Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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C-1 500 m	men
C-1 1000 m	men
C-2 500 m	men
C-2 1000 m	men
K-1 500 m	men	women
K-1 1000 m	men
K-2 500 m	men	women
K-2 1000 m	men
K-4 1000 m	men

Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in the Krylatskoe Canoeing and Rowing Basin, located at the Krylatskoye Olympic Sports Complex (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The canoeing schedule began on 30 July and ended on 2 August. 11 canoeing events were contested.

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Sergei Postrekhin  Soviet Union	Lyubomir Lyubenov  Bulgaria	Olaf Heukrodt  East Germany
C-1 1000 metres	Lyubomir Lyubenov  Bulgaria	Sergei Postrekhin  Soviet Union	Eckhard Leue  East Germany
C-2 500 metres	László Foltán István Vaskúti  Hungary	Ivan Patzaichin Petre Capusta  Romania	Borislav Ananiev Nikolai Ilkov  Bulgaria
C-2 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov  Romania	Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja  East Germany	Vasyl Yurchenko Yuri Lobanov  Soviet Union
K-1 500 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich  Soviet Union	John Sumegi  Australia	Vasile Dîba  Romania
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm  East Germany	Alain Lebas  France	Ion Bîrlădeanu  Romania
K-2 500 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhray  Soviet Union	Herminio Menéndez Guillermo del Riego  Spain	Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht  East Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhray  Soviet Union	István Szabó István Joós  Hungary	Luis Gregorio Ramos Herminio Menéndez  Spain
K-4 1000 metres	East Germany (GDR) Rüdiger Helm Bernd Olbricht Harald Marg Bernd Duvigneau	Romania (ROM) Mihai Zafiu Vasile Dîba Ion Geantă Nicuşor Eşanu	Bulgaria (BUL) Borislav Borisov Bozhidar Milenkov Lazar Khristov Ivan Manev

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Birgit Fischer  East Germany	Vanja Gesheva  Bulgaria	Antonina Melnikova  Soviet Union
K-2 500 metres	Carsta Genäuß Martina Bischof  East Germany	Galina Alexeyeva Nina Trofimova  Soviet Union	Éva Rakusz Mária Zakariás  Hungary

Medal table

All events took place at the Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin in Krylatskoye

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	2	8
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	1	3	8
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	2	5
	Romania (ROU)	1	2	2	5
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
6	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
7	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		11	11	11	33

Participating nations

179 canoeists from 23 nations competed

References

• "1980 Summer Olympics official report" (PDF). pp. 183–97. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007.(in English and French)