1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland for the second time. The Finnish city had host the championships previously in 1973.

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 eighteenth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 500 m	Costicǎ Olaru (ROU)		Ulrich Papke (GDR)		Anatoliy Volkov (URS)
C-1 1000 m	Vassily Beresa (URS)		Costicǎ Olaru (ROU)		Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH)
C-1 10000 m	Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH)		Gheorghe Titu (ROU)		Tamás Wichmann (HUN)
C-2 500 m	Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović		Soviet Union Ivan Klementiev Sergey Ossadzhiy		Romania Dumitru Betiu Flodor Gurei
C-2 1000 m	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		East Germany Olaf Heukrodt Alexander Schuck		Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović
C-2 10000 m	Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti		Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Soviet Union Sergey Petrenko Yuriy Laptikov

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Vladimir Parfenovich (URS)		Ian Ferguson (NZL)		Andreas Stähle (GDR)
K-1 1000 m	Rüdiger Helm (GDR)		Arturas Veta (URS)		Alan Thompson (NZL)
K-1 10000 m	Einar Rasmussen (NOR)		Milan Janić (YUG)		Rick Daman (NED)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Frank Fischer André Wohllebe		Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Canada Hugh Fisher Alwyn Morris
K-2 1000 m	East Germany Frank Fischer André Wohllebe		Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Austria Werner Bachmeyer Wolfgang Hartl
K-2 10000 m	United Kingdom Stephen Jackson Alain Williams		Hungary István Szabó István Tóth		Sweden Bengt Andersson Karl-Axel Sundqvist
K-4 500 m	East Germany Andreas Stähle Peter Hempel Harald Marg Rüdiger Helm		Soviet Union Sergey Kolokolov Sergey Zhuchray Arturas Veta Aleksandr Vodovatov		Hungary István Imai Attila Csaszar Zoltán Lorinczy András Rajna
K-4 1000 m	Romania Ionel Constantin Nicolae Fedosel Ionel Letcae Angelin Velea		East Germany Andreas Stähle Peter Hempel Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg		Soviet Union Sergey Kolokolov Sergey Zhuchray Arturas Veta Aleksandr Vodovatov
K-4 10000 m	Soviet Union Nikolay Astapkovich Aleksandr Avdeyev Nikolay Baranov Alexander Yermilov		Norway Harald Amudsen Geir Kvillum Lars Ivar Gran Arne Slettsjø		Poland Ireneusz Ciurzyński Andrzej Klimaszewski Ryszard Oborski Krzysztof Szczepański

Women's

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Birgit Fischer (GDR)		Vania Gesheva (BUL)		Maria Ştefan (ROU)
K-2 500 m	East Germany Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn		Hungary Katalin Povázsán Erika Géczi		Sweden Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg
K-4 500 m	East Germany Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Ramona Walther Kathrin Giese		Soviet Union Inna Zhipulina Nelli Yefremova Natalya Kalasnikova Galina Alekseyeva		Romania Tecia Borzanea Agafia Burhaev Natasia Ionescu Maria Ştefan

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	6	3	12
2	East Germany	7	3	1	11
3	Romania	3	3	3	9
4	Hungary	1	2	2	5
5	Yugoslavia	1	1	1	3
6	Norway	1	1	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
8	New Zealand	0	1	1	2
9	Sweden	0	0	2	2
10	United Kingdom	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
12	Austria	0	0	1	1
13	Canada	0	0	1	1
14	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
15	Poland	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