Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics was held between 20 October 1964 and 22 October 1964 on Lake Sagami, 60 kilometres from Tokyo, Japan. There were 7 events, 5 of which were for men and 2 for women. Both of the women's events were 500 metre kayaking events; there were three kayaking and two canoeing events for men, all of which covered 1000 metres. The K-4 event for men was introduced to the Olympic program at these Games, replacing the 4×500 metre K-1 event that was raced in the 1960 Games.

The Romanian canoeists garnered the most medals at 5, but did not win a single gold medal. In that category the Soviet competitors were the most successful, taking three championships. The German team and the Swedish team each won a pair of golds as well.

1 Medal summary
- 1.1 Men's events
- 1.2 Women's events
2 Medal table
3 Sources

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Jürgen Eschert United Team of Germany (EUA)	Andrei Igorov Romania (ROM)	Yevgeni Penyaev Soviet Union (URS)
C-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Andrei Khimich Stepan Oshchepkov	France (FRA) Jean Boudehen Michel Chapuis	Denmark (DEN) Peer Nielsen John Sörensen
K-1 1000 metres	Rolf Peterson Sweden (SWE)	Mihaly Hesz Hungary (HUN)	Aurel Vernescu Romania (ROM)
K-2 1000 metres	Sweden (SWE) Sven-Olov Sjödelius Gunnar Utterberg	Netherlands (NED) Antonius Geurts Paulus Hoekstra	United Team of Germany (EUA) Heinz Büker Holger Zander
K-4 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Chuzhikov Anatoli Grishin Vyacheslav Ionov Vladimir Morozov	United Team of Germany (EUA) Günther Perleberg Bernhard Schulze Friedhelm Wentzke Holger Zander	Romania (ROM) Simion Cuciuc Atanase Sciotnic Mihai Turcas Aurel Vernescu

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Khvedosyuk-Pinaeva Soviet Union (URS)	Hilde Lauer Romania (ROM)	Marcia Jones-Smoke United States (USA)
K-2 500 metres	United Team of Germany (EUA) Roswitha Esser Annemarie Zimmermann	United States (USA) Francine Fox Glorianne Perrier	Romania (ROM) Hilde Lauer Cornelia Sideri

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	0	1	4
2	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	1	1	4
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Romania (ROM)	0	2	3	5
5	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
9	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Sources

Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.
Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.

Events at the 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo)
Athletics • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Judo • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Volleyball • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
1924 (demonstration) • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (women)