1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships explained

The 1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Nottingham, Great Britain.

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 sixteenth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time
C-1 500 m
C-1 1000 m
C-1 10000 m
C-2 500 m	László Foltán István Vaskúti		Edem Muradosilov Vigantas Zhekaitis		Liubomir Ljubenov Sevdalin Ilkov
C-2 1000 m	Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja		Edem Muradosilov Vigantas Zhekaitis
C-2 10000 m	Tamás Buday László Vaskúti		Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Jiří Vrdlovec Petr Kubíček

Kayak

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time
K-1 500 m
K-1 1000 m
K-1 10000 m
K-2 500 m	Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna		Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer
K-2 1000 m	Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer		Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna
K-2 10000 m	Nikolay Astapkovich Vladimir Romanovsky		István Szabó István Joós		Ion Bîrlădeanu Nicușor Eșanu
K-4 500 m	Igor Gaydamaka Sergey Krivozheyev Jüri Poljans Aleksander Vodovatov		Jens Norqvist Lars-Erik Moberg Per-Inge Bengtsson Thomas Ohlsson		Frank-Peter Bischof André Wohllebe Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg
K-4 1000 m	Rüdiger Helm Frank-Peter Bischof Peter Hempel Harald Marg		Sergey Kolokolov Aleksandr Volkovskiy Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov		Matthias Seack Andreas Flunker Frank Renner Oliver Seack
K-4 10000 m	Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov Sergey Kolokolov Vasiliy Silenkov		Leszek Jamroziński Andrzej Klimaszewski Ryszard Oborski Zdzisław Szubski		Stephen Brown Christopher Canham Stephan Jackson Alan Williams

Women's

Kayak

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Time
K-1 500 m
K-2 500 m	Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn		Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg		Agafia Buhaev Maria Ştefan
K-4 500 m	Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Kathrin Stoll Roswitha Eberl		Natalya Filonich Larissa Nadviga Inna Zhipulina Lyubov Orechova		Karin Olsson Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg Eva Karlsson

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.