1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Template:Use dmy dates The 1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Nottingham, Great Britain.

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 sixteenth 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 László Foltán István Vaskúti		Edem Muradosilov Vigantas Zhekaitis		Template:Flagcountry Liubomir Ljubenov Sevdalin Ilkov
C-2 1000 m	Template:Flagcountry Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Template:GDR Olaf Heukrodt Uwe Madeja		Edem Muradosilov Vigantas Zhekaitis
C-2 10000 m	Template:Flagcountry Tamás Buday László Vaskúti		Template:Flagcountry Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov		Jiří Vrdlovec Petr Kubíček

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-2 500 m	Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Template:Flagu Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna		Template:GDR Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer
K-2 1000 m	Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata		Template:GDR Bernd Fleckeisen Frank Fischer		Template:Flagu Waldemar Merk Daniel Wełna
K-2 10000 m	Nikolay Astapkovich Vladimir Romanovsky		Template:Flagcountry István Szabó István Joós		Template:Flagcountry Ion Bîrlădeanu Nicușor Eșanu
K-4 500 m	Igor Gaydamaka Sergey Krivozheyev Jüri Poljans Aleksander Vodovatov		Template:Flagu Jens Norqvist Lars-Erik Moberg Per-Inge Bengtsson Thomas Ohlsson		Template:GDR Frank-Peter Bischof André Wohllebe Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg
K-4 1000 m	Template:GDR Rüdiger Helm Frank-Peter Bischof Peter Hempel Harald Marg		Sergey Kolokolov Aleksandr Volkovskiy Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov		Matthias Seack Andreas Flunker Frank Renner Oliver Seack
K-4 10000 m	Alexander Yermilov Nikolay Baranov Sergey Kolokolov Vasiliy Silenkov		Template:Flagu Leszek Jamroziński Andrzej Klimaszewski Ryszard Oborski Zdzisław Szubski		Template:GBR2 Stephen Brown Christopher Canham Stephan Jackson Alan Williams

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 Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn		Template:Flagu Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg		Template:Flagcountry Agafia Buhaev Maria Ştefan
K-4 500 m	Template:GDR Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Kathrin Stoll Roswitha Eberl		Natalya Filonich Larissa Nadviga Inna Zhipulina Lyubov Orechova		Template:Flagu Karin Olsson Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg Eva Karlsson

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007. Template:Webarchive
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.Template:Webarchive