The 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the second time, having hosted them in 1971. This also equaled the most times a city had done so with Copenhagen, Denmark (1950, 1970).
The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.
This was the twelfth championships in canoe sprint. It marked the first time in the championships' history in which there was tie for a medal and that happened to be for the gold in the men's K-1 1000 m event between Italy's Oreste Perri and Poland's Grzegorz Śledziewski. The second would occur thirty-five years later in the C-1 200 m (debuted 1994) for the bronze between Canada's Richard Dalton and Ukraine's Yuriy Cheban, neither of who were born in 1975.
Medal summary Men's Canoe Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze TimeC-1 500 m C-1 1000 m C-1 10000 m C-2 500 m Aleksandr VinogradovYuri Lobanov Tomáš ŠachJiří Čtvrtečka Gábor ÁrvaPéter PovázsayC-2 1000 m Gábor ÁrvaPéter Povázsay Gheorghe DanielovGheorghe Simionov Roman VyzhenkoAleksandr VinogradovC-2 10000 m Vladas ČesiūnasYuri Lobanov Tamás BudayOszkár Frey Ivan BurtschinStefan Iliev
Kayak Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze TimeK-1 500 m K-1 1000 m (tie)and None K-1 10000 m K-1 4 x 500 m relay Iván HerczegJózsef SvidróZoltán SztanityPéter Várhelyi Nicușor EșanuMihai ZafiuIon DragulschiVasile Dîba Herminio MenéndezJosé Ramón LópezLuis Gregorio RamosMartin VázquezK-2 500 m Viktor VorobiyevNikolay Astapkovich Herbert LaabsHarald Marg Larion SergheiPolicarp MalîhinK-2 1000 m Alexander SlatnowGerhard Rummel Larion SergheiPolicarp Malîhin József DemeJános RátkaiK-2 10000 m Zoltán BakóIstván Szabó Danio MerliGiorgi Sbruzzi Valeriy ZhemezaPetras ŠiurskasK-4 1000 m Herminio RodriguezJosé María EstebanJosé Ramón LópezLuis Gregorio Ramos Herbert LaabsGerhard RummelRüdiger HelmHarald Marg István SzabóZoltán BakóJózsef DemeJános RátkaiK-4 10000 m Einar RasmussenSteinar AmundsenAndreas OrheimOlaf Søyland Costel CoșnițăCuprian MacarencuVasilie SimiocencoNicușor Eșanu Leonid DerevyankoNikolai GorbachevPytor ZhurgaAnatoliy Zharkin
Women's Kayak Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze TimeK-1 500 m K-2 500 m Bärbel KösterCarola Zirzow Galina KreftYekaterina Nagimaya Maria KazaneckaKatarzyna KulczakK-4 500 m Bärbel KösterAnke OhdeBettina MüllerCarola Zirzow Larissa BesnitzkayaGalina KreftYekaterina NagimayaNadezhda Trachimenok Ilona TőzsérMária ZakariásKlára RajnaiÁgnes Pozsonyi
Medals table
References 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.