2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World ChampionshipsHost city|  Szeged, Hungary

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Dates| August 17–20, 2006

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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.

## Highlights

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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 Maksim 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

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### Men's

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#### Canoe

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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C-1 200 m  |  Nikolay Lipkin (RUS) | 39.789  |  Valentin Demyanenko (UKR) | 40.137  |  Jevgenij Cuklin (LTU) | 40.441
C-1 500 m  |  Maksim 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
Aliaksandr Bahdanovich
Andrei Bahdanovich | 3:28.880

#### Kayak

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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 Zorić
Ognjen Filipović | 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 Đenadić
Ognjen Filipović
Bora Sibinkić
Dragan Zorić | 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
Przemysław 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

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#### Kayak

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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K-1 200 m  |  Tímea Paksy (HUN) | 40.203  |  Špela 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  |  Michaela Mrůzková (CZE) | 4:07.293
K-2 200 m  |  Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Nataša Janić | 37.423  |  Germany
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Fanny Fischer | 37.919  |  Finland
Jenni Honkanen
Anne Rikala | 37.983
K-2 500 m  |  Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Nataša Janić | 1:41.998  |  Czech Republic
Jana Blahová
Michaela Mrůzková | 1:43.408  |  Germany
Fanny Fischer
Gesine Ruge | 1:43.432
K-2 1000 m  |  Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Nataša Janić | 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
Nataša Janić
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
Nataša Janić
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)
Nataša Janić
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

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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|  Czech Republic| 1| 1| 1| 3
7|  Serbia| 1| 0| 1| 2
Sweden| 1| 0| 1| 2
9|  Mexico| 1| 0| 0| 1
Slovakia| 1| 0| 0| 1
11|  Canada| 0| 3| 1| 4
12|  Ukraine| 0| 2| 2| 4
13|  China| 0| 1| 3| 4
14|  Great Britain| 0| 1| 0| 1
Italy| 0| 1| 0| 1
Slovenia| 0| 1| 0| 1
Spain| 0| 1| 0| 1
18|  Lithuania| 0| 0| 2| 2
Romania| 0| 0| 2| 2
20|  Finland| 0| 0| 1| 1
New Zealand| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (21 entries)| 27| 27| 27| 81

## References

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* Medal table[usurped]
* Results of Flatwater Racing World Championships Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
* International Canoe Federation
* Final A video[usurped]
* Photos[usurped]

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