Canoeing at the Friendship Games

Canoeing at the Friendship Games took place in Grünau, East Berlin, East Germany between 21 and 22 July 1984. 12 events (9 men's and 3 women's) were contested.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Olaf Heukrodt (GDR)	2:07.41	Ivans Klementjevs (URS)	2:07.62	Jan Pinczura (POL)	2:09.47
C-1 1000 metres	Ivans Klementjevs (URS)	4:27.28	Jörg Schmidt (GDR)	4:29.56	Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH)	4:31.14
C-2 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Sergei Postrekhin Vassiliy Beresa	1:51.09	East Germany (GDR) Ulrich Papke Alexander Schuck	1:52.10	Hungary (HUN) János Sarusi Gyula Hajdu	1:52.33
C-2 1000 metres	East Germany (GDR) Olaf Heukrodt Alexander Schuck	3:56.23	Soviet Union (URS) Ivan Kovalchuk Edem Muradosilov	3:56.92	Poland (POL) Marek Łbik Marek Dopierała	3:58.18
K-1 500 metres	Vladimir Parfenovich (URS)	1:53.31	Andreas Stähle (GDR)	1:54.99	András Rajna (HUN)	1:58.40
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm (GDR)	4:08.84	Witold Terechowicz (POL)	4:11.97	Felix Masár (TCH)	4:12.51
K-2 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Superata Viktor Pusev	1:39.63	Poland (POL) Janusz Wegner Witold Terechowicz	1:42.10	East Germany (GDR) Jens Fiedler Hans-Jörg Bliesener	1:43.27
K-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Superata Viktor Pusev	3:35.90	East Germany (GDR) André Wohllebe Frank Fischer	3:37.82	Cuba (CUB) Jorge L. Garcia Reynaldo Cunill	3:37.99
K-4 1000 metres	East Germany (GDR) Jens Fiedler Peter Hampel Rüdiger Helm Hans-Jörg Bliesener	3:12.69	Poland (POL) Daniel Wełna Kazimierz Krzyżański Janusz Wegner Grzegorz Krawców	3:13.36	Hungary (HUN) András Rajna Zsolt Gyulay István Joós Csaba Ábraham	3:14.10

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Birgit Fischer (GDR)	2:05.69	Rita Kőbán (HUN)	2:07.53	Galina Alexeyeva (URS)	2:09.36
K-2 500 metres	East Germany (GDR) Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn	1:53.55	Soviet Union (URS) Galina Alexeyeva Yelena Dudina	1:55.37	Hungary (HUN) Rita Kőbán Erika Géczi	1:56.52
K-4 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Galina Alexeyeva Yelena Dudina Irina Salomykova Nelliy Yefremova	1:41.77	East Germany (GDR) Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Heike Singer Kathrin Giese	1:43.41	Hungary (HUN) Rita Kőbán Erika Géczi Éva Rakusz Katalin Povázsán	1:44.56

Medal table

  *   Host nation (East Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)*	6	5	1	12
2	Soviet Union (URS)	6	3	1	10
3	Poland (POL)	0	3	2	5
4	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	5	6
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
6	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		12	12	12	36

See also

• Canoeing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

References

• Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 178–182, 211–212. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
• Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 86–87. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.