Canoeing_at_the_1968_Summer_Olympics

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Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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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.

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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 entries)		7	7	7	21

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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Lyudmila Pinayeva Soviet Union	Renate Breuer West Germany	Viorica Dumitru Romania
K-2 500 metres details	Annemarie Zimmermann and Roswitha Esser (FRG)	Anna Pfeffer and Katalin Rozsnyói (HUN)	Lyudmila Pinayeva and Antonina Seredina (URS)

Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics