Rita Behrend

Rita Behrend
Medal record

Women's canoe slalom
Representing East Germany
World Championships
	1959 Geneva	Mixed C-2

Rita Behrend is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.

References

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

World Champions in Mixed Canoe Slalom C-2

1955: Czechoslovakia (Dana Martanová & Jiří Pecka)
1957: East Germany (Brigitte Schmidt & Manfred Glöckner)
1959: East Germany (Rita Behrend & Manfred Merkel)
1961: Czechoslovakia (Vratislava Nováková & Karel Novák)
1963: Yugoslavia (Alenka Bernot & Borut Justin)
1965: Czechoslovakia (Ludmilla Sirotková & Václav Janoušek)
1967: Czechoslovakia (Jaroslava Krčálová & Milan Svoboda)
1969: Czechoslovakia (Jitka Traplová & Milan Svoboda)
1971: Czechoslovakia (Hana Koudelová & Jiří Koudela)
1973: United States (Carol Knight & Dave Knight)
1975: United States (Marietta Gillman & Chuck Lyda)
1977: United States (Marietta Gillman & Chuck Lyda)
1979: Not held
1981: United States (Elizabeth Hayman & Fritz Haller)

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