Canoeing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games:

Women's Kayak Singles, 500 metres

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Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Krylatskoye Sports Complex, Moskva
Date Started: July 30, 1980
Date Finished: August 1, 1980

Gold:	Birgit Fischer-Schmidt
Silver:	Vanya Gesheva
Bronze:	Antonina Melnikova

Final Standings

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	Medal
1	Birgit Fischer-Schmidt	18	East Germany	GDR	Gold
2	Vanya Gesheva	20	Bulgaria	BUL	Silver
3	Antonina Melnikova	22	Soviet Union	URS	Bronze
4	Maria Ştefan-Mihoreanu	26	Romania	ROU
5	Ewa Kamińska-Eichler	27	Poland	POL
6	Agneta Andersson	19	Sweden	SWE
7	Katalin Povázsán	19	Hungary	HUN
8	Béatrice Knopf-Basson	22	France	FRA
9	Lucy Perrett	19	Great Britain	GBR
4 h1r2/3	Marleen Kuppens	21	Belgium	BEL
5 h1r2/3	Jana Polakovičová	19	Czechoslovakia	TCH

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