1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Jajce, Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation.

The men's competition consisted of four Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak. The women's K-4 500 m event debuted at these championships.

This was the sixth championships in canoe sprint.

Medal summary

Canoe

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 1000 m	Simion Ismailciuc (ROU)		Detlef Lewe (GER)		Albrecht Müller (GDR)
C-1 10000 m	Mikhail Zamotin (URS)		Andrei Igorov (ROU)		Albrecht Müller (GDR)
C-2 1000 m	Romania Achim Sidorov Alexe Iacovici		Soviet Union Vitaliy Galkov Mikhail Zamotin		Hungary Endre Gyürü Árpád Soltész
C-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Leonid Geishtor Sergey Makarenko		East Germany Willi Mehlberg Werner Ulrich		Romania Lavrente Calinov Igor Lipalit

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Aurel Vernescu (ROU)		Erik Hansen (DEN)		Kálmán Kovács (HUN)
K-1 1000 m	Erik Hansen (DEN)		Aurel Vernescu (ROU)		Siegfried Rossberg (GDR)
K-1 10000 m	Fritz Briel (GER)		Sven-Olov Sjödelius (SWE)		Mihály Hesz (HUN)
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Romania Aurel Vernescu Vasilie Nicoară Haralambie Ivanov Anton Ivanescu		Soviet Union Vladimir Morozov Vladimir Natalukha Vyacheslav Vinnik Ibragim Khasanov		East Germany Wolfgang Lange Dieter Krause Siegfried Rossberg Günter Perleberg
K-2 500 m	Romania Vasilie Nicoară Haralambie Ivanov		Romania Aurel Vernescu Mircea Anastasescu		West Germany Heinz Büker Holger Zander
K-2 1000 m	Romania Vasilie Nicoară Haralambie Ivanov		East Germany Wolfgang Lange Dieter Krause		Soviet Union Nikolai Chuzhikov Anatoli Grishin
K-2 10000 m	Hungary László Fábián István Timár		Sweden Tord Sahlén Tyrone Ferm		West Germany Erich Suhriber Sigfred Brzoska
K-4 1000 m	East Germany Günter Perleberg Dieter Krause Siegfried Rossberg Wolfgang Lange		Romania Nicolae Artimov Andrei Contolenco Haralambie Ivanov Vasilie Nicoară		Soviet Union Aleksandr Trifonov Igor Safonov Nikolay Konnikov Vyacheslav Vinnik
K-4 10000 m	Hungary István Timár László Fábián Otto Koltai László Ürögi		East Germany Günter Holzvoigt Wolfgang Finger Wolfgang Niedrig Siegwart Karbe		Hungary György Czink János Petroczy Gábor Almasi Sámuel Egri

Kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Mariya Shubina (URS)		Lyudmila Khvedosyuk (URS)		Hanneliese Spitz (AUT)
K-2 500 m	West Germany Roswitha Esser Annemarie Zimmermann		Soviet Union Mariya Shubina Lyudmila Khvedosyuk		Soviet Union Valentina Bizak Lyubov Sinchina
K-4 500 m	Soviet Union Valentina Bizak Lyudmila Khvedosyuk Mariya Shubina Antonina Seredina		West Germany Roswitha Esser Erika Feltman Ingrid Hertmann Annemarie Zimmermann		East Germany Marion Knobba Anita Nüssner-Kobuss Charlotte Siedelmann Helga Mühlberg-Ulze

Medals table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	6	4	1	11
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	4	3	11
3	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	2	6
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	4	6
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	3	5	9
6	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

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ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Editions	1938 1948 1950 1954 1958 1963 1966 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 (para) 2013 2014 2015 2016 (para) 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Medalists	Men's canadian Men's kayak Women's canadian Women's kayak Paracanoe
Years marked (para) were limited to paracanoe events only