Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 1000 m		men

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The canoeing schedule began on 30 July and ended on 2 August. 11 canoeing events were contested.

Medal Summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Sergei Postrekhin (URS)	Lyubomir Lyubenov (BUL)	Olaf Heukrodt (GDR)
C-1 1000 metres	Lyubomir Lyubenov (BUL)	Sergei Postrekhin (URS)	Eckhard Leue (GDR)
C-2 500 metres	László Foltán and István Vaskúti (HUN)	Ivan Patzaichin and Petre Capusta (ROU)	Borislav Ananiev and Nikolai Ilkov (BUL)
C-2 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin and Toma Simionov (ROU)	Olaf Heukrodt and Uwe Madeja (GDR)	Vasyl Yurchenko and Yuri Lobanov (URS)
K-1 500 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich (URS)	John Sumegi (AUS)	Vasile Dîba (ROU)
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm (GDR)	Alain Lebas (FRA)	Ion Bîrlădeanu (ROU)
K-2 500 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich and Sergei Chukhray (URS)	22x20px Herminio Menéndez and Guillermo del Riego (ESP)	Rüdiger Helm and Bernd Olbricht (GDR)
K-2 1000 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich and Sergei Chukhray (URS)	István Szabó and István Joós (HUN)	22x20px Luis Gregorio Ramos and Herminio Menéndez (ESP)
K-4 1000 metres	East Germany (GDR) Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht Harald Marg Bernd Duvigneau	Romania (ROM) Mihai Zafiu Vasile Dîba Ion Geantă Nicuşor Eşanu	Bulgaria (BUL) Borislav Borisov Bozhidar Milenkov Lazar Khristov Ivan Manev

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Birgit Fischer (GDR)	Vanja Gesheva (BUL)	Antonina Melnikova (URS)
K-2 500 metres	Carsta Genäuß and Martina Bischof (GDR)	Galina Alexeyeva and Nina Trofimova (URS)	Éva Rakusz and Mária Zakariás (HUN)

Medal table

All events took place at the Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin in Krylatskoye

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	2	8
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	1	3	8
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	2	5
	Romania (ROU)	1	2	2	5
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
6	Spain Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
7	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1

References

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