# 1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark for the second time after hosting the event in 1950. This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. Beginning at these championships, the event would be held on an annual basis in non-Summer Olympic years, a tradition that continues as of 2009.
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.
This was the eighth championships in canoe sprint.

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

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| C-1 1000 m | Tibor Tatai (HUN) | Jerzy Opara (POL) | Jiří Čtvrtečka (TCH) |
| C-1 10000 m | Tamás Wichmann (HUN) | Afansie Butelchin (ROU) | Nikolay Fedulov (URS) |
| C-2 1000 m | Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov | Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics | Bulgaria Boris Lubenov Sachko Iliev |
| C-2 10000 m | Romania Petre Maxim Gheorghe Simionov | Soviet Union Valeriy Drybas Vasiliy Kalyagin | Sweden Bernt Lindelöf Erik Zeidlitz |

#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Anatoliy Tischenko (URS) | Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL) | Jean-Pierre Burny (BEL) |
| K-1 1000 m | Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS) | Lars Andersson (SWE) | Grzegorz Śledziewski (POL) |
| K-1 10000 m | Viktor Tsaryov (URS) | Erik Hansen (DEN) | Péter Völgyi (HUN) |
| K-1 4 x 500 m relay | Soviet Union Nikolay Gogol Anatoliy Tischenko Anatoliy Kobrisev Anatoliy Sedasov | Romania Eugen Botez Mihai Zafiu Ion Jacob Aurel Vernescu | Hungary Géza Csapó István Csizmadia Mihály Hesz József Svidró |
| K-2 500 m | Sweden Lars Andersson Rolf Peterson | Romania Aurel Vernescu Atanase Sciotnic | Austria Gerhard Seibold Günther Pfaff |
| K-2 1000 m | Austria Gerhard Seibold Günther Pfaff | Sweden Lars Andersson Rolf Peterson | East Germany Klaus-Peter Ebeling Joachim Mattern |
| K-2 10000 m | Soviet Union Konstantin Kostenko Vyacheslav Kononov | Hungary Imre Szöllősi Vilmos Nagy | Romania Costel Coșniță Vasilie Simiocenco |
| K-4 1000 m | Soviet Union Yuri Filatov Valeri Didenko Yuriy Stetsenko Vladimir Morozov | East Germany Uwe Will Eduard Augustin Klaus-Peter Ebeling Joachim Mattern | Hungary István Szabó Péter Várhelyi Csaba Giczy István Timár |
| K-4 10000 m | Norway Egil Søby Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Jan Johansen | West Germany Horst Mattern Rainer Hennes Jochen Schneider Erich Kemnitz | Sweden Kurt Lycjner Willy Tesch Åke Sandin Hans Nilsson |

### Women's
#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m | Lyudmila Pinayeva (URS) | Mieke Jaapies (NED) | Petra Setzkorn (GDR) |
| K-2 500 m | West Germany Roswitha Esser Renate Breuer | Soviet Union Lyudmila Bezrukova Tamara Shymanskaya | East Germany Petra Setzkorn Petra Grabowski |
| K-4 500 m | Soviet Union Lyudmila Bezrukova Tamara Shymanskaya Natalya Boyko Ninel Vakula | East Germany Petra Setzkorn Petra Grabowski Ingeborg Loesch Anita Nüssner-Kobuss | West Germany Roswitha Esser Irene Pepinghege Roswitha Spohr Monika Bergmann |

## Medals table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 | Romania (ROU) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 |