Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m				women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 1000 m		men

Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics was held between 20 October 1964 and 22 October 1964 on Lake Sagami, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Sagamiko, Kanagawa, Japan. There were 7 events, 5 of which were for men and 2 for women. Both of the women's events were 500 metre kayaking events; there were three kayaking and two canoeing events for men, all of which covered 1000 metres. The K-4 event for men was introduced to the Olympic program at these Games, replacing the 4×500 metre K-1 event that was raced in the 1960 Games.

The Romanian canoeists garnered the most medals at 5, but did not win a single gold medal. In that category the Soviet competitors were the most successful, taking three championships. The German team and the Swedish team each won a pair of golds as well.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Jürgen Eschert (EUA)	Andrei Igorov (ROU)	Yevgeny Penyayev (URS)
C-2 1000 metres	Andrei Khimich and Stepan Oshchepkov (URS)	Jean Boudehen and Michel Chapuis (FRA)	Peer Nielsen and John Sørensen (DEN)
K-1 1000 metres	Rolf Peterson (SWE)	Mihály Hesz (HUN)	Aurel Vernescu (ROU)
K-2 1000 metres	Gunnar Utterberg and Sven-Olov Sjödelius (SWE)	Antonius Geurts and Paul Hoekstra (NED)	Heinz Büker and Holger Zander (EUA)
K-4 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Chuzhikov Anatoli Grishin Vyacheslav Ionov Volodymyr Morozov	United Team of Germany (EUA) Günther Perleberg Bernhard Schulze Friedhelm Wentzke Holger Zander	Romania (ROU) Simion Cuciuc Atanase Sciotnic Mihai Ţurcaş Aurel Vernescu

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Khvedosyuk (URS)	Hilde Lauer (ROU)	Marcia Jones (USA)
K-2 500 metres	Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann (EUA)	Francine Fox and Glorianne Perrier (USA)	Hilde Lauer and Cornelia Sideri (ROU)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	0	1	4
2	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2	1	1	4
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Romania (ROU)	0	2	3	5
5	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
9	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

References

• 1964 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2, Part 1. pp. 246–52.