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1979 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1979 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Duisburg, West Germany.
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 fifteenth championships in canoe sprint. It was where an incident later referred to as The Česiunas Affair took place when Soviet-born Lithuanian canoer Vladas Česiūnas appeared at the event as a spectator only to vanish. The West German government claimed Česiunas had defected, but the former canoer had returned to the Soviet Union voluntarily several weeks later. During Česiunas' disappearance, he would speak in favor of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, more than two months before the Soviet–Afghan War, but later returned to the Soviet Embassy in Bonn. The Soviets toned down their rhetoric about Česiunas' "disappearance" in the West and changed his mind all the while West Germany continued to maintain that he had been kidnapped.
Medal summary
Men's
Canoe
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-1 500 m | Sergey Postrechin | Ulrich Eicke | Liubomir Ljubenov | |||
| C-1 1000 m | Tamás Wichmann | Liubomir Ljubenov | Ivan Patzaichin | |||
| C-1 10000 m | Tamás Wichmann | Sergey Liminovich | Ivan Patzaichin | |||
| C-2 500 m | ROU | |||||
| Ivan Patzaichin | ||||||
| Petre Capusta | URS | |||||
| Sergey Petrenko | ||||||
| Aleksandr Vinogradov | Poland | |||||
| Marek Łbik | ||||||
| Piotr Pawlowski | ||||||
| C-2 1000 m | URS | |||||
| Vasiliy Jurtzhenko | ||||||
| Yuri Lobanov | HUN | |||||
| Tamás Buday | ||||||
| Oszkár Frey | ROU | |||||
| Toma Simionov | ||||||
| Gheorghe Simionov | ||||||
| C-2 10000 m | URS | |||||
| Vasiliy Jurtzhenko | ||||||
| Yuri Lobanov | ROU | |||||
| Cherasim Munteanu | ||||||
| Gheorge Titu | HUN | |||||
| Tamás Buday | ||||||
| László Vaskúti |
Kayak
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K-1 500 m | Vladimir Parfenovich | John Sumegi | Peter Hempel | |||
| K-1 1000 m | Rüdiger Helm | Ion Bîrlădeanu | Felix Masár | |||
| K-1 10000 m | Milan Janić | Einar Rasmussen | Nikolay Stepanenko | |||
| K-2 500 m | URS | |||||
| Vladimir Parfenovich | ||||||
| Sergei Chukhray | ||||||
| Bernd Olbricht | ||||||
| Rüdiger Helm | France | |||||
| Alain Lebas | ||||||
| Francis Hervieu | ||||||
| K-2 1000 m | ||||||
| Einar Rasmussen | ||||||
| Olaf Søyland | HUN | |||||
| Zoltán Bakó | ||||||
| István Szabó | URS | |||||
| Sergei Chukhray | ||||||
| Vladimir Tainikov | ||||||
| K-2 10000 m | ROU | |||||
| Nicușor Eșanu | ||||||
| Ion Bîrlădeanu | URS | |||||
| Nikolay Astapkovich | ||||||
| Vladimir Romanovsky | ESP | |||||
| Herminio Menéndez | ||||||
| Luis Gregorio Ramos | ||||||
| K-4 500 m | ||||||
| Bernd Duvigneau | ||||||
| Harald Marg | ||||||
| Jürgen Dittrich | ||||||
| Roland Graupner | URS | |||||
| Sergey Zhinkarenko | ||||||
| Ionas Sautra | ||||||
| Sergei Chukhray | ||||||
| Vladimir Tainikov | Poland | |||||
| Ryszard Oborski | ||||||
| Daniel Wełna | ||||||
| Grzegorz Kołtan | ||||||
| Grzegorz Śledziewski | ||||||
| K-4 1000 m | ||||||
| Bernd Duvigneau | ||||||
| Rüdiger Helm | ||||||
| Harald Marg | ||||||
| Bernd Olbricht | Poland | |||||
| Ryszard Oborski | ||||||
| Daniel Wełna | ||||||
| Grzegorz Kołtan | ||||||
| Grzegorz Śledziewski | URS | |||||
| Aleksandr Shaparenko | ||||||
| Sergei Nagornyi | ||||||
| Aleksandr Avdeyev | ||||||
| Ionas Sautra | ||||||
| K-4 10000 m | URS | |||||
| Aleksandr Shaparenko | ||||||
| Sergey Nikolskiy | ||||||
| Vladimir Morozov | ||||||
| Aleksandr Avdeyev | Poland | |||||
| Andrzej Klimaszewski | ||||||
| Krzysztof Lepianka | ||||||
| Zbigniew Torzecki | ||||||
| Zdzisław Szubski | HUN | |||||
| Tamás Benkő | ||||||
| Péter Konecsny | ||||||
| László Szabó | ||||||
| Zoltán Romhany |
Women's
Kayak
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K-1 500 m | Roswitha Eberl | Galina Alekseyeva | Klára Rajnai | |||
| K-2 500 m | URS | |||||
| Natalya Kalashinkova | ||||||
| Nina Doroh | ||||||
| Marion Rösiger | ||||||
| Martina Bischof | ROU | |||||
| Agafia Orlov | ||||||
| Natasia Nichitov | ||||||
| K-4 500 m | ||||||
| Marion Rösiger | ||||||
| Martina Bischof | ||||||
| Birgit Fischer | ||||||
| Roswitha Eberl | URS | |||||
| Galina Alekseyeva | ||||||
| Nadezhda Trachimenok | ||||||
| Tatyana Korzhunova | ||||||
| Larissa Nadviga | ROU | |||||
| Agafia Orlov | ||||||
| Natasia Nichitov | ||||||
| Maria Nicolae | ||||||
| Adriana Tarasov |
Medals table
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.
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Pairs 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 493.
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