White Water Racing World Championships 1961

5- Pf - special stamp of the GDR post 1961 for the world championships

The 1961 Whitewater Racing World Championships took place from July 22nd to 26th, 1961. The venue was the Rote Weißeritz in Rabenauer Grund near Hainsberg , a community near Dresden in the GDR . It was the second world championship in this sport, the first in 1959 in Treignac (France). The whitewater racing world championships were held together with the canoe slalom world championships in 1961 . 13 nations took part in both competitions.

In order to ensure that there was enough water in the Rote Weißeritz, around 18 m³ of water per second was drained from the Malter dam and channeled into the river. During the two world championships, 30,000 to 40,000 visitors came to the Rote Weißeritz.

Results

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	4th	2	2	8th
2	Czechoslovakia	1	1	1	3
3	France	-	1	1	2
4th	Austria	-	1	-	1
5	Yugoslavia	-	-	1	1
total		5	5	5	15th

One kayak

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	TCH	Zdenek Kostal	25: 42.5
2	AUT	Rudolf Klepp	25: 45.8
3	YUG	Pavel Bone	25: 52.8

Women:

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Anneliese Bauer	27: 32.4
2	TCH	Jana Zverinova	28: 11.1
3	GDR	Eva Setzkorn	28: 23.4

Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Manfred Schubert	27: 47.3
2	GDR	Gert Kleinert	27: 53.5
3	FRA	Jean Grossmann	27: 58.2

Two-man Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Jürgen Noack Siegfried Lück	26: 17.5
2	GDR	Manfred Merkel Günther Merkel	26: 30.0
3	TCH	Zdenek Valenta Miroslav Stach	26: 33.5

Mixed:

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Rita Schneider Emil Zimmermann	26: 25.3
2	FRA	Nicole Lansmanne Georges Dransart	27: 15.7
3	GDR	Edith Nickel Willi Landers	27: 16.6

Web links

• Remembering the 1961 Canoe World Cup in Rabenauer Grund (video)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the history of the Rabenauer Grund ( memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Verena Weiß: Rabenau and Freital are reminiscent of Canoe World Championships . In: Saxon newspaper . May 18, 2012.
3. ↑ Canoe - White Water - World Championships (Men) , accessed on October 5, 2012.
4. ↑ Canoe - White Water - World Championships (women) , accessed on October 5, 2012.
5. ↑ Canoe - White Water - World Championships (Men - Single Canadians) , accessed on October 5, 2012.
6. ↑ Canoe - White Water - World Championships (men - two-man Canadians) , accessed on October 5, 2012.
7. ↑ Canoe - White Water - World Championships (Mixed - Two - Canadians) , accessed on October 5, 2012.

literature

• HE Vesper: 50 years of the International Canu Federation. Böhler-Verlag, Würzburg 1974.