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The '''1981 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships''' were held in [[Nottingham]], Great Britain.

The men's competition consisted of six [[Canadian (canoe)|Canadian]] (single paddle, open boat) and nine [[kayak]] events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.

This was the sixteenth [[ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships|championships]] in canoe sprint.

==Medal summary==
===Men's===
====Canoe====
{| class="wikitable"
!Event
|align=center bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="CC9966"|'''Bronze'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|-
|C-1 500 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Olaf Heukrodt]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Gennadiy Liseichikov]]|URS}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[János Sarusi Kis]]|HUN|1957}}||
|-
|C-1 1000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Ulrich Papke]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Tamás Buday]]|HUN|1957}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Jiří Vrdlovec]]|TCH}}||
|-
|C-1 10000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Tamás Wichmann]]|HUN|1957}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Matija Ljubek]]|YUG}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Sergey Liminovich]]|URS}}||
|-
|C-2 500 m
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[László Foltán Sr.|László Foltán]]<br>[[István Vaskúti]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Edem Muradosilov]]<br>[[Vigantas Zhekaitis]]||
| {{flagcountry|BUL|1971}}<br>[[Liubomir Ljubenov]]<br>[[Sevdalin Ilkov]]||
|-
|C-2 1000 m
| {{flagcountry|ROU|1965}}<br>[[Ivan Patzaichin]]<br>[[Toma Simionov]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Olaf Heukrodt]]<br>[[Uwe Madeja]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Edem Muradosilov]]<br>[[Vigantas Zhekaitis]]||
|-
|C-2 10000 m
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[Tamás Buday]]<br>[[László Vaskúti]]||
| {{flagcountry|ROU|1965}}<br>[[Ivan Patzaichin]]<br>[[Toma Simionov]]||
| {{TCH}}<br>[[Jiří Vrdlovec]]<br>[[Petr Kubíček]]||
|}

====Kayak====
{| class="wikitable"
!Event
|align=center bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="CC9966"|'''Bronze'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|-
|K-1 500 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Parfenovich]]|URS}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Ion Bîrlădeanu]]|ROU|1965}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Lars-Erik Moberg]]|SWE}}||
|-
|K-1 1000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Rüdiger Helm]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Ion Bîrlădeanu]]|ROU|1965}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Einar Rasmussen]]|NOR}}||
|-
|K-1 10000 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Einar Rasmussen]]|NOR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Milan Janić]]|YUG}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[István Fábián]]|HUN|1957}}||
|-
|K-2 500 m
| {{URS}}<br>[[Vladimir Parfenovich]]<br>[[Sergey Superata]]||
| {{flagu|Poland}}<br>[[Waldemar Merk]]<br>[[Daniel Wełna]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Bernd Fleckeisen]]<br>[[Frank Fischer]]||
|-
|K-2 1000 m
| {{URS}}<br>[[Vladimir Parfenovich]]<br>[[Sergey Superata]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Bernd Fleckeisen]]<br>[[Frank Fischer]]||
| {{flagu|Poland}}<br>[[Waldemar Merk]]<br>[[Daniel Wełna]]||
|-
|K-2 10000 m
| {{URS}}<br>[[Nikolay Astapkovich]]<br>[[Vladimir Romanovsky]]||
| {{flagcountry|HUN|1957}}<br>[[István Szabó (canoeist)|István Szabó]]<br>[[István Joós]]||
| {{flagcountry|ROU|1965}}<br>[[Ion Bîrlădeanu]]<br>[[Nicușor Eșanu]]||
|-
|K-4 500 m
| {{URS}}<br>[[Igor Gaydamaka]]<br>[[Sergey Krivozheyev]]<br>[[Jüri Poljans]]<br>[[Aleksander Vodovatov]]||
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Jens Norqvist]]<br>[[Lars-Erik Moberg]]<br>[[Per-Inge Bengtsson]]<br>[[Thomas Ohlsson]]||
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Frank-Peter Bischof]]<br>[[André Wohllebe]]<br>[[Rüdiger Helm]]<br>[[Harald Marg]]||
|-
|K-4 1000 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Rüdiger Helm]]<br>[[Frank-Peter Bischof]]<br>[[Peter Hempel]]<br>[[Harald Marg]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Sergey Kolokolov]]<br>[[Aleksandr Volkovskiy]]<br>[[Alexander Yermilov]]<br>[[Nikolay Baranov]]||
| {{FRG}}<br>[[Matthias Seack]]<br>[[Andreas Flunker]]<br>[[Frank Renner]]<br>[[Oliver Seack]]||
|-
|K-4 10000 m
| {{URS}}<br>[[Alexander Yermilov]]<br>[[Nikolay Baranov]]<br>[[Sergey Kolokolov]]<br>[[Vasiliy Silenkov]]||
| {{flagu|Poland}}<br>[[Leszek Jamroziński]]<br>[[Andrzej Klimaszewski (canoeist)|Andrzej Klimaszewski]]<br>[[Ryszard Oborski]]<br>[[Zdzisław Szubski]]||
| {{GBR2}}<br>[[Stephen Brown (canoeist)|Stephen Brown]]<br>[[Christopher Canham]]<br>[[Stephen Jackson (canoeist)|Stephan Jackson]]<br>[[Alan Williams (canoeist)|Alan Williams]]||
|}

===Women's===
====Kayak====
{| class="wikitable"
!Event
|align=center bgcolor="gold"|'''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="silver"|'''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|align=center bgcolor="CC9966"|'''Bronze'''
|align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"|'''Time'''
|-
|K-1 500 m
| {{flagathlete|[[Birgit Fischer]]|GDR}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Éva Rakusz]]|HUN|1957}}||
| {{flagathlete|[[Agneta Andersson]]|SWE}}||
|-
|K-2 500 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Birgit Fischer]]<br>[[Carsta Kühn]]||
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Agneta Andersson]]<br>[[Susanne Wiberg]]||
| {{flagcountry|ROU|1965}}<br>[[Agafia Buhaev]]<br>[[Maria Ştefan]]||
|-
|K-4 500 m
| {{GDR}}<br>[[Birgit Fischer]]<br>[[Carsta Kühn]]<br>[[Kathrin Stoll]]<br>[[Roswitha Eberl]]||
| {{URS}}<br>[[Natalya Filonich]]<br>[[Larissa Nadviga]]<br>[[Inna Zhipulina]]<br>[[Lyubov Orechova]]||
| {{flagu|Sweden}}<br>[[Karin Olsson (canoeist)|Karin Olsson]]<br>[[Agneta Andersson]]<br>[[Susanne Wiberg]]<br>[[Eva Karlsson]]||
|}

==Medals table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = 
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_URS = 6 | silver_URS = 4 | bronze_URS = 2
 | gold_GDR = 7 | silver_GDR = 2 | bronze_GDR = 2
 | gold_HUN = 3 | silver_HUN = 3 | bronze_HUN = 2 | name_HUN = {{flagteam|HUN|1957}}
 | gold_ROU = 1 | silver_ROU = 3 | bronze_ROU = 2 | name_ROU = {{flagteam|ROU|1965}}
 | gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 2 | bronze_SWE = 3
 | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 2 | bronze_POL = 1
 | gold_NOR = 1 | silver_NOR = 0 | bronze_NOR = 1
 | gold_YUG = 0 | silver_YUG = 2 | bronze_YUG = 0
 | gold_TCH = 0 | silver_TCH = 0 | bronze_TCH = 2
 | gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1 | name_BUL = {{flagteam|BUL|1971}}
 | gold_GBR = 0 | silver_GBR = 0 | bronze_GBR = 1
 | gold_FRG = 0 | silver_FRG = 0 | bronze_FRG = 1
}}

==References==
*[http://www.bcu.org.uk/files/Pages%201-41%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007-2.pdf ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113142416/http://www.bcu.org.uk/files/Pages%201-41%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007-2.pdf |date=13 January 2016}}
*[http://www.bcu.org.uk/files/Pages%2042-83%20from%20Medal%20Winners%20ICF%20updated%202007.pdf ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311071809/http://bcu.org.uk/files/pages%2042-83%20from%20medal%20winners%20icf%20updated%202007.pdf |date=11 March 2016}}

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