1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in lake Kaukajärvi, Tampere, Finland. Kaukajärvi Canoe/Kayak venue on map..

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.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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	Silver	Bronze
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	Silver	Bronze
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

Medal summary