Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 1000 m		men

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The canoeing schedule began on 30 July and ended on 2 August. 11 canoeing events were contested.

Medal Summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Sergei Postrekhin Soviet Union (URS)	Lyubomir Lyubenov Bulgaria (BUL)	Olaf Heukrodt East Germany (GDR)
C-1 1000 metres	Lyubomir Lyubenov Bulgaria (BUL)	Sergei Postrekhin Soviet Union (URS)	Eckhard Leue East Germany (GDR)
C-2 500 metres	Hungary (HUN) László Foltán István Vaskúti	Romania (ROU) Ivan Potzaichin Petre Capusta	Bulgaria (BUL) Borislav Ananiev Nikolai Ilkov
C-2 1000 metres	Romania (ROU) Ivan Potzaichin Toma Simionov	East Germany (GDR) Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja	Soviet Union (URS) Vasily Yurchenko Yuri Lobanov
K-1 500 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich Soviet Union (URS)	John Sumegi Australia (AUS)	Vasile Dîba Romania (ROU)
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm East Germany (GDR)	Alain Lebas France (FRA)	Ion Bîrlădeanu Romania (ROU)
K-2 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhray	Spain (ESP) Herminio Menéndez Guillermo del Riego	East Germany (GDR) Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht
K-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhray	Hungary (HUN) István Szabó István Joós	Spain (ESP) Luis Gregorio Ramos Herminio Menéndez
K-4 1000 metres	East Germany (GDR) Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht Harald Marg Bernd Duvigneau	Romania (ROU) Mihai Zafiu Vasile Dîba Ion Geantă Nicuşor Eşanu	Bulgaria (BUL) Borislav Borisov Bozhidar Milenkov Lazar Khristov Ivan Manev

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Birgit Fischer East Germany (GDR)	Vanja Gesheva Bulgaria (BUL)	Antonina Melnikova Soviet Union (URS)
K-2 500 metres	East Germany (GDR) Carsta Genäuß Martina Bischof	Soviet Union (URS) Galina Alexeyeva Nina Trofimova	Hungary (HUN) Éva Rakusz Mária Zakariás

Medal table

All events took place at the Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin in Krylatskoye

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	2	8
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	1	3	8
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	2	5
	Romania (ROU)	1	2	2	5
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
6	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
7	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1

References

• "1980 Summer Olympics official report" 3. pp. 183–97. (English) & (French)