1982 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1982 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the record fourth time. The Yugoslavian (now Serbian) city had host the championships previously in 1971, 1975, and 1978.

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 seventeenth championships in canoe sprint.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 m	Olaf Heukrodt (GDR)	János Sarusi Kis (HUN)	Sergey Postrechin (URS)
C-1 1000 m	Jörg Schmidt (GDR)	Dezső Csépai (HUN)	Vassily Beresa (URS)
C-1 10000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)	Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH)	Gheorghe Titu (ROU)
C-2 500 m	Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović	Soviet Union Yuriy Laptikov Sergey Petrenko	Hungary László Foltán István Vaskúti
C-2 1000 m	Hungary János Sarusi Kis Gyula Hajdu	Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović	East Germany Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja
C-2 10000 m	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov	Soviet Union Vassily Beresa Edem Muradosilov	Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Vladimir Parfenovich (URS)	Peter Hempel (GDR)	Lars-Erik Moberg (SWE)
K-1 1000 m	Rüdiger Helm (GDR)	Alan Thompson (NZL)	Einar Rasmussen (NOR)
K-1 10000 m	Milan Janić (YUG)	Einar Rasmussen (NOR)	Nikolay Astapkovich (URS)
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata	New Zealand Alan Thompson Paul MacDonald	West Germany Matthias Seack Oliver Seack
K-2 1000 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata	Canada Alwyn Morris Hugh Fisher	Spain Luis Gregorio Ramos Herminio Rodriguez
K-2 10000 m	France Bernard Brégeon Patrick Lefoulon	Netherlands Ron Stevens Gert Jan Lebbink	Hungary István Szabó István Tóth
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Sergey Krivozheyev Igor Gaydamaka Sergey Kolokolov Aleksander Vodovatov	East Germany Frank-Peter Bischof Frank Fischer Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg	Sweden Jens Nordqvist Lars-Erik Moberg Per-Inge Bengtsson Thomas Ohlsson
K-4 1000 m	Sweden Per-Inge Bengtsson Lars-Erik Moberg Thomas Ohlsson Bengt Andersson	East Germany Frank-Peter Bischof Peter Hempel Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg	West Germany Matthias Seack Oliver Seack Frank Renner Bernd Hessel
K-4 10000 m	Soviet Union Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov Sergei Chukhray Vladimir Romanovsky	Romania Petrica Dimofte Florian Marinescu Ionel Igorov Anghei Coman	Hungary Kálmán Petrikovics Tamás Szekes László Rasztotzky Tibor Helyl

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Birgit Fischer (GDR)	Agneta Andersson (SWE)	Éva Rakusz (HUN)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Birgit Fischer Bettina Streussel	Hungary Katalin Povázsán Erika Géczi	Sweden Karin Olsson Agneta Andersson
K-4 500 m	East Germany Birgit Fischer Bettina Streussel Roswitha Eberl Kathrin Giese	Soviet Union Inna Zhipulina Nelli Yefremova Yekaterina Golubeva Saba Komkova	Hungary Agnes Dragos Erika Géczi Katalin Povázsán Éva Rakusz

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	6	3	1	10
2	Soviet Union (URS)	5	3	3	11
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	6	11
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	1	0	3
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	3	5
6	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
7	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
8	New Zealand (NZL)	0	2	0	2
9	Norway (NOR)	0	1	1	2
10	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
13	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	2	2
14	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		18	18	18	54

1982 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Kayak

Women's

Kayak

Medals table

References

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