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The '''1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships''' were held in [[Mechelen]], Belgium.

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

This was the nineteenth [[ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|championships]] in canoe sprint.

==Medal summary==
===Men's===
====Canoe====
{| class="wikitable"
!Event
|align=center bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="CC9966"|'''Bronze'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|-
|C-1 500 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Olaf Heukrodt]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Anatoliy Volkov]]|URS}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Aurel Macarencu]]|ROU|1965}}||
|-
|C-1 1000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Ivan Klementiev]]|URS}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Ulrich Eicke]]|FRG}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Aurel Macarencu]]|ROU|1965}}||
|-
|C-1 10000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Jiří Vrdlovec]]|TCH}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Takhir Kamaletdinov]]|URS}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Attila Lipták]]|HUN|1957}}||
|-
|C-2 500 m
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[János Sarusi Kis]]<br>[[István Vaskuti]]||
| {{flagu|Poland}}<br>[[Marek Łbik]]<br>[[Marek Dopierała]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Ulrich Papke]]<br>[[Uwe Madeja]]||
|-
|C-2 1000 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Olaf Heukrodt]]<br>[[Alexander Schuck]]||
| {{YUG}}<br>[[Matija Ljubek]]<br>[[Mirko Nišović]]||
| {{flagu|Poland}}<br>[[Marek Łbik]]<br>[[Marek Dopierała]]||
|-
|C-2 10000 m
| {{YUG}}<br>[[Matija Ljubek]]<br>[[Mirko Nišović]]||
| {{GBR2}}<br>[[Andrew Train]]<br>[[Stephen Train]]||
| {{flagcountry|BUL|1971}}<br>[[Matei Kalpakov]]<br>[[Tosho Kalpakov]]||
|}

====Kayak====
{| class="wikitable"
!Event
|align=center bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="CC9966"|'''Bronze'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|-
|K-1 500 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Andreas Stähle]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Oliver Seack]]|FRG}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Bernard Brégeon]]|FRA}}||
|-
|K-1 1000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Ferenc Csipes]]|HUN|1957}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Heiko Zeinke]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Kalle Sundqvist]]|SWE}}||
|-
|K-1 10000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Greg Barton]]|USA}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[László Nieberl]]|HUN|1957}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Grant Bramwell]]|NZL}}||
|-
|K-2 500 m
| {{flagu|New Zealand}}<br>[[Ian Ferguson (canoeist)|Ian Ferguson]]<br>[[Paul MacDonald (canoeist)|Paul MacDonald]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Guido Behling]]<br>[[Hans-Jörg Bliesener]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Viktor Pusev]]<br>[[Sergey Superata]]||
|-
|K-2 1000 m
| {{flagu|France}}<br>[[Pascal Boucherit]]<br>[[Philippe Boccara]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Viktor Pusev]]<br>[[Sergey Superata]]||
| {{flagu|Canada}}<br>[[Don Brien]]<br>[[Colin Shaw (canoeist)|Colin Shaw]]||
|-
|K-2 10000 m
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Mikael Berger]]<br>[[Conny Edholm]]||
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[István Szabó (canoeist)|István Szabó]]<br>[[István Tóth (canoeist)|István Tóth]]||
| {{flagu|Italy}}<br>[[Francesco Uberti]]<br>[[Daniele Scarpa]]||
|-
|K-4 500 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[André Wohllebe]]<br>[[Frank Fischer]]<br>[[Peter Hempel]]<br>[[Heiko Zinke]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Aleksandr Belov (canoeist)|Aleksandr Belov]]<br>[[Igor Gaidamaka]]<br>[[Viktor Denisov]]<br>[[Aleksandr Vodovatov]]||
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Karl-Axel Sundqvist]]<br>[[Per-Inge Bengtsson]]<br>[[Lars-Erik Moberg]]<br>[[Per Lundh]]||
|-
|K-4 1000 m
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Per-Inge Bengtsson]]<br>[[Lars-Erik Moberg]]<br>[[Karl-Axel Sundqvist]]<br>[[Bengt Andersson (canoeist)|Bengt Andersson]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Aleksandr Myzgin]]<br>[[Igor Gaidamaka]]<br>[[Artūras Vieta]]<br>[[Aleksandr Vodovatov]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[André Wohllebe]]<br>[[Frank Fischer]]<br>[[Peter Hempel]]<br>[[Heiko Zinke]]||
|-
|K-4 10000 m
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[Zoltán Böjti]]<br>[[Tibor Helyi]]<br>[[Zoltán Kovács (canoeist)|Zoltán Kovács]]<br>[[Kálmán Petrovics]]||
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Tommy Karls]]<br>[[Bengt Andersson (canoeist)|Bengt Andersson]]<br>[[Peter Ekström]]<br>[[Torbjörn Thoresson]]||
| {{DEN}}<br>[[Brian Kragh]]<br>[[Thor Nielsen]]<br>[[Lars Koch]]<br>[[Henrik Christiansen (canoeist)|Henrik Christiansen]]||
|}

===Women's===
====Kayak====
{| class="wikitable"
!Event
|align=center bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="CC9966"|'''Bronze'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|-
|K-1 500 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Birgit Schmidt-Fischer]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Nelli Yefremova]]|URS}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Agneta Andersson]]|SWE}}||
|-
|K-2 500 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Birgit Fischer]]<br>[[Carsta Kühn]]||
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[Éva Rakusz]]<br>[[Rita Kőbán]]||
| {{flagu|Netherlands}}<br>[[Annemiek Derckx]]<br>[[Annemarie Cox]]||
|-
|K-4 500 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Birgit Fischer]]<br>[[Carsta Kühn]]<br>[[Heike Singer]]<br>[[Kathrin Giese]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Yelena Dudina]]<br>[[Nelli Yefremova]]<br>[[Irina Salomykova]]<br>[[Guinara Zharafutdinova]]||
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[Katalin Gyulai]]<br>[[Erika Géczi]]<br>[[Éva Rakusz]]<br>[[Rita Kőbán]]||
|}

==Medals table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = 
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_GDR = 7 | silver_GDR = 2 | bronze_GDR = 2
 | gold_URS = 1 | silver_URS = 7 | bronze_URS = 1
 | gold_HUN = 3 | silver_HUN = 3 | bronze_HUN = 2 | name_HUN = {{flagteam|HUN|1957}}
 | gold_SWE = 2 | silver_SWE = 1 | bronze_SWE = 3
 | gold_YUG = 1 | silver_YUG = 1 | bronze_YUG = 0
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 1
 | gold_NZL = 1 | silver_NZL = 0 | bronze_NZL = 1
 | gold_FRG = 0 | silver_FRG = 2 | bronze_FRG = 0
 | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 1
 | gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 0 | bronze_ROU = 2 | name_ROU = {{flagteam|ROU|1965}}
 | gold_TCH = 1 | silver_TCH = 0 | bronze_TCH = 0
 | gold_USA = 1 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 0
 | gold_GBR = 0 | silver_GBR = 1 | bronze_GBR = 0
 | gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1 | name_BUL = {{flagteam|BUL|1971}}
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 1
 | gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 0 | bronze_DEN = 1
 | gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 1
 | gold_NED = 0 | silver_NED = 0 | bronze_NED = 1
}}

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160113142416/http://www.bcu.org.uk/files/Pages%201-41%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007-2.pdf ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160311071809/http://bcu.org.uk/files/pages%2042-83%20from%20medal%20winners%20icf%20updated%202007.pdf ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.]

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