Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Canoeing; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
No. of events	7

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

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 Vladimir 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

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


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
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		7	7	7	21

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