1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

The men's competition consisted of six canoe (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for women, all in kayak. C-1 500 m and C-2 500 m events debuted at this ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the ninth Championships in canoe sprint.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 m	Detlef Lewe (GER)	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)	Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)
C-1 1000 m	Detlef Lewe (GER)	Tibor Tatai (HUN)	Vladas Česiūnas (URS)
C-1 10000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)	Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS)	Lipat Varabiev (ROU)
C-2 500 m	Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov	Soviet Union Yuri Lobanov Vladimir Pankov	Bulgaria Viktor Boitschev Fedia Damianov
C-2 1000 m	Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Bulgaria Viktor Boitschev Fedia Damianov
C-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Naum Prokupets Aleksandr Vinogradov	Hungary László Hingt István Cserha	Romania Serghei Covaliov Vicol Calabiciov

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Nikolay Gogol (URS)	Ladislav Souček (TCH)	Mihály Hesz (HUN)
K-1 1000 m	Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)	Lars Andersson (SWE)	Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)
K-1 10000 m	Viktor Tsaryov (URS)	Péter Völgyi (HUN)	Jochen Schneider (GER)
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Hungary Géza Csapó István Szabó Csaba Giczy Mihály Hesz	Romania Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Zafiu Eugen Botez Aurel Vernescu	Soviet Union Anatoliy Kobrisev Anatoliy Sedasov Leonid Derevyanko Anatoliy Tischenko
K-2 500 m	Sweden Lars Andersson Rolf Peterson	Belgium Jean-Pierre Burny Paul Hoekstra	Soviet Union Nikolay Gogol Pytor Greshta
K-2 1000 m	East Germany Reiner Kurth Alexander Slatnow	Austria Gerhard Seibold Günther Pfaff	Romania Costel Coșniță Vasilie Simiocenco
K-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Konstantin Kostenko Vyacheslav Kononov	Norway Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Romania Antrop Varabiev Emilian Zabara
K-4 1000 m	Soviet Union Yuri Filatov Vladimir Morozov Yuriy Stetsenko Valeri Didenko	West Germany Hans-Erich Pasch Rainer Hennes Rudolf Blass Eberhard Fischer	Hungary István Szabó Péter Várhelyi Zoltán Bakó Géza Csapó
K-4 10000 m	Romania Cuprian Macarencu Costel Coșniță Vasilie Simiocenco Atanase Sciotnic	Hungary Csaba Giczy István Timár György Mészáros Csongor Vargha	Soviet Union Heino Kurvet Nikolai Gorbachev Vladimir Klimov Vladimir Zemlyakov

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Lyudmila Pinayeva (URS)	Mieke Jaapies (NED)	Petra Setzkorn (GDR)
K-2 500 m	Hungary Anna Pfeffer Katalin Hollósy	East Germany Petra Setzkorn Petra Grabowski	Soviet Union Tamara Popova Yekaterina Kuryshko
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Yekaterina Kuryshko Natalya Boyko Yuliya Ryabtzhinskaya Lyudmila Pinayeva	West Germany Renate Breuer Roswitha Esser Irene Pepinghege Heiderose Wallbaum	East Germany Petra Setzkorn Marion Grupe Bettina Müller Petra Grabowski

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	7	2	6	15
2	Hungary (HUN)	4	5	2	11
3	Romania (ROU)	2	2	5	9
4	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	1	5
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	2	4
6	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
7	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 entries)		18	18	18	54

1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Kayak

Women's

Kayak

Medals table

References

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