Canoeing at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games:

Men's Canadian Singles, 1,000 metres

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Host City: Ciudad de México, Mexico
Venue(s): Virgilio Uribe Olympic Course, Canal de Cuemanco, Xochimilco
Date Started: October 22, 1968
Date Finished: October 25, 1968

Gold:	Tibor Tatai
Silver:	Detlef Lewe
Bronze:	Vitaly Galkov

Final Standings

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	Medal
1	Tibor Tatai	24	Hungary	HUN	Gold
2	Detlef Lewe	29	West Germany	FRG	Silver
3	Vitaly Galkov	29	Soviet Union	URS	Bronze
4	Jiří Čtvrtečka	25	Czechoslovakia	TCH
5	Boris Lyubenov	21	Bulgaria	BUL
6	Ove Emanuelsson	27	Sweden	SWE
7	Ivan Patzaichin	18	Romania	ROU
8	Andreas Weigand	23	United States	USA
9	Christopher Hook	21	Canada	CAN
4 h1r2/3	Felipe Ojeda	27	Mexico	MEX
5 h1r2/3	Tetsumasa Yamaguchi	21	Japan	JPN

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