1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

The 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Spittal, Austria under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the record setting third time. Spittal hosted the championships previously in 1963 and 1965. A record ten countries won medals at these championships, including the first for Australia.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
C-1	Petr Sodomka (TCH)		Peter Massalski (GDR)		Karel Třešňák (TCH)
C-1 team	East Germany Reinhard Eiben Peter Massalski Lutz Körner		West Germany Dietmar Moos Ernst Libuda Walter Horn		Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Radil Karel Třešňák Petr Sodomka
C-2	East Germany Walter Hofmann Jürgen Kalbitz		Czechoslovakia Miroslav Nedvěd Pavel Schwarc		East Germany Michael Berek Frank Kretschmer
C-2 team	Czechoslovakia Jiří Benhák & Ladislav Benhák Radomír Halfar & Svetomír Kmošťák Miroslav Nedvěd & Pavel Schwarc		Switzerland Martin Wyss & Roland Wyss Matthias Hirsch & Manfred Walter Jiří Krejza & Jan Karel		Poland Jan Frączek & Ryszard Seruga Wojciech Kudlik & Jerzy Jeż Zbigniew Leśniak & Maciej Rychta

Kayak

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
K-1	Albert Kerr (GBR)		Dieter Förstl (FRG)		Norbert Sattler (AUT)
K-1 team	France Jean-Yves Prigent Bernard Renault Christian Frossard		Austria Eduard Wolffhardt Norbert Sattler Peter Fauster		Poland Wojciech Gawroński Jerzy Stanuch Kazimierz Gawlikowski

Mixed

Canoe

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
C-2	United States Marietta Gillman Chuck Lyda		United States Linda Aponte John Kennedy		Australia Kym Purdy Stuart Dry

Women's

Kayak

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
K-1	Angelika Bahmann (GDR)		Petra Krol (GDR)		Linda Harrison (USA)
K-1 team	Switzerland Elisabeth Käser Kathrin Weiss Claire Costa		East Germany Angelika Bahmann Birgit Feydt Petra Krol		United States Cathy Hearn Jean Campbell Linda Harrison

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	3	3	1	7
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	2	5
3	United States	1	1	2	4
4	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
5	France	1	0	0	1
5	United Kingdom	1	0	0	1
7	West Germany	0	2	0	2
8	Austria	0	1	1	2
9	Poland	0	0	2	2
10	Australia	0	0	1	1
Total		9	9	9	27

References

ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

Editions	1949 1951 1953 1955 1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2017

Medalists	Men's Canadian Women's Canadian Men's kayak Women's kayak Mixed Canadian

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