1973_ICF_Canoe_Sprint_World_Championships Knowpia

The 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland.

The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.

This was the tenth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary edit

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 500 m	Miklós Darvas (HUN)		Nikolay Fedulov (URS)		Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)
C-1 1000 m	Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)		Romualdas Vinojinidis (URS)		Tamás Wichmann (HUN)
C-1 10000 m	Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS)		Lipat Varabiev (ROU)		Tamás Wichmann (HUN)
C-2 500 m	Soviet Union Oleg Kalidov Vitaliy Slobodenyuk		Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov		Poland Jerzy Opara Andrzej Gronowicz
C-2 1000 m	Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov		Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov		Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics
C-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov		Romania Vasile Serghei Cherasim Munteanu		Hungary Tamás Buday Gábor Haraszti

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Géza Csapó (HUN)		Vitaliy Trukshin (URS)		Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)
K-1 1000 m	Géza Csapó (HUN)		Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)		Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)
K-1 10000 m	Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)		Péter Völgyi (HUN)		Jörgen Andersen (DEN)
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Soviet Union Vitaliy Trukshin Anatoliy Kobrisev Sergey Nikolskiy Oleg Zhegoyev		Hungary István Csizmadia Zoltán Angyal Róbert Schaffhauser István Szabó		Romania Atanase Sciotnic Vasilie Simiocenco Roman Vartolomeu Mihai Zafiu
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Nikolay Gogol Pytor Greshta		Hungary József Deme János Rátkai		Romania Ion Dragulschi Ernst Pavel
K-2 1000 m	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai		Romania Ion Dragulschi Ernst Pavel		East Germany Herbert Laabs Joachim Mattern
K-2 10000 m	Hungary Zoltán Bakó Géza Csapó		Romania Ion Terente Antrop Variabev		Belgium Jos Broekx Paul Stinckens
K-4 1000 m	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai Csongor Vargha Csaba Giczy		Soviet Union Yuri Filatov Vladimir Morozov Nikolay Gogol Valeri Didenko		East Germany Norbert Paschke Peter Korsch Jürgen Lehnert Harald Marg
K-4 10000 m	Hungary Csaba Giczy Tibor Nagy Csongor Vargha Géza Kralován		West Germany Hans-Erich Pasch Horst Mattern Rudolf Blass Eberhard Fischer		Romania Atanase Sciotnic Cuprian Macarencu Costel Coșniță Vasilie Simiocenco

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Nina Gopova (URS)		Petra Borzym (GDR)		Victoria Dumitru (ROU)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Ilse Kaschube Petra Borzym		Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Nina Gopova		Hungary Anna Pfeffer Ilona Tőzsér
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Nina Gopova Larissa Kabakova Tamara Popova		Hungary Anna Pfeffer Ilona Tőzsér Erzsébet Horváth Mária Zakariás		Romania Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichiforov Maria Cosma Maria Ivanov


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	8	6	1	15
2	Hungary (HUN)	7	4	5	16
3	Romania (ROU)	2	5	6	13
4	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	2	4
5	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
6	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
7	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		18	18	18	54

ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.