# 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the second time, having hosted them in 1971. This also equaled the most times a city had done so with Copenhagen, Denmark (1950, 1970).
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 twelfth championships in canoe sprint. It marked the first time in the championships' history in which there was tie for a medal and that happened to be for the gold in the men's K-1 1000 m event between Italy's Oreste Perri and Poland's Grzegorz Śledziewski. The second would occur thirty-five years later in the C-1 200 m (debuted 1994) for the bronze between Canada's Richard Dalton and Ukraine's Yuriy Cheban, neither of who were born in 1975.

## Medal summary
### Men's
#### Canoe

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| C-1 500 m | Sergey Petrenko (URS) | Miklós Darvas (HUN) | Borislav Ananiev (BUL) |
| C-1 1000 m | Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS) | Ivan Patzaichin (ROU) | Tamás Wichmann (HUN) |
| C-1 10000 m | Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS) | Károly Szegedi (HUN) | Matija Ljubek (YUG) |
| C-2 500 m | Soviet Union Aleksandr Vinogradov Yuri Lobanov | Czechoslovakia Tomáš Šach Jiří Čtvrtečka | Hungary Gábor Árva Péter Povázsay |
| C-2 1000 m | Hungary Gábor Árva Péter Povázsay | Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov | Soviet Union Roman Vyzhenko Aleksandr Vinogradov |
| C-2 10000 m | Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov | Hungary Tamás Buday Oszkár Frey | Bulgaria Ivan Burtschin Stefan Iliev |

#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Géza Csapó (HUN) | Vasile Dîba (ROU) | Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL) |
| K-1 1000 m | (tie) Oreste Perri (ITA) and Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL) | None | Rüdiger Helm (GDR) |
| K-1 10000 m | Oreste Perri (ITA) | Erich Pasch (GER) | Kazimierz Nikin (POL) |
| K-1 4 x 500 m relay | Hungary Iván Herczeg József Svidró Zoltán Sztanity Péter Várhelyi | Romania Nicușor Eșanu Mihai Zafiu Ion Dragulschi Vasile Dîba | Spain Herminio Menéndez José Ramón López Luis Gregorio Ramos Martin Vázquez |
| K-2 500 m | Soviet Union Viktor Vorobiyev Nikolay Astapkovich | East Germany Herbert Laabs Harald Marg | Romania Larion Serghei Policarp Malîhin |
| K-2 1000 m | East Germany Alexander Slatnow Gerhard Rummel | Romania Larion Serghei Policarp Malîhin | Hungary József Deme János Rátkai |
| K-2 10000 m | Hungary Zoltán Bakó István Szabó | Italy Danio Merli Giorgi Sbruzzi | Soviet Union Valeriy Zhemeza Petras Šiurskas |
| K-4 1000 m | Spain Herminio Rodriguez José María Esteban José Ramón López Luis Gregorio Ramos | East Germany Herbert Laabs Gerhard Rummel Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg | Hungary István Szabó Zoltán Bakó József Deme János Rátkai |
| K-4 10000 m | Norway Einar Rasmussen Steinar Amundsen Andreas Orheim Olaf Søyland | Romania Costel Coșniță Cuprian Macarencu Vasilie Simiocenco Nicușor Eșanu | Soviet Union Leonid Derevyanko Nikolai Gorbachev Pytor Zhurga Anatoliy Zharkin |

### Women's
#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Anke Ohde (GDR) | Galina Kreft (URS) | Maria Mihareanu (ROU) |
| K-2 500 m | East Germany Bärbel Köster Carola Zirzow | Soviet Union Galina Kreft Yekaterina Nagimaya | Poland Maria Kazanecka Katarzyna Kulczak |
| K-4 500 m | East Germany Bärbel Köster Anke Ohde Bettina Müller Carola Zirzow | Soviet Union Larissa Besnitzkaya Galina Kreft Yekaterina Nagimaya Nadezhda Trachimenok | Hungary Ilona Tőzsér Mária Zakariás Klára Rajnai Ágnes Pozsonyi |

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | Hungary (HUN) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 19 | 17 | 18 | 54 |