1969 Canoe Sprint European Championships

1969 Canoe Sprint European Championships
Location	Moscow, Soviet Union
Start date	15 August 1969
End date	17 August 1969

The 1969 Canoe Sprint European Championships were held in Moscow, Soviet Union from 15 to 17 August 1969. This was the 10th edition of the event. The men's competition consisted of four canoe and nine kayak events. Three events were held for women, all in kayak.

Medal overview

Men's

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 1000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)	4:23,80	Nikolay Fedulov (URS)	4:24,25	Tibor Tatai (HUN)	4:25,51
C-1 10000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)	50:10,60	Gyula Petrikovics (HUN)	50:12,80	Ivan Macarenco (ROU)	50:36,40
C-2 1000 m	Romania Serghei Covaliov Ivan Patzaichin	3:57,30	Romania Constantin Manea Vicol Calabiciov	3:59,02	Soviet Union Vasiliy Kalyagin Valeriy Drybas	4:00,62
C-2 10000 m	Hungary László Hingl István Cserha	45:46,80	Soviet Union Naum Prokupets Mikhail Zamotin	46:13,00	Sweden Bernt Lindelöf Erik Zeidlitz	46:49,20

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Anatoly Tishchenko (URS)	1:53,57	Aurel Vernescu (ROU)	1:55,19	Anatoly Kaptur (URS)	1:55,45
K-1 1000 m	Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS)	4:02,47	Anatoly Tishchenko (URS)	4:03,00	Lars Andersson (SWE)	4:04,79
K-1 10000 m	Viktor Tsaryov (URS)	44:37,80	Erik Hansen (DEN)	44:59,20	Konstantin Kostenko (URS)	45:08,60
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Soviet Union Anatoly Kaptur Valery Bogatov Anatoliy Sedasov Anatoly Tishchenko	7:37,20	Romania Aurel Vernescu Ion Jacob Eugen Botez Mihai Zafiu	7:40,65	Hungary Csaba Giczy Mihály Hesz István Csizmadia Imre Szöllősi	7:41,91
K-2 500 m	Romania Aurel Vernescu Atanase Sciotnic	1:41,45	Soviet Union Vladimir Obraztsov Georgiy Karyukhin	1:42,84	Netherlands Paul Hoekstra Jan Wittenberg	1:43,39
K-2 1000 m	Soviet Union Aleksandr Shaparenko Vladimir Morozov	3:38,80	Sweden Lars Andersson Gunnar Utterberg	3:39,47	Hungary Csaba Giczy István Timár	3:40,00
K-2 10000 m	Hungary Csaba Giczy István Timár	41:32,20	Norway Egil Søby Jan Johansen	41:37,60	Romania Ștefan Pocora Vasilie Simiocenco	41:48,00
K-4 1000 m	East Germany Uwe Will Eduard Augustin Joachim Mattern Peter Ebeling	3:12,03	Romania Haralambie Ivanov Atanase Sciotnic Ion Jacob Roco Ruzhan	3:13,22	Soviet Union Aleksandr Shaparenko Vladimir Morozov Yuri Stetsenko Yuri Filatov	3:14,44
K-4 10000 m	Norway Egil Søby Jan Johansen Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger	36:39,50	Hungary György Czink Vilmos Nagy György Mészáros Laszlo Fabian	36:48,90	Sweden Åke Sandin Willy Tesch Hans Nilsson Per Larsson	36:57,50

Women's

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Tamara Shymanskaya (URS)	2:09,45	Renate Breuer (FRG)	2:11,82	Anna Pfeffer (HUN)	2:12,10
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Lyudmila Lyaushko Tamara Shymanskaya	1:56,52	Hungary Anna Pfeffer Katalin Hollosy	1:58,81	West Germany Annemarie Zimmermann Roswitha Esser	1:59,37
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Lyudmila Lyaushko Tamara Shymanskaya Natalya Boyko Ninel Vakula	1:46,70	West Germany Annemarie Zimmermann Roswitha Esser Renate Breuer Elke Felten	1:47,56	Soviet Union Galina Kiryanova Tatiana Malyarenko Lyubov Beresneva Lidiya Ivanova	1:49,18

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	8	4	5	17
2	Hungary (HUN)	4	3	4	11
3	Romania (ROU)	2	4	2	8
4	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
6	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	1	3
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	3	4
8	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
9	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

• Results at Canoeresults.eu
• Medalists at Sport-komplett.de (in German)
• Medaliile sportivelor români la Campionatoarele Mondiale și Europa (in Romanian)
• Г. М. Краснопевцев, Ю. А. Плеханов. «Гребля на байдарках и каноэ. Справочник» — М.: «Физкультура и спорт», 1985. — 192 с. (in Russian)