Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics (women's K2) on a stamp of Japan

Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics was held between 20 October 1964 and 22 October 1964 on Lake Sagami, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Sagamiko, Kanagawa, Japan. There were 7 events, 5 of which were for men and 2 for women. Both of the women's events were 500 metre kayaking events; there were three kayaking and two canoeing events for men, all of which covered 1000 metres. The K-4 event for men was introduced to the Olympic program at these Games, replacing the 4×500 metre K-1 event that was raced in the 1960 Games.

The Romanian canoeists garnered the most medals at 5, but did not win a single gold medal. In that category the Soviet competitors were the most successful, taking three championships. The German team and the Swedish team each won a pair of golds as well.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Jürgen Eschert  United Team of Germany	Andrei Igorov  Romania	Yevgeny Penyayev  Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres	Andrei Khimich and Stepan Oshchepkov  Soviet Union	Jean Boudehen and Michel Chapuis  France	Peer Nielsen and John Sørensen  Denmark
K-1 1000 metres	Rolf Peterson  Sweden	Mihály Hesz  Hungary	Aurel Vernescu  Romania
K-2 1000 metres	Gunnar Utterberg and Sven-Olov Sjödelius  Sweden	Antonius Geurts and Paul Hoekstra  Netherlands	Heinz Büker and Holger Zander  United Team of Germany
K-4 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Chuzhikov Anatoli Grishin Vyacheslav Ionov Volodymyr Morozov	United Team of Germany (EUA) Günther Perleberg Bernhard Schulze Friedhelm Wentzke Holger Zander	Romania (ROU) Simion Cuciuc Atanase Sciotnic Mihai Ţurcaş Aurel Vernescu

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Khvedosyuk  Soviet Union	Hilde Lauer  Romania	Marcia Jones  United States
K-2 500 metres	Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann  United Team of Germany	Francine Fox and Glorianne Perrier  United States	Hilde Lauer and Cornelia Sideri  Romania

Medal table

1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	0	1	4
2	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	1	1	4
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Romania (ROU)	0	2	3	5
5	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
9	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

References

• Canoeing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games. sports-reference.com
• 1964 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2, Part 1. pp. 246–52.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.