Ryszard Oborski had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 1st 1974 K2 500 m (with Grzegorz Śledziewski, 1st 1977 K4 500 m (with Daniel Wełna, Grzegorz Kołtan, and Henryk Budzicz), 1st 1977 K4 1000 m (with Henryk Budzicz, Grzegorz Kołtan, and Daniel Wełna), 2nd 1979 K4 1000 m (with Grzegorz Kołtan, Grzegorz Śledziewski, and Daniel Wełna), 2nd 1981 K4 10000 m (with Andrzej Klimaszewski, Zdzisław Szubski, and the non-Olympian Leszek Jamroziński), 3rd 1974 K1 4×500 m (with Kazimierz Górecki, Andrzej Matysiak, Grzegorz Śledziewski), 3rd 1974 K4 10000 m (with Kazimierz Górecki, Grzegorz Kołtan, and Andrzej Matysiak), 3rd 1978 K4 500 m (with Henryk Budzicz, Grzegorz Kołtan, and Daniel Wełna), 3rd 1979 K4 500 m (with Grzegorz Kołtan, Grzegorz Śledziewski, and Daniel Wełna), 3rd 1983 K4 10000 m (with Andrzej Klimaszewski and the non-Olympians Ireneusz Clurzyński and Krzysztof Szczepański).