# 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland for the second time. The Finnish city had host the championships previously in 1973.
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 eighteenth championships in canoe sprint.

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

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| C-1 500 m | Costică Olaru (ROU) | Ulrich Papke (GDR) | Anatoliy Volkov (URS) |
| C-1 1000 m | Vassily Beresa (URS) | Costică Olaru (ROU) | Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH) |
| C-1 10000 m | Jiří Vrdlovec (TCH) | Gheorghe Titu (ROU) | Tamás Wichmann (HUN) |
| C-2 500 m | Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović | Soviet Union Ivan Klementiev Sergey Ossadzhiy | Romania Dumitru Bețiu Flodor Gurei |
| C-2 1000 m | Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov | East Germany Olaf Heukrodt Alexander Schuck | Yugoslavia Matija Ljubek Mirko Nišović |
| C-2 10000 m | Hungary Tamás Buday László Vaskúti | Romania Ivan Patzaichin Toma Simionov | Soviet Union Sergey Petrenko Yuriy Laptikov |

#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Vladimir Parfenovich (URS) | Ian Ferguson (NZL) | Andreas Stähle (GDR) |
| K-1 1000 m | Rüdiger Helm (GDR) | Artūras Vieta (URS) | Alan Thompson (NZL) |
| K-1 10000 m | Einar Rasmussen (NOR) | Milan Janić (YUG) | Rick Daman (NED) |
| K-2 500 m | East Germany Frank Fischer André Wohllebe | Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata | Canada Hugh Fisher Alwyn Morris |
| K-2 1000 m | East Germany Frank Fischer André Wohllebe | Soviet Union Vladimir Parfenovich Sergey Superata | Austria Werner Bachmeyer Wolfgang Hartl |
| K-2 10000 m | Great Britain Stephen Jackson Alan Williams | Hungary István Szabó István Tóth | Sweden Bengt Andersson Karl-Axel Sundqvist |
| K-4 500 m | East Germany Andreas Stähle Peter Hempel Harald Marg Rüdiger Helm | Soviet Union Sergey Kolokolov Sergei Chukhray Artūras Vieta Aleksandr Vodovatov | Hungary István Imai Attila Császár Zoltán Lorinczy András Rajna |
| K-4 1000 m | Romania Ionel Constantin Nicolae Feodosei Ionel Letcae Angelin Velea | East Germany Andreas Stähle Peter Hempel Rüdiger Helm Harald Marg | Soviet Union Sergey Kolokolov Sergei Chukhray Artūras Vieta Aleksandr Vodovatov |
| K-4 10000 m | Soviet Union Nikolay Astapkovich Aleksandr Avdeyev Nikolay Baranov Alexander Yermilov | Norway Harald Amudsen Geir Kvillum Lars Ivar Gran Arne Sletsjøe | Poland Ireneusz Ciurzyński Andrzej Klimaszewski Ryszard Oborski Krzysztof Szczepański |

### Women's
#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Birgit Fischer (GDR) | Vania Gesheva (BUL) | Maria Ştefan (ROU) |
| K-2 500 m | East Germany Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn | Hungary Katalin Povázsán Erika Géczi | Sweden Agneta Andersson Susanne Wiberg |
| K-4 500 m | East Germany Birgit Fischer Carsta Kühn Ramona Walther Kathrin Giese | Soviet Union Inna Zhipulina Nelli Yefremova Natalya Kalasnikova Galina Alekseyeva | Romania Tecia Borzanea Agafia Burhaev Natasia Ionescu Maria Ştefan |

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | Romania (ROU) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |