Canoe Racing World Championships 1979

15th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Duisburg
Participating Nations	31
Disciplines	18th
opening	15th August 1979
End of competition	19th August 1979

The 15th Canoe Racing World Championships took place from August 15 to 19, 1979 in Duisburg in the Federal Republic of Germany . The venue was the regatta track in the Duisburg Sports Park .

On five days of the competition, medals were awarded in 18 disciplines of canoe racing: single kayak (K1), two-person kayak (K2) and four-person kayak (K4) as well as single-canoe (C1) and two-person canoe (C2) for men , over 500, 1000 and 10,000 meters respectively. For women, it was over 500 meters in K1, K2 and K4.

With their seven titles, the Soviet Union team became the most successful nation in these world championships.

Medalist

Men

Canadians

discipline	gold	Time (min)	silver	Time (min)	bronze	Time (min)
500 m C-1	Soviet Union Sergei Postrechin	2: 03.322	Federal Republic of Germany Ulrich Eicke	2: 03.366	Bulgaria Lyubomir Lyubenow	2: 04.027
500 m C-2	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Petre Capusta	1: 50.197	Soviet Union Sergei Petrenko Alexander Vinogradov	1: 50.415	Poland Marek Łbik Piotr Pawlowski	1: 52.222
1000 m C-1	Hungary Tamás Wichmann	4: 22.092	Bulgaria Lyubomir Lyubenow	4: 23.702	Romania Ivan Patzaichin	4: 24.092
1000 m C-2	Soviet Union Vasyl Yurchenko Yuri Lobanov	3: 54.038	Hungary Tamás Buday Oszkár Frey	3: 56.578	Romania Toma Simionov Gheorghe Simionov	3: 58.735
10,000 m C-1	Hungary Tamás Wichmann	49: 08.419	Soviet Union Sergei Liminovich	49: 16.938	Romania Ivan Patzaichin	49: 50.272
10,000 m C-2	Soviet Union Vasyl Yurchenko Yuri Lobanov	43: 53.656	Romania Cherasim Munteanu Gheorge Titu	44: 02.195	Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti	44: 17.504

kayak

discipline	gold	Time (min)	silver	Time (min)	bronze	Time (min)
500 m K-1	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich	1: 49.649	Australia John Sumegi	1: 50.999	GDR Peter Hempel	1: 51.170
500 m K-2	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenowitsch Sergei Chuchrai	1: 37.572	GDR Bernd Olbricht Rüdiger helmet	1: 39.003	France Alain Lebas Francis Hervieu	1: 40.601
500 m K-4	GDR Bernd Duvigneau Harald Marg Jürgen Dittrich Roland Graupner	1: 30.026	Soviet Union Sergei Schinkarenko Ionas Sautra Sergei Tschuchrai Vladimir Tainikow	1: 31.021	Poland Ryszard Oborski Daniel Wełna Grzegorz Kołtan Grzegorz Śledziewski	1: 31.481
1000 m K-1	GDR Rüdiger helmet	3: 58.615	Romania Ion Bîrlădeanu	3: 59.866	Czechoslovakia Felix Masár	4: 01.042
1000 m K-2	Norway Einar Rasmussen Olaf Søyland	3: 36.190	Hungary István Szabó Zoltán Bakó	3: 36.985	Soviet Union Sergei Chuchrai Vladimir Tainikov	3: 37.471
1000 m K-4	GDR Bernd Olbricht Bernd Duvigneau Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg	3: 14.438	Poland Ryszard Oborski Daniel Wełna Grzegorz Kołtan Grzegorz Śledziewski	3: 15.655	Soviet Union Oleksander Schaparenko Sergei Nagorny Alexander Avdejew Ionas Sautra	3: 16.317
10,000 m K-1	Yugoslavia Milan Janic	46: 01.843	Norway Einar Rasmussen	46: 02.746	Soviet Union Nikolai Stepanenko	46: 06.225
10,000 m K-2	Romania Nicuşor Eşanu Ion Bîrlădeanu	41: 27.804	Soviet Union Nikolai Astapkovich Viktor Bukanov	41: 31.991	Spain Herminio Menéndez Luis Gregorio Ramos Misioné	41: 33.331
10,000 m K-4	Soviet Union Oleksander Schaparenko Sergei Nagorny Alexander Avdejew Sergei Nikolski	36: 05.46	Poland Andrzej Klimaszewski Krzysztof Lepianka Zbigniew Torzecki Zdzisław Szubski	36: 07.96	Hungary Tamás Benkő Péter Konecsny László Szabó Zoltán Romhanyi	36: 13.35

Women

kayak

discipline	gold	Time (min)	silver	Time (min)	bronze	Time (min)
500 m K-1	GDR Roswitha Eberl	2: 04.477	Soviet Union Galina Alexejewa	2: 06.930	Hungary Klára Rajnai	2: 08.455
500 m K-2	Soviet Union Natalia Kalashinkowa Nina Doroh	1: 54.195	GDR Marion Rösiger Martina Bishop	1: 54.329	Romania Agafia Orlov Nastasia Nichitov	1: 55.715
500 m K-4	GDR Marion Rösiger Martina Bishop Birgit Fischer Roswitha Eberl	1: 42.606	Soviet Union Galina Alexejewa Nadeschda Trachimenok Tatiana Korschunowa Larissa Nadviga	1: 45.235	Romania Agafia Orlov Nastasia Nichitov Maria Nicolae Adriana Tarasov	1: 45.537

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	7th	6th	3	160
2	GDR	5	2	1	8th
3	Romania	2	2	5	9
4th	Hungary	2	2	3	7th
5	Norway	1	1	-	2
6th	Yugoslavia	1	-	-	1
7th	Poland	-	2	2	4th
8th	Bulgaria	-	1	1	2
9	BR Germany	-	1	-	1
	Australia	-	1	-	1
110	France	-	-	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1
	Spain	-	-	1	1
total		18th	18th	18th	54

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 186 .
• New Germany . No. 195 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1979, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

• Canoe results history