Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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	Lyubomir Lyubenov  Bulgaria	Olaf Heukrodt  East Germany
C-1 1000 metres	Lyubomir Lyubenov  Bulgaria	Sergei Postrekhin  Soviet Union	Eckhard Leue  East Germany
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	John Sumegi  Australia	Vasile Dîba  Romania
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm  East Germany	Alain Lebas  France	Ion Bîrlădeanu  Romania
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	Vanja Gesheva  Bulgaria	Antonina Melnikova  Soviet Union
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

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" (PDF). pp. 183–97.Template:En icon & Template:Fr icon