1957 Canoe Sprint European Championships

1957 Canoe Sprint European Championships
1957 Canoe Sprint European Championships
Location	Ghent, Belgium
Start date	23 August 1957
End date	25 August 1957
	← 1936 Duisburg 1959 Duisburg →

The 1957 Canoe Sprint European Championships were held in Ghent, Belgium from 23 to 25 August 1957. This was the 4th edition of the event. The men's competition consisted of four canoe and nine kayak events. Two events were held for women, both in kayak.

Medal overview edit

Men's edit

Canoe edit

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
C-1 1000 m	Gábor Novák (HUN)	4:49,40	Gennady Bukharin (URS)	4:50,50	Yuri Zhukovsky (URS)	4:50,90
C-1 10000 m	János Parti (HUN)	65:13,00	Gennady Bukharin (URS)	65:56,00	Werner Tschaschke (FRG)	67:08,00
C-2 1000 m	Soviet Union Aleksandr Silayev Pavel Kharin	4:25,90	Romania Dumitru Alexe Simion Ismailciuc	4:26,00	Hungary Imre Farkas József Hunics	4:27,00
C-2 10000 m	Romania Dumitru Alexe Simion Ismailciuc	59:19,00	Soviet Union Aleksandr Silayev Pavel Kharin	59:23,00	Romania Igor Lipalit Lavrente Calinov	60:05,00

Kayak edit

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Valentin Naumov [ru] (URS)	1:52,70	Aleksandr Markovtsev (URS)	1:53,60	Stefan Kapłaniak (POL)	1:54,30
K-1 1000 m	Valentin Naumov [ru] (URS)	3:57,30	Fritz Briel (FRG)	3:59,10	Villy Christiansen (DEN)	4:01,00
K-1 10000 m	Fritz Briel (FRG)	50:34,00	Heinz Ackers (FRG)	50:49,00	Igor Pisarev (URS)	52:30,00
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Soviet Union Valentin Naumov [ru] Yevgeny Yatsinenko Aleksandr Markovtsev Igor Pisarev	8:10,70	West Germany Georg Lietz Paul Lange Gustav Schmidt Meinrad Miltenberger	8:19,20	Hungary Dezső Veréb János Petroczy György Mészáros Lajos Kiss	8:21,10
K-2 500 m	Hungary János Urányi László Fábián	1:41,00	West Germany Meinrad Miltenberger Gustav Schmidt	1:42,10	Romania Mircea Anastasescu Stavru Teodorov	1:42,40
K-2 1000 m	West Germany Fritz Briel Heinz Ackers	3:36,50	Denmark Villy Christiansen Vagn Schmidt	3:38,70	Soviet Union Mikhail Kaaleste Anatoly Demitkov	3:38,80
K-2 10000 m	Soviet Union Mikhail Kaaleste Anatoly Demitkov	46:02,00	Hungary János Urányi László Fábián	46:03,00	Belgium Hendrik Verbrugghe Germain Van der Moere	46:28,00
K-4 1000 m	Soviet Union Alfonsas Rudzinskas Volodar Zvyozdkin Mykolas Rudzinskas Vasiliy Stepanov	3:16,40	Soviet Union Viktor Shadrin Pavel Dubinin Konstantin Nazarov [ru] Igor Feoktistov	3:17,50	West Germany Fritz Briel Heinz Ackers Wilhelm Schlüssel Josef Knell	3:20,50
K-4 10000 m	West Germany Michel Scheuer Gustav Schmidt Georg Lietz Theodor Kleine	38:42,00	Soviet Union Alfonsas Rudzinskas Volodar Zvyozdkin Mykolas Rudzinskas Vasiliy Stepanov	39:06,60	Soviet Union Viktor Shadrin Pavel Dubinin Konstantin Nazarov [ru] Igor Feoktistov	39:28,00

Women's edit

Kayak edit

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Yelizaveta Dementyeva (URS)	2:05,70	Therese Zenz (FRG)	2:07,30	Nina Konistiapina (URS)	2:10,30
K-2 500 m	Soviet Union Nina Gruzintseva Nina Konistiapina	1:57,80	West Germany Therese Zenz Ingrid Hartmann	1:57,90	West Germany Ruth Rohrbach Sigrid Nowinski	1:59,00

Medals table edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	8	6	5	19
2	West Germany (FRG)	3	6	3	12
3	Hungary (HUN)	3	1	2	6
4	Romania (ROU)	1	1	2	4
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
6	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
6	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		15	15	15	45

References edit

Results at Canoeresults.eu
Medalists at Sport-komplett.de (in German)
Medaliile sportivelor români la Campionatoarele Mondiale și Europa (in Romanian)
Г. М. Краснопевцев, Ю. А. Плеханов. «Гребля на байдарках и каноэ. Справочник» — М.: «Физкультура и спорт», 1985. — 192 с. (in Russian)