1980 Summer Olympics / Canoe

Canoe at the 1980 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Krylatskoje rowing channel
Nations	23
Athletes	180 (147 , 32 )
date	July 30th to August 2nd, 1980
decisions	11
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At the XXII. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , a total of eleven canoeing competitions were held, all of them distance competitions, nine for men and two for women.

Men

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Vladimir Parfenovich	1: 43.43 min
2	OUT	John Sumegi	1: 44.12 min
3	ROU	Vasile Dîba	1: 46.46 min

Single kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Rudiger helmet	3: 48.77 min
2	FRA	Alain Lebas	3: 50.20 min
3	ROU	Ion Birladeanu	3: 50.49 min

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Vladimir Parfenowitsch Sergei Tschuchrai	1: 33.65 min
2	ESP	Herminio Menéndez Guillermo Del Riego	1: 33.98 min
3	GDR	Bernd Olbricht Rüdiger Helm	1: 34.00 min

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Vladimir Parfenowitsch Sergei Tschuchrai	3: 26.72 min
2	HUN	István Szabó István Joós	3: 28.49 min
3	ESP	Luis Ramos-Misione Herminio Menéndez	3: 28.66 min

Quad kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht Harald Marg Bernd Duvigneau	3: 13.76 min
2	ROU	Mihai Zafiu Vasile Dîba Ion Geanta Nicusor Esanu	3: 15.35 min
3	BUL	Borislaw Borissow Boschidar Milenkow Lazar Christow Ivan Manew	3: 15.46 min

Single canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Serhiy Postrechin	1: 53.37 min
2	BUL	Lyubomir Lyubenow	1: 53.49 min
3	GDR	Olaf Heukrodt	1: 54.38 min

Single canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	BUL	Lyubomir Lyubenow	4: 12.38 min
2	URS	Serhiy Postrechin	4: 13.53 min
3	GDR	Eckhard Leue	4: 15.02 min

Two-person canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	HUN	László Foltán István Vaskúti	1: 43.39 min
2	ROU	Ivan Patzaichin Petre Capusta	1: 44.12 min
3	BUL	Borislav Ananiew Nikolai Ilkov	1: 44.83 min

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	ROU	Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov	3: 47.65 min
2	GDR	Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja	3: 49.93 min
3	URS	Wassyl Yurchenko Yuri Lobanov	3: 51.28 min

Women

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	GDR	Birgit Fischer	1: 57.96 min
2	BUL	Vanya Geschewa	1: 59.48 min
3	URS	Antanina Melnikawa	1: 59.66 min

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	GDR	Carsta agrees with Martina Bishop	1: 43.88 min
2	URS	Galina Kreft Nina Gopowa	1: 46.91 min
3	HUN	Éva Rakusz Mária Zakariás	1: 47.95 min