# 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland.
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 tenth championships in canoe sprint.

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

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| C-1 500 m | Miklós Darvas (HUN) | Nikolay Fedulov (URS) | Ivan Patzaichin (ROU) |
| C-1 1000 m | Ivan Patzaichin (ROU) | Romualdas Vinojinidis (URS) | Tamás Wichmann (HUN) |
| C-1 10000 m | Vasiliy Yurchenko (URS) | Lipat Varabiev (ROU) | Tamás Wichmann (HUN) |
| C-2 500 m | Soviet Union Oleg Kalidov Vitaliy Slobodenyuk | Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov | Poland Jerzy Opara Andrzej Gronowicz |
| C-2 1000 m | Romania Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov | Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov | Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics |
| C-2 10000 m | Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov | Romania Vasile Serghei Cherasim Munteanu | Hungary Tamás Buday Gábor Haraszti |

#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Géza Csapó (HUN) | Vitaliy Trukshin (URS) | Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL) |
| K-1 1000 m | Géza Csapó (HUN) | Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL) | Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS) |
| K-1 10000 m | Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS) | Péter Völgyi (HUN) | Jörgen Andersen (DEN) |
| K-1 4 x 500 m relay | Soviet Union Vitaliy Trukshin Anatoliy Kobrisev Sergey Nikolskiy Oleg Zhegoyev | Hungary István Csizmadia Zoltán Angyal Róbert Schaffhauser István Szabó | Romania Atanase Sciotnic Vasilie Simiocenco Roman Vartolomeu Mihai Zafiu |
| K-2 500 m | Soviet Union Nikolay Gogol Pytor Greshta | Hungary József Deme János Rátkai | Romania Ion Dragulschi Ernst Pavel |
| K-2 1000 m | Hungary József Deme János Rátkai | Romania Ion Dragulschi Ernst Pavel | East Germany Herbert Laabs Joachim Mattern |
| K-2 10000 m | Hungary Zoltán Bakó Géza Csapó | Romania Ion Terente Antrop Variabev | Belgium Jos Broekx Paul Stinckens |
| K-4 1000 m | Hungary József Deme János Rátkai Csongor Vargha Csaba Giczy | Soviet Union Yuri Filatov Vladimir Morozov Nikolay Gogol Valeri Didenko | East Germany Norbert Paschke Peter Korsch Jürgen Lehnert Harald Marg |
| K-4 10000 m | Hungary Csaba Giczy Tibor Nagy Csongor Vargha Géza Kralován | West Germany Hans-Erich Pasch Horst Mattern Rudolf Blass Eberhard Fischer | Romania Atanase Sciotnic Cuprian Macarencu Costel Coșniță Vasilie Simiocenco |

### Women's
#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Nina Gopova (URS) | Petra Borzym (GDR) | Victoria Dumitru (ROU) |
| K-2 500 m | East Germany Ilse Kaschube Petra Borzym | Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Nina Gopova | Hungary Anna Pfeffer Ilona Tőzsér |
| K-4 500 m | Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Nina Gopova Larissa Kabakova Tamara Popova | Hungary Anna Pfeffer Ilona Tőzsér Erzsébet Horváth Mária Zakariás | Romania Victoria Dumitru Maria Nichiforov Maria Cosma Maria Ivanov |

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 2 | Hungary (HUN) | 7 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 | Romania (ROU) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |