Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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Erik Hansen at the 1968 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 table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medal summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3, Part 2. Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine pp. 614–21. (in English and French)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2006-12-20.