Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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.

Medal summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Medal table

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
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3, Part 2. pp. 614–21. Template:En icon & Template:Fr icon
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.