2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Szeged, Hungary, from August 17 to 20 2006. This was the second time the Hungarian city had hosted the championships, doing so previously in 1998.

Men race as individuals, pairs and quads over 200 m, 500 m and 1000 m in both Canoe (Canadian) (C) and Kayak (K) events, giving a total of 18 gold medals. Women compete for only 9 gold medals as they race in kayak events only.

This was the 35th championships in canoe sprint.

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Highlights

Host nation Hungary won twelve of the twenty-seven gold medals. Germany, who had topped the medal table in Zagreb in 2005, took four golds, as did Russia.

Hungary's medal haul included victories in all nine women's finals, Natasa Janics and Katalin Kovács winning six titles each.

In the men's races, Mexican Everardo Cristóbal shocked the top Europeans with victory in the C-1 1000 m final, giving Mexico their first-ever world championship gold medal. The K-1 1000 m, the Blue Riband event, was won by Markus Oscarsson of Sweden.

Germany's Ronald Rauhe won three gold medals to give him a career total of ten. Hungarian György Kolonics, who holds the (men's) record for paddlers currently in competition, won the fourteenth gold medal of his career in the C-2 1000 m final. Russia's Maxim Opalev won his eleventh title. Other perennial favourites such as Andreas Dittmer, Eirik Verås Larsen and Adam van Koeverden however were unable to repeat previous successes. Germany won their first-ever C-4 title (1000 m). In the men's K-4 races, however, no German boats made the podium - the first time that had happened since 1977. Special mention should also go to the Czech Petr Procházka, the oldest man at the championships, who took gold in the C-4 200 m final.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
C-1 200 m  Nikolay Lipkin (RUS) 39.789  Valentin Demyanenko (UKR) 40.137  Jevgenij Cuklin (LTU) 40.441
C-1 500 m  Maxim Opalev (RUS) 1:49.727  Yuriy Cheban (UKR) 1:50.459  Wenjun Yang (CHN) 1:50.603
C-1 1000 m  Everardo Cristóbal (MEX) 4:07.855  Andreas Dittmer (GER) 4:10.741  Attila Vajda (HUN) 4:11.347
C-2 200 m  Russia
Evgeny Ignatov
Ivan Shtyl
36.494  Germany
Christian Gille
Tomasz Wylenzek
36.978  Lithuania
Raimundas Labuckas
Tomas Gadelkis
37.058
C-2 500 m  Russia
Alexander Kostoglod
Sergey Ulegin
1:41.520  Germany
Stefan Holtz
Robert Nuck
1:42.792  Hungary
György Kozmann
György Kolonics
1:42.942
C-2 1000 m  Hungary
György Kozmann
György Kolonics
3:43.781  Canada
Attila Buday
Tamas Buday Jr.
3:46.151  Ukraine
Maksym Prokopenko
Sergiy Bezugliy
3:46.769
C-4 200 m  Czech Republic
Petr Procházka
Jiří Heller
Jan Břečka
Petr Fuksa
34.052  Belarus
Konstantin Shcharbak
Dzmitry Rabchanka
Aleksandr Vauchetskiy
Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
34.132  Hungary
Pál Sarudi
Márton Joób
Gábor Horváth
Péter Balázs
34.336
C-4 500 m  Belarus
Dzmitry Rabchanka
Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
Konstantin Shcharbak
Aleksandr Vauchetskiy
1:31.820  Poland
Łukasz Woszczyński
Paweł Baraszkiewicz
Marcin Grzybowski
Pawel Skowronski
1:32.360  Romania
Gabriel Talpă
Florin Mironcic
Loredan Popa
Silviu Simioncencu
1:33.710
C-4 1000 m  Germany
Robert Nuck
Stephan Breuing
Stefan Holtz
Thomas Lück
3:27.422  Canada
Andrew Russell
Thomas Hall
Kyle Jeffery
Dmitri Joukovski
3:28.394  Belarus
Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk
Aliaksandr Zhukouski
Aleksandr Bagdanovich
Andrey Bagdanovich
3:28.880

Kayak

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 200 m  Ronald Rauhe (GER) 35.200  Carlos Pérez (ESP) 35.396  Mykola Kremer (UKR) 35.516
K-1 500 m  Marek Twardowski (POL) 1:38.596  Anton Ryakhov (RUS) 1:38.698  Lutz Altepost (GER) 1:39.832
K-1 1000 m  Markus Oscarsson (SWE) 3:39.359  Tim Brabants (GBR) 3:39.419  Ben Fouhy (NZL) 3:39.443
K-2 200 m  Germany
Ronald Rauhe
Tim Wieskötter
32.660  Poland
Marek Twardowski
Adam Wysocki
32.804  Serbia
Dragan Zoric
Ognjen Filipovic
32.912
K-2 500 m  Germany
Ronald Rauhe
Tim Wieskötter
1:27.791  Canada
Richard Dessureault-Dober
Andrew Willows
1:28.631  Hungary
Gábor Kucsera
Zoltán Kammerer
1:29.063
K-2 1000 m  Hungary
Gábor Kucsera
Zoltán Kammerer
3:17.791  Germany
Rupert Wagner
Andreas Ihle
3:19.075  Poland
Tomasz Górski
Adam Seroczyński
3:19.837
K-4 200 m  Serbia
Milan Djenadić
Ognjen Filipovic
Bora Sibinkic
Dragan Zoric
29.965  Hungary
Viktor Kadler
Gergely Gyertyános
Balázs Babella
István Beé
30.033  Russia
Sergey Kosilov
Konstantin Vishnyakov
Stephan Shevchuk
Sergey Khovanskiy
30.401
K-4 500 m  Slovakia
Richard Riszdorfer
Michal Riszdorfer
Róbert Erban
Erik Vlček
1:20.606  Hungary
Attila Csamangó
Gábor Bozsik
Attila Boros
Márton Sik
1:21.188  Poland
Adam Wysocki
Paweł Baumann
Przmyslaw Gawrych
Tomasz Mendelski
1:21.536
K-4 1000 m  Hungary
Ákos Vereckei
Roland Kökény
Lajos Gyökös
Gábor Horváth
2:56.523  Poland
Marek Twardowski
Tomasz Mendelski
Paweł Baumann
Adam Wysocki
2:57.873  Belarus
Vadzim Makhneu
Dziamyan Turchyn
Aleksey Abalmasov
Raman Piatrushenka
2:57.897

Women's

Kayak

Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 200 m  Tímea Paksy (HUN) 40.203  Spela Ponomarenko (SLO) 40.947  Karen Furneaux (CAN) 41.071
K-1 500 m  Dalma Benedek (HUN) 1:52.287  Josefa Idem (ITA) 1:53.265  Zhong Hongyan (CHN) 1:53.307
K-1 1000 m  Dalma Benedek (HUN) 4:04.683  Katrin Wagner-Augustin (GER) 4:06.933  Michala Mruzková (CZE) 4:07.293
K-2 200 m  Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Natasa Janics
37.423  Germany
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Fanny Fischer
37.919  Finland
Jenni Honkanen
Anne Rikala
37.983
K-2 500 m  Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Natasa Janics
1:41.998  Czech Republic
Jana Bláhová
Michala Mruzková
1:43.408  Germany
Fanny Fischer
Gesine Ruge
1:43.432
K-2 1000 m  Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Natasa Janics
3:48.982  China
Zhu Minyuan
Yang Yali
3:49.756  Belarus
Hanna Pushkova-Areshka
Natalya Bandarenko
3:51.664
K-4 200 m  Hungary
Tímea Paksy
Melinda Patyi
Natasa Janics
Katalin Kovács
34.650  Germany
Judith Hörmann
Nicole Reinhardt
Carolin Leonhardt
Conny Waßmuth
35.090  Sweden
Josefin Nordlöw
Sofia Paldanius
Karin Johansson
Anna Karlsson
36.046
K-4 500 m  Hungary (HUN)
Krisztina Fazekas
Tímea Paksy
Natasa Janics
Katalin Kovács
1:31.763  Germany (GER)
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Carolin Leonhardt
Conny Waßmuth
Judith Hörmann
1:31.817  Romania (ROM)
Mariana Ciobanu
Lidia Talpă
Florica Vulpeş
Alina Platon
1:34.535
K-4 1000 m  Hungary (HUN)
Natasa Janics
Alexandra Keresztesi
Katalin Kovács
Tímea Paksy
3:23.488  Germany (GER)
Carolin Leonhardt
Miriam Frenken
Tanja Schuck
Silke Hörmann
3:24.106  China (CHN)
Yu Lamei
Wang Feng
Zhang Jinmei
He Jing
3:25.012

Medals table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Hungary 12 2 4 18
2  Germany 4 9 2 15
3  Russia 4 1 1 6
4  Poland 1 3 2 6
5  Belarus 1 1 3 5
6  Canada 0 3 1 4
7  Ukraine 0 2 2 4
8  China 0 1 3 4
9  Czech Republic 1 1 1 3
10  Serbia 1 0 1 2
11  Sweden 1 0 1 2
12  Lithuania 0 0 2 2
13  Romania 0 0 2 2
14  Mexico 1 0 0 1
15  Slovakia 1 0 0 1
16  Spain 0 1 0 1
17  Italy 0 1 0 1
18  Slovenia 0 1 0 1
19  United Kingdom 0 1 0 1
20  Finland 0 0 1 1
21  New Zealand 0 0 1 1
Total 27 27 27 81

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