Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m				women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 1000 m		men

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, seven events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1964. Lake Xochimilco was where the events took place.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Tibor Tatai (HUN)	Detlef Lewe (FRG)	Vitaly Galkov (URS)
C-2 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin and Serghei Covaliov (ROU)	Tamás Wichmann and Gyula Petrikovics (HUN)	Naum Prokupets and Mikhail Zamotin (URS)
K-1 1000 metres	Mihály Hesz (HUN)	Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)	Erik Hansen (DEN)
K-2 1000 metres	Aleksandr Shaparenko and Volodymyr Morozov (URS)	Csaba Giczi and István Timár (HUN)	Gerhard Siebold and Günther Pfaff (AUT)
K-4 1000 metres	Norway (NOR) Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Romania (ROU) Anton Calenic Haralambie Ivanov Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Ţurcaş	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Giczi Imre Szöllösi István Timár István Csizmadia

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Pinayeva (URS)	Renate Breuer (FRG)	Viorica Dumitru (ROU)
K-2 500 metres	Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann (FRG)	Anna Pfeffer and Katalin Rozsnyói (HUN)	Lyudmila Pinayeva and Antonina Seredina (URS)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	3	6
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
4	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3, Part 2. pp. 614–21. (English) & (French)