Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m				women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 1000 m		men

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, seven events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1964. Lake Xochimilco was where the events took place.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Tibor Tatai  Hungary	Detlef Lewe  West Germany	Vitaly Galkov  Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin and Serghei Covaliov  Romania	Tamás Wichmann and Gyula Petrikovics  Hungary	Naum Prokupets and Mikhail Zamotin  Soviet Union
K-1 1000 metres	Mihály Hesz  Hungary	Aleksandr Shaparenko  Soviet Union	Erik Hansen  Denmark
K-2 1000 metres	Aleksandr Shaparenko and Volodymyr Morozov  Soviet Union	Csaba Giczi and István Timár  Hungary	Gerhard Siebold and Günther Pfaff  Austria
K-4 1000 metres	Norway (NOR) Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Romania (ROU) Anton Calenic Haralambie Ivanov Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Ţurcaş	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Giczi Imre Szöllősi István Timár István Csizmadia

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Pinayeva  Soviet Union	Renate Breuer  West Germany	Viorica Dumitru  Romania
K-2 500 metres	Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann  West Germany	Anna Pfeffer and Katalin Rozsnyói  Hungary	Lyudmila Pinayeva and Antonina Seredina  Soviet Union

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 (ROU)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3, Part 2. pp. 614–21. (in English) & (in French)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20. 

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