1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mechelen, Belgium.

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 nineteenth championships in canoe sprint.

Contents

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
C-1 500 m  Olaf Heukrodt (GDR)  Anatoliy Volkov (URS)  Aurel Macarencu (ROU)
C-1 1000 m  Ivan Klementiev (URS)  Ulrich Eicke (FRG)  Aurel Macarencu (ROU)
C-1 10000 m  Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH)  Takhir Kamaletdinov (URS)  Attila Lipták (HUN)
C-2 500 m  Hungary
János Sarsui Kis
István Vaskúti
 Poland
Marek Łbik
Marek Dopierała
 East Germany
Ulrich Papke
Uwe Madeja
C-2 1000 m  East Germany
Olaf Heukrodt
Alexander Schuck
 Yugoslavia
Matija Ljubek
Mirko Nišović
 Poland
Marek Łbik
Marek Dopierała
C-2 10000 m  Yugoslavia
Matija Ljubek
Mirko Nišović
 United Kingdom
Andrew Train
Stephen Train
 Bulgaria
Matei Kapalkov
Tosho Kapalkov

Kayak

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 500 m  Andreas Stähle (GDR)  Oliver Seack (FRG)  Bernard Brégeon (FRA)
K-1 1000 m  Ferenc Csipes (HUN)  Heiko Zeinke (GDR)  Kalle Sundqvist (SWE)
K-1 10000 m  Greg Barton (USA)  László Nieberl (HUN)  Grant Bramwell (NZL)
K-2 500 m  New Zealand
Alan Thompson
Paul MacDonald
 East Germany
Guido Behlin
Hans-Jörg Bliesner
 Soviet Union
Viktor Pusev
Sergey Superata
K-2 1000 m  France
Pascal Boucherit
Philippe Boccara
 Soviet Union
Viktor Pusev
Sergey Superata
 Canada
Don Brien
Colin Shaw
K-2 10000 m  Sweden
Mikael Berger
Conny Edholm
 Hungary
István Szabó
István Tóth
 Italy
Francesco Uberti
Daniele Scarpa
K-4 500 m  East Germany
André Wohllebe
Frank Fischer
Peter Hempel
Heiko Zinke
 Soviet Union
Aleksandr Belov
Igor Gaidamaka
Viktor Denisov
Aleksandr Vodovatov
 Sweden
Karl-Axel Sundqvist
Per-Inge Bengtsson
Lars-Erik Möberg
Per Lundh
K-4 1000 m  Sweden
Per-Inge Bengtsson
Lars-Erik Moberg
Karl-Axel Sundqvist
Bengt Andersson
 Soviet Union
Aleksandr Myzgin
Igor Gaidamaka
Arturas Veta
Aleksandr Vodovatov
 East Germany
André Wohllebe
Frank Fischer
Peter Hempel
Heiko Zinke
K-4 10000 m  Hungary
Zoltán Böjti
Tibor Helyi
Zoltán Kovács
Kálmán Petrovics
 Sweden
Tommy Karls
Bengt Andersson
Peter Ekström
Torbjörn Thoresson
 Denmark
Brian Kragh
Thor Nielsen
Lars Koch
Henrik Christiansen

Women's

Kayak

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 500 m  Birgit Schmidt-Fischer (GDR)  Nelli Yefremova (URS)  Agneta Andersson (SWE)
K-2 500 m  East Germany
Birgit Fischer
Carsta Kühn
 Hungary
Éva Rakusz
Rita Kőbán
 Netherlands
Annemiek Derckx
Annemarie Cox
K-4 500 m  East Germany
Birgit Fischer
Carsta Kühn
Heike Singer
Kathrin Giese
 Soviet Union
Yelena Dudina
Nelli Yefremova
Irina Salomykova
Guinara Zharafutdinova
 Hungary
Katalin Gyulai
Erika Géczi
Éva Rakusz
Rita Kőbán

Medals table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  East Germany 7 2 2 11
2  Soviet Union 1 7 1 9
3  Hungary 3 3 2 8
4  Sweden 2 1 3 6
5  Yugoslavia 1 1 0 2
6  France 1 0 1 2
7  New Zealand 1 0 1 2
8  West Germany 0 2 0 2
9  Poland 0 1 1 2
10  Romania 0 0 2 2
11  Czechoslovakia 1 0 0 1
12  United States 1 0 0 1
13  United Kingdom 0 1 0 1
14  Bulgaria 0 0 1 1
15  Canada 0 0 1 1
16  Denmark 0 0 1 1
17  Italy 0 0 1 1
18  Netherlands 0 0 1 1
Total 18 18 18 54

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