1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in London, Great Britain. This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation, formed in 1946 from the Internationale Repräsentantenschaft Kanusport (IRK).

The men's competition consisted of four kayak events. One kayak event was held for the women. The women's distance was reduced from 600 m to 500 m at these championships. These events were extraordinary since they were not included in the 1948 Summer Olympics, also held in London.

This was the second championships in flatwater racing and the first one after World War II ended.

Medal summary

Men's kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-1 500 m	Gert Fredriksson (SWE)	2:14.2[1]	Lars Glasser (SWE)	2:15.0[1]	Poul Agger (DEN)	2:15.4[1]
K-1 4 x 500 m relay	Sweden Lars Glasser Lars Helsvik Lennart Klingström Gert Fredriksson	8:44.5[1]	Norway Ivar Mathisen Ivar Iversen Hans Martin Gulbrandsen Eivind Skabo	8:52.2[1]	Denmark Bernhard Jensen Poul Agger Ejvind Hansen Johan Andersen	8:56.9[1]
K-2 500 m	Finland Thor Axelsson Nils Björklöf	2:06.4[1]	Denmark Alfred Christensen Finn Rasmussen	2:07.0[1]	Denmark Bernhard Jensen Ejvind Hansen	2:08.1[1]
K-4 1000 m	Sweden Hans Berglund Lennart Klingström Gunnar Åkerlund Hans Wetterström	4:01.9[1]	Austria Herbert Klepp Paul Felinger Walter Piemann Albert Umgeher	4:06.8[1]	Czechoslovakia Ludvík Klíma Karel Lomecký Ota Krouthil Miloš Pech	4:08.1[1]

Women's kayak

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
K-2 500 m	Denmark Karen Hoff Bodil Svendsen	2:22.9[1]	Czechoslovakia Marta Kohoutová Růžena Košťálová	2:23.0[1]	Austria Fritzi Schwingl Gertrude Liebhardt	2:24.0[1]

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Denmark	1	1	3	5
2	Sweden	3	1	0	4
3	Austria	0	1	1	2
4	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
5	Finland	1	0	0	1
6	Norway	0	1	0	1
Total		5	5	5	15

References

• International Canoe Federation
• 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.

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Editions	1938 1948 1950 1954 1958 1963 1966 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2001 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 Paracanoe