This would the last time this event was held in the Summer Olympics though it would be held at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships from 1950 to 1993.
This would the last time this event was held in the Summer Olympics though it would be held at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships from 1938 to 1993.
This would be the only time this event was held in the Summer Olympics though it was part of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships from 1948 to 1975.
This event debutted at these Olympics though it is one of two events that has been at every ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (The other is the men's K-4 1000 m event which debuted at the 1964 Games in Tokyo.).
This event debuted at these games and is only one of two events that has been at every ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (the other is the women's K-2 500 m event which made its Olympic debut at the previous Games in Rome).
Schmidt, who won all three ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships women's kayaking events in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1987, was an overwhelming favorite in this event but was upset by the fast-finising Gesheva.
His prior success in this event was a silver at the 1993 world championships, but he was able to upset then two-time defending event world champion Opalev (The Russian has won this event world championship five times as of 2008.) in the final.
Germany won the K-4 1000 m world championships in 1997 and 1998 while Hungary won in 1999.
Brunet had won the past three world championships in this event and was undefeated in this event in over two years.
He won a gold medal in the V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.
In 2011 the ICF world championship in freestyle kayak were held there.
The Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin will serve as host for the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships 2014.
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Kostoglod is a six-time world champion gold medallist in the Canadian canoe (C) events.
Naum Prokupets, sprint canoer, Olympic bronze in C-2 1,000-meter event, gold in C-2 10,000-meter event at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Clint Robinson became Australia’s first canoe / kayak gold medallist when he defeated the Norwegian World Champion Knut Holmann to win the K-1 1000 m final at Barcelona in 1992.