisela Amail

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Hungary	6th	5	5	16
2	Sweden	4th	4th	-	8th
3	BR Germany	2	2	3	7th
4th	Czechoslovakia	1	2	2	5
5	Austria	2	1	1	4th
6th	France	-	1	1	2
7th	Denmark	-	-	1	1
	Norway	-	-	1	1
	Romania	-	-	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 )