Canoe Slalom World Championships 1985

The 19th Canoe Slalom World Championships took place in 1985 from June 12th to 16th in the Augsburg Ice Canal . After 1957 , Augsburg hosted the world championships for the second time. Participants from 20 nations took part in the competitions.

Medalist

Men

Canadians

Event	gold	Time (s)	silver	Time (s)	bronze	Time (s)
C-1	David Hearn	223.21	John Lugbill	235.91	Martyn Hedges	240.30
C-1 team	United States David Hearn John Lugbill Kent Ford	282.99	BR Germany Gerald Moos Andreas Kübler Ulrich Weber	308.71	Poland Edward Florian Piotr Sarata Adam Pietrasik	340.07
C-2	BR Germany Stephan Küppers Thomas Klein-Impelamnn	267.15	France Pierre Calori Jacques Calori	272.51	BR Germany Günther Wolkenaer Fredi Zimmermann	273.63
C-2 team	Czechoslovakia Jiří Rohan & Miroslav Šimek Miroslav Hajdučík & Milan Kučera Miksa & Jiri Decastelo	329.11	France Pierre Calori & Jacques Calori Emmanuel del Rey & Thierry Saidi Michel Saidi & Jerome Saval	380.55	United States Charles Harris & John Harris Lecky Haller & Fritz Haller Paul Grabow & Mike Garvis	384.03

kayak

Event	gold	Time (s)	silver	Time (s)	bronze	Time (s)
K-1	Richard Fox	210.56	Peter Micheler	220.60	Lubos Hilgert	221.07
K-1 team	BR Germany Peter Micheler Toni Prijon Jürgen Kübler	248.62	France Christophe Prigent Pascal Marinot Manuel Brissaud	258.22	Yugoslavia Marjan Štrukelj Janez Skok Jernej Abramic	264.75

Women

kayak

Event	gold	Time (s)	silver	Time (s)	bronze	Time (s)
K-1	Margit Messelhäuser	258.69	Marie-Francoise Grange	261.18	Gail Allan	264.26
K-1 team	France Sylvie Arnaud Marie-Francoise Grange Myriam Jerusalmi	382.24	BR Germany Gabi Schmid Margit Messelhäuser Ulla Steinle	392.41	United Kingdom Elizabeth Sharman Gail Allan Karen Davies	457.66

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	BR Germany	3	3	1	7th
2	United States	2	1	1	4th
3	France	1	4th	-	5
4th	United Kingdom	1	-	3	4th
5	Czechoslovakia	1	-	1	2
6th	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Yugoslavia	-	-	1	1
total		8th	8th	8th	24

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport85. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-328-00129-8 , p. 255-256 .

Web links

• Result Archive on www.archive.sportscene.tv
• Canoe results history