1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland.

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 tenth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 500 m	Miklós Darvas (HUN)		Nikolay Fedulov (URS)		Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)
C-1 1000 m	Ivan Patzaichin (ROU)		Romualdas Vinojinidis (URS)		Tamás Wichmann (HUN)
C-1 10000 m	Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS)		Lipat Varabiev (ROU)		Tamás Wichmann (HUN)
C-2 500 m	Soviet Union Oleg Kaidov Vitaliy Slobodenyuk		Romania Georghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov		Poland Jerzy Opara Andrzej Gronowicz
C-2 1000 m	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov		Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuriy Lobanov		Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics
C-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuriy Lobanov		Romania Vasile Serghei Cherasim Munteanu		Hungary Tamás Buday Gábor Haraszti

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Géza Csapó (HUN)		Vitaliy Trukshin (URS)		Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)
K-1 1000 m	Géza Csapó (HUN)		Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)		Aleksandr Shaporenko (URS)
K-1 10000 m	Aleksandr Shaporenko (URS)		Péter Völgyi (HUN)		Jörgen Andersen (DEN)
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Soviet Union Vitaliy Trukshin Anatoliy Kobrisev Sergey Nikolskiy Oleg Zhegoyev		Hungary István Csizmadia Zoltán Angyal Robert Schaffhauser Géza Csapó		Romania Atanase Sciotnic Vasile Simioncenco Roman Vartolomeu Mihail Zaifu
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Nikolay Gogol Pytor Greshta		Hungary József Deme János Rátkai		Romania Ion Dragulsci Ernst Pavel
K-2 1000 m	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai		Romania Ion Dragulsci Ernst Pavel		East Germany Herbert Laabs Joachim Mattern
K-2 10000 m	Hungary Zoltán Bakó Géza Csapó		Romania Ion Terente Antrop Variabev		Belgium Jos Broeckx Paul Stinckens
K-4 1000 m	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai Csongor Vargha Csaba Giczi		Soviet Union Yuriy Filatov Volodymyr Morozov Nikolay Gogol Valeriy Didenko		East Germany Norbert Paschke Peter Korsch Jürgen Lehnert Harald Marg
K-4 10000 m	Hungary Csaba Giczi Tibor Nagy Csongor Vargha Géza Kralován		West Germany Hans-Erich Pasch Horst Mattern Rudolf Blass Edurard Fischer		Romania Atanase Sciotnic Cuprian Macareanu Costel Coşniţă Vasilie Simioncenco

Women's

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Nina Gopova (URS)		Petra Borzym (GDR)		Victoria Dumitru (ROU)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Ilse Kaschube Petra Borzym		Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Nina Gopova		Hungary Anna Pfeffer Ilona Tözser
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Nina Gopova Larissa Kabakova Tamara Popova		Hungary Anna Pfeffer Ilona Tözser Erzsabet Horvárth Mária Zakariás		Romania Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichoforov Maria Cosma Maria Ivanov

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	8	6	1	15
2	Hungary	7	4	5	16
3	Romania	2	5	6	13
4	East Germany	1	1	2	4
5	Poland	0	1	2	3
6	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Belgium	0	0	1	1
8	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.

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