Canoe Racing World Championships 1983

18th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Tampere
Disciplines	18th
opening
End of competition

The 18th Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in 1983 Finnish Tampere instead. On four 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.

The GDR team won seven world championship titles. With Birgit Fischer , who won three titles, it also provided the most successful athlete.

Medalist

Men

Canadians

discipline	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
500 m C-1	Romania Costicǎ Olaru		GDR Ulrich Papke		Soviet Union Anatoly Volkov
500 m C-2	Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović		Soviet Union Ivan Klementiev Sergei Ossadzhiy		Romania Dumitru Betiu Flodor Gurei
1000 m C-1	Soviet Union Wassily Beresa		Romania Costicǎ Olaru		Czechoslovakia Jiří Vrdlovec
1000 m C-2	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		GDR Olaf Heukrodt Alexander Schuck		Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović
10,000 m C-1	Czechoslovakia Jiří Vrdlovec		Romania Gheorghe Titu		Hungary Tamás Wichmann
10,000 m C-2	Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti		Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Soviet Union Sergei Petrenko Yuri Laptikov

kayak

discipline	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
500 m K-1	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich		New Zealand Ian Ferguson		GDR Andreas Steels
500 m K-2	GDR Frank Fischer André Wohllebe		Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Superata		Canada Hugh Fisher Alwyn Morris
500 m K-4	GDR Andreas Stähle Peter Hempel Harald Marg Rüdiger helmet		Soviet Union Sergej Kolokolov Sergej Zhuchray Artūras Vieta Alexander Wodowatow		Hungary István Imai Attila Csaszar Zoltán Lorinczy András Rajna
1000 m K-1	GDR Rüdiger helmet		Soviet Union Artūras Vieta		New Zealand Alan Thompson
1000 m K-2	GDR Frank Fischer André Wohllebe		Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Superata		Austria Werner Bachmeyer Wolfgang Hartl
1000 m K-4	Romania Ionel Constantin Nicolae Fedosel Ionel Letcae Angelin Velea		GDR Andreas Stähle Peter Hempel Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg		Soviet Union Sergej Kolokolov Sergej Zhuchray Artūras Vieta Alexander Wodowatow
10,000 m K-1	Norway Einar Rasmussen		Yugoslavia Milan Janic		Netherlands Rick Daman
10,000 m K-2	United Kingdom Stephen Jackson Alain Williams		Hungary István Szabó István Tóth		Sweden Bengt Andersson Karl-Axel Sundqvist
10,000 m K-4	Soviet Union Nikolaj Astapkovich Alexander Avdeyev Nikolaj Baranov Alexander Yermilov		Norway Harald Amudsen Geir Kvillum Lars Ivar Gran Arne Slettsjø		Poland Ireneusz Ciurzyński Andrzej Klimaszewski Ryszard Oborski Krzysztof Szczepański

Women

kayak

discipline	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
500 m K-1	GDR Birgit Fischer		Bulgaria Vania Gesheva		Romania Maria Ştefan
500 m K-2	GDR Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn		Hungary Katalin Povázsán Erika Géczi		Sweden Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg
500 m K-4	GDR Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Ramona Walther Kathrin Giese		Soviet Union Inna Zhipulina Nelli Yefremova Natalja Kalasnikova Galina Aleksejeva		Romania Tecia Borzanea Agafia Burhaev Natasia Ionescu Maria Ştefan

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	GDR	7th	3	1	11
2	Soviet Union	3	6th	3	12
3	Romania	3	3	3	9
4th	Hungary	1	2	2	5
5	Yugoslavia	1	1	1	3
6th	Norway	1	1	-	2
7th	Czechoslovakia	1	-	1	2
8th	United Kingdom	1	-	-	1
9	New Zealand	-	1	1	2
10	Bulgaria	-	1	-	1
11	Sweden	-	-	2	2
12	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Canada	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
total		18th	18th	18th	54

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport83. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1983.

Web links

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