1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mexico City, Mexico in neighboring Xochimilco. This marked the first time the championships took place outside Europe. As of 2009^[update], all championships have taken place either in Europe or North America. The lake was where the canoeing and rowing events took place for the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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 eleventh championships in canoe sprint.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 m	Sergey Petrenko (URS)	Klaus Zeisler (GDR)	Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)
C-1 1000 m	Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS)	Klaus Zeisler (GDR)	Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)
C-1 10000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)	Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS)	Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)
C-2 500 m	Soviet Union Aleksandr Vinogradov Yuri Lobanov	Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov	Czechoslovakia Tomáš Šach Jiří Čtvrtečka
C-2 1000 m	Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov	Poland Jerzy Opara Andrzej Gronowicz	Romania Cherasim Munteanu Vasile Serghei
C-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov	Hungary Tamás Buday Gábor Haraszti	France Alain Alcard Jean-Paul Cézard

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Vasile Dîba (ROU)	Géza Csapó (HUN)	Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)
K-1 1000 m	Géza Csapó (HUN)	Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)	Oreste Perri (ITA)
K-1 10000 m	Oreste Perri (ITA)	Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)	Péter Völgyi (HUN)
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Romania Vasile Dîba Ernst Pavel Atanase Sciotnic Mihai Zafiu	Soviet Union Vitaliy Trukshin Sergei Chukhray Anatoliy Kobrisev Nikolay Astapkovich	Poland Ryszard Oborski Grzegorz Śledziewski Kazimierz Górecki Andrzej Matysiak
K-2 500 m	Poland Ryszard Oborski Grzegorz Śledziewski	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai	East Germany Ulrich Hellige Herbert Laabs
K-2 1000 m	Hungary Zoltán Bakó István Szabó	Soviet Union Vladimir Kozubin Mikhail Afansiyev	East Germany Volkmar Thiede Rüdiger Helm
K-2 10000 m	Romania Ion Terente Antrop Variabev	Belgium Jos Broekx Paul Stinckens	Soviet Union Konstantin Kostenko Vyacheslav Kononov
K-4 1000 m	East Germany Herbert Laabs Ulrich Hellige Jürgen Lehnert Bernd Duvigneau	Soviet Union Yuri Filatov Aleksandr Degtyarov Aleksandr Kuprikov Nikolay Astapkovich	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai Csongor Vargha Csaba Giczy
K-4 10000 m	Soviet Union Leonid Derevyanko Nikolai Gorbachev Pytor Zhurga Anatoliy Zharkin	Hungary Csaba Giczy Csongor Vargha István Szabó Zoltán Romhanyi	Poland Ryszard Oborski Kazimierz Górecki Grzegorz Kołtan Andrzej Matysiak

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Anke Ohde (GDR)	Nina Gopova (URS)	Maria Cosma (ROU)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Bärbel Köster Anke Ohde	Romania Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichiforov	Hungary Ilona Tőzsér Mária Zakariás
K-4 500 m	East Germany Ilse Kaschube Bärbel Köster Anke Ohde Carola Zirzow	Soviet Union Nina Gopova Larissa Kabakova Tatyana Korzhunova Galina Kreft	Romania Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichiforov Maria Cosma Agafia Orlov

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	7	1	14
2	East Germany	4	2	2	8
3	Hungary	3	4	3	10
4	Romania	3	2	6	11
5	Poland	1	2	3	6
6	Italy	1	0	1	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
8	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
8	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		18	18	18	54

1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Kayak

Women's

Kayak

Medals table

References

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