Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, seven events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1964. Lake Xochimilco was where the events took place.

Canoeing at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
No. of events	7

Erik Hansen at the 1968 Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	3	6
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
4	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Tibor Tatai  Hungary	Detlef Lewe  West Germany	Vitaly Galkov  Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin and Serghei Covaliov (ROU)	Tamás Wichmann and Gyula Petrikovics (HUN)	Naum Prokupets and Mikhail Zamotin (URS)
K-1 1000 metres	Mihály Hesz  Hungary	Aleksandr Shaparenko  Soviet Union	Erik Hansen  Denmark
K-2 1000 metres	Aleksandr Shaparenko and Vladimir Morozov (URS)	Csaba Giczy and István Timár (HUN)	Gerhard Siebold and Günther Pfaff (AUT)
K-4 1000 metres	Norway (NOR) Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Romania (ROU) Anton Calenic Haralambie Ivanov Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Țurcaș	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Giczy Imre Szöllősi István Timár István Csizmadia

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Pinayeva  Soviet Union	Renate Breuer  West Germany	Viorica Dumitru  Romania
K-2 500 metres	Annemarie Zimmermann and Roswitha Esser (FRG)	Anna Pfeffer and Katalin Rozsnyói (HUN)	Lyudmila Pinayeva and Antonina Seredina (URS)

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3, Part 2. pp. 614–21. (in English and French)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.