1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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The 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in
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for the second time, having hosted them in
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, Denmark ( 1950,
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). The men's competition consisted of six
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(single paddle, open boat) and nine
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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
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and Poland's
Grzegorz Śledziewski Grzegorz Śledziewski (born 18 July 1950) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. He won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 1000 m: 1971, ...
. The second would occur thirty-five years later in the C-1 200 m (debuted
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) for the bronze between Canada's Richard Dalton and
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, neither of who were born in 1975.


Medal summary


Men's


Canoe


Kayak


Women's


Kayak


Medals table


References


ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
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