1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Nottingham, Great Britain.

The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.

This was the sixteenth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 500 m	Olaf Heukrodt (GDR)		Gennadiy Liseichikov (URS)		János Sarsui Kis (HUN)
C-1 1000 m	Ulrich Papke (GDR)		Tamás Buday (HUN)		Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH)
C-1 10000 m	Tamás Wichmann (HUN)		Matija Ljubek (YUG)		Sergey Liminovich (URS)
C-2 500 m	Hungary László Foltan István Vaskúti		Soviet Union Edem Muradosilov Vigantas Zhekaitis		Bulgaria Liubomir Ljubenov Sevdalin Ilkov
C-2 1000 m	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		East Germany Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja		Soviet Union Edem Muradosilov Vigantas Zhekaitis
C-2 10000 m	Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti		Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Czechoslovakia Jiří Vrdlovec Petr Kubíček

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Vladimir Parfenovich (URS)		Ion Bîrlădeanu (ROU)		Lars-Erik Möberg (SWE)
K-1 1000 m	Rüdiger Helm (GDR)		Ion Bîrlădeanu (ROU)		Einar Rasmussen (NOR)
K-1 10000 m	Einar Rasmussen (NOR)		Milan Janić (YUG)		István Fábián (HUN)
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Poland Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna		East Germany Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer
K-2 1000 m	Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		East Germany Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer		Poland Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna
K-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Nikolay Astapkovich Vladimir Romanovskiy		Hungary István Szabó István Joós		Romania Ion Bîrlădeanu Nicuşor Eşanu
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Igor Gaydamaka Sergey Krivozheyev Igor Polianis Aleksander Vodovatov		Sweden Jens Norqvist Lars-Erik Möberg Per-Inge Bengtsson Thomas Ohlsson		East Germany Frank-Peter Bischof André Wohllebe Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg
K-4 1000 m	East Germany Rüdiger Helm Frank-Peter Bischof Peter Hempel Harald Marg		Soviet Union Sergey Kolokolov Aleksandr Volkovskiy Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov		West Germany Matthias Seack Andreas Flunker Frank Renner Oliver Seack
K-4 10000 m	Soviet Union Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov Sergey Kolokolov Vasiliy Silenkov		Poland Leszek Jamroziński Andrzej Klimaszewski Ryszard Oborski Zdzisław Szubski		United Kingdom Stephen Brown Christopher Canham Stephan Jackson Alain Williams

Women's

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Birgit Fischer (GDR)		Éva Rakusz (HUN)		Agneta Andersson (SWE)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn		Sweden Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg		Romania Agafia Buhaev Maria Ştefan
K-4 500 m	East Germany Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Kathrin Stoll Roswitha Eberl		Soviet Union Natalya Filonich Larissa Nadviga Inna Zhipulina Lyubov Orechova		Sweden Karin Olsson Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg Eva Karlsson

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	4	2	12
2	East Germany	7	2	2	11
3	Hungary	3	3	2	8
4	Romania	1	3	2	6
5	Sweden	0	2	3	5
6	Poland	0	2	1	3
7	Norway	1	0	1	2
8	Yugoslavia	0	2	0	2
9	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
10	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
11	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
12	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Editions	1938 1948 1950 1954 1958 1963 1966 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2017
Medalists	Men's Canadian Women's Canadian Men's kayak Women's kayak Paracanoe