ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

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The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoeing organised by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non-Summer Olympic years since 1970. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing.

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Explanation of events [edit]

Canoe sprint competitions are broken up into Canadian canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in kayaks (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200 metres (660 ft), 500 metres (1,600 ft), 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), or 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) long. When a competition is listed as a C-2 500 m event as an example, it means two people are in a canoe competing at a 500 metres (1,600 ft) distance.[1]

Host cities [edit]

Men's Canadian [edit]

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's Canadian.

Men's kayak [edit]

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in men's kayak.

Women's kayak [edit]

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in women's kayak. Women's C-1 200 m event for 2010 is included in this section.

Paracanoe [edit]

Please see List of ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in paracanoe.

Medals table [edit]

This medal table includes all events except the Paracanoe (formerly paddleability) and the Exhibition events. The current historical medal count of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships as the 2010 championships is as follows:

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Hungary 172 132 113 417
2  Soviet Union (1950–91) 102 80 66 248
3  Germany (1938, 1991–present) 90 69 58 215
4  Romania 48 73 64 185
5  East Germany (1950–90) 73 36 36 145
6  Poland 26 61 57 144
7  Sweden 30 32 43 105
8  Russia (Since 1993) 33 27 32 92
9  Canada 17 20 20 57
10  West Germany (1950–90) 14 19 24 57
11  Spain 12 17 23 52
12  Czechoslovakia (1938–91) 9 15 21 45
13  France 10 15 18 44
14  Italy 13 18 10 42
15  Bulgaria 8 10 24 42
16  Norway 13 14 13 40
17  Denmark 11 13 14 38
18  Belarus (Since 1993) 16 12 8 36
19  Australia 9 12 13 34
20  Czech Republic (Since 1993) 4 20 9 33
21  Ukraine (Since 1993) 5 9 18 32
22  Slovakia (Since 1993) 9 7 9 25
23  Austria 4 6 13 23
24  Yugoslavia (1938–2002) 8 8 5 21
25  United Kingdom 6 7 8 21
26  Lithuania (Since 1990) 5 3 8 16
27  Cuba 3 4 6 13
28  Finland 7 3 3 12
29  New Zealand 4 5 3 12
30  China 0 6 5 11
31  United States 5 3 2 10
32  Uzbekistan (Since 1993) 2 2 4 8
33  Netherlands 0 4 4 8
34  Belgium 1 3 2 6
35  Serbia (Since 2006) 1 1 4 6
36  Israel (Since 1948) 2 1 2 5
37  Azerbaijan (Since 1991) 1 2 1 4
38  Argentina 0 2 2 4
39  Latvia (Since 1993) 2 0 1 3
40  Portugal 0 1 2 3
41  Mexico 1 0 1 2
42  Slovenia (since 1991) 0 1 1 2
43  Serbia and Montenegro (2003-6) 1 0 0 1
44  Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1
44  South Africa 0 0 1 1
44  Japan 0 0 1 1
Total 776 774 776 2326

Therese Zens represented Saar when she won a gold medal in 1954. This is recorded for West Germany in the official tables.

References [edit]

  1. ^ "About Canoe Sprint". International Canoe Federation. not listed on webpage. Retrieved 6 October 2010. 
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