1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark for the second time after hosting the event in 1950. This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. Beginning at these championships, the event would be held on an annual basis in non-Summer Olympic years, a tradition that continues as of 2009.

The men's competition consisted of four Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.

This was the eighth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 1000 m	Tibor Tatai (HUN)		Jerzy Opara (POL)		Jiří Čtvrtečka (TCH)
C-1 10000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)		Afansie Butelchin (ROU)		Nikolay Fedulov (URS)
C-2 1000 m	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov		Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics		Bulgaria Boris Lubenov Sachko Iliev
C-2 10000 m	Romania Petre Maxim Gheorghe Simionov		Soviet Union Valeriy Drybas Andrey Chimish		Sweden Bernt Lindelöf Erik Zeidlitz

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Anatoliy Tischenko (URS)		Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)		Jean-Pierre Burny (BEL)
K-1 1000 m	Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)		Lars Andersson (SWE)		Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL)
K-1 10000 m	Viktor Carev (URS)		Erik Hansen (DEN)		Péter Völgyi (HUN)
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Soviet Union Nikolay Gogol Anatoliy Tischenko Anatoliy Kobrisev Anatoliy Sedasov		Romania Eugen Botez Mihail Zaifu Ion Jacob Aurel Vernescu		Hungary Géza Csapó István Csizmadia Mihály Hesz Jószef Svridó
K-2 500 m	Sweden Lars Andersson Rolf Peterson		Romania Aurel Vernescu Atanase Sciotnic		Austria Gerhard Seibold Günther Pfaff
K-2 1000 m	Austria Gerhard Seibold Günther Pfaff		Sweden Lars Andersson Rolf Peterson		East Germany Klaus-Peter Ebeling Joachim Mattern
K-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Konstantin Kostenko Vyacheslav Kononov		Hungary Imre Szöllősi Vilmos Nagy		Romania Costel Coşniţă Vasilie Simioncenco
K-4 1000 m	Soviet Union Yuriy Filatov Valeriy Didenko Yuriy Zhetchenko Volodymyr Morozov		East Germany Uwe Will Eduard Augustin Klaus-Peter Eberling Joachim Mattern		Hungary István Szabó Peter Várhelyi Csaba Giczi István Timár
K-4 10000 m	Norway Egil Søby Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Jan Johansen		West Germany Horst Mattern Rainer Haines Jochen Schneider Erich Kemnitz		Sweden Kurt Lycjner Willy Tesch Åke Sandin Hans Nilsson

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Lyudmila Pinayeva (URS)		Mieka Jaapies (NED)		Petra Setzkorn (GDR)
K-2 500 m	West Germany Roswitha Esser Annemarie Zimmermann		Soviet Union Lyudmila Besrukova Tamara Zhimanskaya		East Germany Petra Setzkorn Petra Grabowski
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Lyudmila Besrukova Tamara Zhimanskaya Natalya Boyko Nineli Vakula		East Germany Petra Setzkorn Petra Grabowski Ingeborg Loesch Anita Nüssner-Kobuss		West Germany Roswitha Esser Irene Pepinghege Roswitha Spohr Monika Bergmann

Medals table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	8	2	1	11
2	Romania	2	3	1	6
3	Hungary	2	2	3	7
4	Sweden	1	2	2	5
5	West Germany	1	1	1	3
6	Austria	1	0	1	2
7	Norway	1	0	0	1
8	East Germany	0	2	3	5
9	Poland	0	2	1	3
10	Denmark	0	1	0	1
10	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
12	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		16	16	16	48

References

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ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Editions	1938 1948 1950 1954 1958 1963 1966 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 (para) 2013 2014 2015 2016 (para) 2017 2018 2019
Medalists	Men's Canadian Women's Canadian Men's kayak Women's kayak Paracanoe
Years marked (para) were limited to paracanoe events only