Ronald Rauhe

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Ronald Rauhe

Rauhe in 2007
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Competitor for  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens K-2 500 m
Silver 2008 Beijing K-2 500 m
Bronze 2000 Sydney K-2 500 m
World Championships
Gold 2001 Poznań K-1 200 m
Gold 2001 Poznań K-2 500 m
Gold 2002 Seville K-1 200 m
Gold 2002 Seville K-2 500 m
Gold 2003 Gainesville K-1 200 m
Gold 2003 Gainesville K-2 500 m
Gold 2005 Zagreb K-2 500 m
Gold 2006 Szeged K-1 200 m
Gold 2006 Szeged K-2 200 m
Gold 2006 Szeged K-2 500 m
Gold 2007 Duisburg K-2 500 m
Gold 2009 Dartmouth K-1 200 m
Gold 2009 Dartmouth K-1 500 m
Silver 2001 Poznań K-2 200 m
Silver 2007 Duisburg K-2 200 m
Silver 2009 Dartmouth K-1 4 x 200 m
Silver 2010 Poznań K-1 200 m
Bronze 1999 Milan K-1 200 m
Bronze 2002 Seville K-2 200 m
Bronze 2003 Gainesville K-2 200 m
Bronze 2011 Szeged K-1 200 m
Bronze 2013 Duisburg K–2 200 m
European Championships
Silver 2012 Zagreb K-2 200 m
Silver 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-2 200 m

Ronald Rauhe (born October 3, 1981 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals in the K-2 500 m event (gold: 2004, silver: 2008, bronze: 2000). Rauhe has won 13 world championship gold medals (21 overall) in the men's kayak discipline, the most among all kayakers, breaking the tie he shared with Torsten Gutsche in 2010.

Early Sports Career

Rauhe was selected for the 1997 World Junior Championships in Lahti, Finland at the age of just fifteen years nine months. Competing against paddlers up to three years older he won two medals – gold in the K-4 500 m and silver in the K-1 500 m, an unprecedented achievement for a fifteen-year-old. After winning three more gold medals at the next edition of the world junior championships in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1999 he stepped up to the senior German national team.

Senior Sports Career

At the age of seventeen, he enjoyed immediate success, taking the bronze medal in the men's K-1 200 m World Championship final the same year.

Since 2000, the Rauhe/Wieskötter partnership has enjoyed unrivalled success, winning the major K-2 500 m race every year (six world titles and the 2004 Olympic gold). The pair have also won seven straight European championships over 500 m.

Rauhe also dominated the K-1 200 m individual sprint, winning three consecutive golds in both the world and European championships before losing out to Spain's Carlos Pérez in 2005.

If Rauhe's rivals hoped this marked the beginning of a decline in the German's fortunes they were to be disappointed. In 2006 Rauhe was back on top form and won more titles than ever before. At the European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic he won three gold medals, retaining his K-2 500 m title, regaining the K-1 200 m crown from Pérez and winning the K-2 200 m for the first time in his career.

These three victories were repeated at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. Rauhe's dominance was best illustrated by his victory in the K-2 200 m final in a race that was scheduled just twenty minutes after his K-1 final (and against a field of rested opponents none of whom had competed in the earlier race).

At the World Championships in his home-country Germany in 2007 he and his partner Tim Wieskötter won again the K-2 500 m and came second in the K-2 200 m.

On national level he has won 50 national titles at the German Championships. His 50th title were the 500 m in the K-1 on 2 May 2009 in Duisburg.

References

Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-2 500 m
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