Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, seven events in flatwater canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1964.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table 3 Reference

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Tibor Tatai Hungary (HUN)	Detlef Lewe West Germany (FRG)	Vitali Galkov Soviet Union (URS)
C-2 1000 metres	Romania (ROM) Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Hungary (HUN) Tamas Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics	Soviet Union (URS) Naum Prokupets Mikhail Zamotin
K-1 1000 metres	Mihaly Hesz Hungary (HUN)	Aleksandr Shaparenko Soviet Union (URS)	Erik Hansen Denmark (DEN)
K-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Shaparenko Volodymyr Morozov	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Giczi Istvan Timar	Austria (AUT) Gerhard Seibold Günther Pfaff
K-4 1000 metres	Norway (NOR) Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Romania (ROM) Anton Calenic Haralambie Ivanov Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Turcas	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Giczi Imre Szöllösi Istvan Timar Istvan Csizmadia

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Khvedosyuk-Pinaeva Soviet Union (URS)	Renate Breuer-Dukat West Germany (FRG)	Viorica Dumitru Romania (ROM)
K-2 500 metres	West Germany (FRG) Annemarie Zimmermann Roswitha Esser	Hungary (HUN) Anna Pfeffer Katalin Sagi-Rozsnyoi	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Khvedosyuk-Pinaeva Antonina Seredina

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	3	6
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
4	Romania (ROM)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on December 20, 2006.

Events at the 1968 Summer Olympics (Mexico City)
Athletics • Basketball • Basque pelota (demonstration) • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis (demonstration) • 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)