Canoe Racing World Championships 1981

16th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Nottingham
Participating Nations	33
Participating athletes	457
Competitions	18th
opening	July 29, 1981
End of competition	2nd August 1981

The 16th Canoe Racing World Championships took place from July 29th to August 2nd 1981 in Nottingham ( United Kingdom ). The venue was the regatta course of the Holme Pierrepont water sports center .

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 seven titles, the GDR team became the most successful nation and, with Birgit Fischer , who won three titles just like Vladimir Parfenowitsch from the Soviet Union , was the most successful female athlete at these world championships.

Results

Men

Canadians

discipline	gold	Time (min)	silver	Time (min)	bronze	Time (min)
C-1 500 m	GDR Olaf Heukrodt	2: 01.38	Soviet Union Gennady Lisejchikow	2: 03.19	Hungary János Sarusi Kis	2: 03.76
C-1 1000 m	GDR Ulrich Papke	4: 03.46	Hungary Tamás Buday	4: 05.41	Czechoslovakia Jiří Vrdlovec	4: 05.94
C-1 10,000 m	Hungary Tamás Wichmann	48: 19.53	Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek	48: 24.06	Soviet Union Sergei Liminovich	49: 19.91
C-2 500 m	Hungary László Foltán István Vaskúti	1: 46.88	Soviet Union Edem Muradosilow Vigantas Tschekajtis	1: 47.74	Bulgaria Lyubomir Lyubenow Sevdalin Ilkow	1: 48.08
C-2 1000 m	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov	3: 38.75	GDR Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja	3: 40.12	Soviet Union Edem Muradosilow Vigantas Tschekajtis	3: 41.60
C-2 10,000 m	Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti	42: 50.64	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov	43: 11.17	Czechoslovakia Jiří Vrdlovec Petr Kubíček	43: 15.92

kayak

discipline	gold	Time (min)	silver	Time (min)	bronze	Time (min)
K-1 500 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich	1: 48.94	Romania Ion Bîrlădeanu	1: 50.67	Sweden Lars-Erik Moberg	1: 51.01
K-1 1000 m	GDR Rüdiger helmet	3: 45.12	Romania Ion Bîrlădeanu	3: 46.88	Norway Einar Rasmussen	3: 47.34
K-1 10,000 m	Norway Einar Rasmussen	44: 17.11	Yugoslavia Milan Janic	44: 19.90	Hungary István Fábián	44: 21.68
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenowitsch Sergei Superata	1: 37.32	Poland Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna	1: 38.31	GDR Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer	1: 39.54
K-2 1000 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenowitsch Sergei Superata	3: 21.39	GDR Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer	3: 22.13	Poland Waldemar Mark Daniel Wełna	3: 22.31
K-2 10,000 m	Soviet Union Nikolai Astapkovich Uladsimir Ramanouski	40: 32.01	Hungary István Szabó István Joós	40: 33.75	Romania Ion Bîrlădeanu Nicuşor Eşanu	40: 37.29
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Sergei Kriwoschejew Igor Gajdamaka Igor Polianis Alexander Vodowatow	1: 26.84	Sweden Jens Nordqvist Lars-Erik Moberg Per-Inge Bengtsson Thomas Ohlsson	1: 27.63	GDR Frank-Peter Bishop André Wohllebe Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg	1: 28.09
K-4 1000 m	GDR Frank-Peter Bishop Peter Hempel Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg	3: 04.51	Soviet Union Sergei Kolokolow Aleksander Wolkowski Alexander Yermilow Nikolai Baranow	3: 05.80	BR Germany Oliver Seack Andreas Flunker Frank Renner Oliver Kegel	3: 06.66
K-4 10,000 m	Soviet Union Alexander Jermilow Nikolai Baranow Sergej Kolokolow Vasily Silenkow	35: 57.98	Poland Andrzej Klimaszewski Leszek Jamroziński Ryszard Oborski Zdzisław Szubski	36: 00.09	United Kingdom Stephen Brown Christoph Canham Stephen Jackson Alan Williams	36: 02.08

Women

kayak

discipline	gold	Time (min)	silver	Time (min)	bronze	Time (min)
K-1 500 m	GDR Birgit Fischer	1: 57.70	Hungary Éva Rakusz	1: 58.89	Sweden Agneta Andersson	2: 06.65
K-2 500 m	GDR Carsta Kühn Birgit Fischer	1: 47.23	Sweden Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg	1: 48.75	Romania Agafia Buhaev Maria Ștefan	1: 49.42
K-4 500 m	GDR Carsta Kühn Birgit Fischer Kathrin Stoll Roswitha Eberl	1: 38.81	Soviet Union Natalja Filonitsch Larissa Nadviga Inna Shipulina Ljubov Orechova	1: 40.25	Sweden Karin Olsson Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg Eva Karlsson	1: 40.94

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	GDR	7th	2	2	110
2	Soviet Union	6th	4th	2	120
3	Hungary	3	3	2	8th
4th	Romania	1	3	2	6th
5	Norway	1	-	1	2
6th	Sweden	-	2	3	5
7th	Poland	-	2	1	2
8th	Yugoslavia	-	2	-	2
9	Czechoslovakia	-	-	2	2
10	Bulgaria	-	-	1	1
	BR Germany	-	-	1	1
	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1
total		18th	18th	18th	54

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 238 .
• New Germany . No. 178-182 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1981, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

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