Whitewater Racing World Championships 1963

In 1963 the third world championships in canoe whitewater racing took place. The title fights took place on August 13th and 14th. in Spittal on the Lieser . 14 nations took part. In addition to the previously held folding boat class, titles in the so-called R1 classes, kayaks made of fiber-reinforced plastics, were held for the first time. The team competitions, in which three boats compete as a team, were also new.

Results

Nations ranking

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	4th	5	2	11
2	BR Germany	2	5	3	10
3	Austria	2	2	1	5
4th	Czechoslovakia	2	-	4th	6th
5	France	2	-	1	3
6th	Switzerland	1	1	2	4th
total		13	13	13	39

In detail, the following results were obtained.

Individual competitions

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	2	3	-	5
2	Austria	2	-	-	2
3	Czechoslovakia	1	-	3	4th
4th	Switzerland	1	-	1	2
	France	1	-	1	2
6th	Germany	-	4th	2	6th
total		7th	7th	7th	21st

One kayak

Men F1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	Austria	Kurt Preslmayer	31: 39.5 min
2	BR Germany	Klaus Lettmann	31: 59.9 min
3	BR Germany	Siegfried Gunzenberger	32: 15.8 min

Men R1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	Austria	Rudolf Klepp	29: 58.5 min
2	BR Germany	Karl-Heinz Englet	30: 53.4 min
3	Switzerland	Jean Grosrey	31: 15.5 min

Women F1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Annelies Bauer	18: 41.1 min
2	BR Germany	Rosemarie Bisinger	18: 49.8 min
3	BR Germany	Hilde Urbaniak	18: 50.8 min

Women R1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Ursula glasses	18: 07.0 min
2	BR Germany	Bärbel grains	18: 07.4 min
3	Czechoslovakia	Ludmila Veberova	18: 18.7 min

Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	Switzerland	Heinz Grobat	35: 20.2 min
2	German Democratic Republic	Manfred Schubert	35: 21.3 min
3	Czechoslovakia	Bohuslav Pospichal	35: 23.2 min

Two-man Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	Czechoslovakia	Stach / Valenta	32: 50.7 min
2	German Democratic Republic	Merkel / Merkel	33: 25.1 min
3	Czechoslovakia	Kny / Horyna	33: 32.0 min

Mixed:

space	country	athlete	time
1	France	Lansmanne / Dransart	18: 29.7 min
2	German Democratic Republic	Grabo / Landers	18: 56.5 min
3	France	Guette / Olry	19:01.5 min

Team competitions

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	2	2	2	6th
2	BR Germany	2	1	1	4th
3	Czechoslovakia	1	-	1	2
4th	France	1	-	-	1
5	Austria	-	2	1	3
6th	Switzerland	-	1	1	2
total		6th	6th	6th	18th

One kayak

Men F1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	BR Germany	Albrecht Lettmann Vogt	31: 49.2 min
2	German Democratic Republic	Glasses from Bremer Bieling	31: 52.2 min
3	Austria	Fabian Preslmayer Dopsch	31: 53.1 min

Men R1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	BR Germany	Englet Grünberg Schröder	30: 32.5 min
2	Austria	Klepp Leitner Steindl	31: 16.4 min
3	German Democratic Republic	Luber Lange Butcher	31: 41.6 min

Women F1 and R1:

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Merkel Bauer glasses	17: 58.4 min
2	BR Germany	Körner Schmidt Bisinger	18: 10.0 min
3	Czechoslovakia	Veberova Zwerinova Knynova	19: 56.7 min

Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	Czechoslovakia	Girasek Pospichal Janovsky	35: 29.9 min
2	German Democratic Republic	Schubert Kleinert Wozniak	35: 34.1 min
3	Switzerland	Girard Tochon Grobat	35: 46.7 min

Two-man Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Noak / Lück Merkel / Merkel Seifert / Glöckner	33: 51.3 min
2	Austria	Kerbl / Gürtelbauer Biegl / Schilhuber Tutschka / Haberzettl	34: 42.5 min
3	BR Germany	Asmer / Komnik Gehlen / Bohry Roock / Brümmer	34: 50.2 min

Mixed:

space	country	athlete	time
1	France	Lansmanne / Dransart Guyette / Olry Charlon / Chidini	18: 26.5 min
2	Switzerland	Bardet / Bardet Huch / Roth Mosimann / Mosimann	18: 30.7 min
3	German Democratic Republic	Grabo / Landers Teso / Wunderlich Krüger / Lempert	25: 40.1 min

Individual evidence

1. ^ HE Vespers: 50 years of the International Canu Federation. 1973.