1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mexico City, Mexico in neighboring Xochimilco. This marked the first time the championships took place outside Europe. since 2009Template:Dated maintenance category (articles), all championships have taken place either in Europe or North America. The lake was where the canoeing and rowing events took place for the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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 eleventh championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
C-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
C-1 10000 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
C-2 500 m	Template:Flagcountry Aleksandr Vinogradov Yuri Lobanov		Template:Flagcountry Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov		Tomáš Šach Jiří Čtvrtečka
C-2 1000 m	Template:Flagcountry Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov		Template:Flagu Jerzy Opara Andrzej Gronowicz		Template:Flagcountry Cherasim Munteanu Vasile Serghei
C-2 10000 m	Template:Flagcountry Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov		Template:Flagcountry Tamás Buday Gábor Haraszti		Template:Flagu Alain Alcard Jean-Paul Cézard

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
K-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
K-1 10000 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Template:Flagcountry Vasile Dîba Ernst Pavel Atanase Sciotnic Mihai Zafiu		Template:Flagcountry Vitaliy Trukshin Sergei Chukhray Anatoliy Kobrisev Nikolay Astapkovich		Template:Flagu Ryszard Oborski Grzegorz Śledziewski Kazimierz Górecki Andrzej Matysiak
K-2 500 m	Template:Flagu Ryszard Oborski Grzegorz Śledziewski		Template:Flagcountry József Deme János Rátkai		Template:GDR Ulrich Hellige Herbert Laabs
K-2 1000 m	Template:Flagcountry Zoltán Bakó István Szabó		Template:Flagcountry Vladimir Kozubin Mikhail Afansiyev		Template:GDR Volkmar Thiede Rüdiger Helm
K-2 10000 m	Template:Flagcountry Ion Terente Antrop Variabev		Template:Flagu Jos Broekx Paul Stinckens		Template:Flagcountry Konstantin Kostenko Vyacheslav Kononov
K-4 1000 m	Template:GDR Herbert Laabs Ulrich Hellige Jürgen Lehnert Bernd Duvigneau		Template:Flagcountry Yuri Filatov Aleksandr Degtyarov Aleksandr Kuprikov Nikolay Astapkovich		Template:Flagcountry József Deme János Rátkai Csongor Vargha Csaba Giczy
K-4 10000 m	Template:Flagcountry Leonid Derevyanko Nikolai Gorbachev Pytor Zhurga Anatoliy Zharkin		Template:Flagcountry Csaba Giczy Csongor Vargha István Szabó Zoltán Romhanyi		Template:Flagu Ryszard Oborski Kazimierz Górecki Grzegorz Kołtan Andrzej Matysiak

Women's

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete		Template:Flagathlete
K-2 500 m	Template:GDR Bärbel Köster Anke Ohde		Template:Flagcountry Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichiforov		Template:Flagcountry Ilona Tőzsér Mária Zakariás
K-4 500 m	Template:GDR Ilse Kaschube Bärbel Köster Anke Ohde Carola Zirzow		Template:Flagcountry Nina Gopova Larissa Kabakova Tatyana Korzhunova Galina Kreft		Template:Flagcountry Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichiforov Maria Cosma Agafia Orlov

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.