2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Canoe racing event in Szeged, Hungary 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Hungary Szeged, Hungary August 17–20, 2006 2005 2007 The 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Szeged, Hungary, from August 17 to 20 2006. This was the second time the 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 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 Men's #ccccff darkgray Non-Olympic classes Canoe C-1 200 m Nikolay Lipkin RUS 39.789 Valentin Demyanenko UKR 40.137 Jevgenij Cuklin LTU 40.441C-1 500 m Maksim Opalev RUS 1:49.727 Yuriy Cheban UKR 1:50.459 Wenjun Yang CHN 1:50.603C-1 1000 m Everardo Cristóbal MEX 4:07.855 Andreas Dittmer GER 4:10.741 Attila Vajda HUN 4:11.347C-2 200 m RussiaEvgeny IgnatovIvan Shtyl 36.494 GermanyChristian GilleTomasz Wylenzek 36.978 Raimundas LabuckasTomas Gadelkis 37.058C-2 500 m RussiaAlexander KostoglodSergey Ulegin 1:41.520 GermanyStefan HoltzRobert Nuck 1:42.792 György KozmannGyörgy Kolonics 1:42.942C-2 1000 m György KozmannGyörgy Kolonics 3:43.781 CanadaAttila BudayTamas Buday Jr. 3:46.151 Maksym ProkopenkoSergiy Bezugliy 3:46.769C-4 200 m Petr ProcházkaJiří HellerJan BřečkaPetr Fuksa 34.052 Konstantin ShcharbakDzmitry RabchankaAleksandr VauchetskiyDzmitry Vaitsishkin 34.132 Pál SarudiMárton JoóbGábor HorváthPéter Balázs 34.336C-4 500 m Dzmitry RabchankaDzmitry VaitsishkinKonstantin ShcharbakAleksandr Vauchetskiy 1:31.820 PolandŁukasz WoszczyńskiPaweł BaraszkiewiczMarcin GrzybowskiPawel Skowronski 1:32.360 Gabriel TalpăFlorin MironcicLoredan PopaSilviu Simioncencu 1:33.710C-4 1000 m GermanyRobert NuckStephan BreuingStefan HoltzThomas Lück 3:27.422 CanadaAndrew RussellThomas HallKyle JefferyDmitri Joukovski 3:28.394 Aliaksandr KurliandchykAliaksandr ZhukouskiAliaksandr BahdanovichAndrei Bahdanovich 3:28.880 Kayak K-1 200 m Ronald Rauhe GER 35.200 Carlos Pérez ESP 35.396 Mykola Kremer UKR 35.516K-1 500 m Marek Twardowski POL 1:38.596 Anton Ryakhov RUS 1:38.698 Lutz Altepost GER 1:39.832K-1 1000 m Markus Oscarsson SWE 3:39.359 Tim Brabants GBR 3:39.419 Ben Fouhy NZL 3:39.443K-2 200 m GermanyRonald RauheTim Wieskötter 32.660 PolandMarek TwardowskiAdam Wysocki 32.804 Dragan ZorićOgnjen Filipović 32.912K-2 500 m GermanyRonald RauheTim Wieskötter 1:27.791 CanadaRichard Dessureault-DoberAndrew Willows 1:28.631 Gábor KucseraZoltán Kammerer 1:29.063K-2 1000 m Gábor KucseraZoltán Kammerer 3:17.791 GermanyRupert WagnerAndreas Ihle 3:19.075 PolandTomasz GórskiAdam Seroczyński 3:19.837K-4 200 m Milan ĐenadićOgnjen FilipovićBora SibinkićDragan Zorić 29.965 Viktor KadlerGergely GyertyánosBalázs BabellaIstván Beé 30.033 RussiaSergey KosilovKonstantin VishnyakovStephan ShevchukSergey Khovanskiy 30.401K-4 500 m Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferRóbert ErbanErik Vlček 1:20.606 Attila CsamangóGábor BozsikAttila BorosMárton Sik 1:21.188 PolandAdam WysockiPaweł BaumannPrzemysław GawrychTomasz Mendelski 1:21.536K-4 1000 m Ákos VereckeiRoland KökényLajos GyökösGábor Horváth 2:56.523 PolandMarek TwardowskiTomasz MendelskiPaweł BaumannAdam Wysocki 2:57.873 Vadzim MakhneuDziamyan TurchynAleksey AbalmasovRaman Piatrushenka 2:57.897 Women's #ccccff darkgray Non-Olympic classes Kayak K-1 200 m Tímea Paksy HUN 40.203 Špela Ponomarenko SLO 40.947 Karen Furneaux CAN 41.071K-1 500 m Dalma Benedek HUN 1:52.287 Josefa Idem ITA 1:53.265 Zhong Hongyan CHN 1:53.307K-1 1000 m Dalma Benedek HUN 4:04.683 Katrin Wagner-Augustin GER 4:06.933 Michaela Mrůzková CZE 4:07.293K-2 200 m Katalin KovácsNataša Janić 37.423 GermanyKatrin Wagner-AugustinFanny Fischer 37.919 Jenni HonkanenAnne Rikala 37.983K-2 500 m Katalin KovácsNataša Janić 1:41.998 Jana BlahováMichaela Mrůzková 1:43.408 GermanyFanny FischerGesine Ruge 1:43.432K-2 1000 m Katalin KovácsNataša Janić 3:48.982 ChinaZhu MinyuanYang Yali 3:49.756 Hanna Pushkova-AreshkaNatalya Bandarenko 3:51.664K-4 200 m Tímea PaksyMelinda PatyiNataša JanićKatalin Kovács 34.650 GermanyJudith HörmannNicole ReinhardtCarolin LeonhardtConny Waßmuth 35.090 SwedenJosefin NordlöwSofia PaldaniusKarin JohanssonAnna Karlsson 36.046K-4 500 m HUNKrisztina FazekasTímea PaksyNataša JanićKatalin Kovács 1:31.763 GERKatrin Wagner-AugustinCarolin LeonhardtConny WaßmuthJudith Hörmann 1:31.817 ROMMariana CiobanuLidia TalpăFlorica VulpeşAlina Platon 1:34.535K-4 1000 m HUNNataša JanićAlexandra KeresztesiKatalin KovácsTímea Paksy 3:23.488 GERCarolin LeonhardtMiriam FrenkenTanja SchuckSilke Hörmann 3:24.106 CHNYu LameiWang FengZhang JinmeiHe Jing 3:25.012 Medal table flagcountry 12 2 4 4 9 2 4 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 0 3 1 0 2 2 0 1 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 References Medal table Results of Flatwater Racing World Championships https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221612/http://sports123.com/can/ 2007-09-26 International Canoe Federation Final A video Photos Canoe sprint Canoe sprint Category:ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Category:International sports competitions hosted by Hungary Category:Canoeing in Hungary