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{{Short description|International rowing regatta}}
{{use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox sports competition event
| name        = 2006 World Rowing Championships
| image       = 
| caption     = 
| venue       = [[Dorney Lake]]
| location    = [[Dorney]], Great Britain
| dates       = 20 to 27 August
| competitors = <!-- number -->
| nations     = <!-- number -->
| prev        = [[2005 World Rowing Championships|2005 Kaizu]]
| next        = [[2007 World Rowing Championships|2007 Oberschleißheim]]
}}
The '''2006 World Rowing Championships''' were [[World Rowing Championships]] that were held from 20 to 27 August 2006 at [[Dorney Lake]], [[Dorney]], Great Britain.<ref name="overview">{{cite web |title=2006 World Rowing Championships |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-world-championships/ |publisher=[[International Rowing Federation]] |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071437/http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-world-championships/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Medal summary==

===Men===
{{Color box|#ccccff||border=darkgray}} Non-Olympic classes
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!scope="col"| Event
! scope="col" style="background:gold;"| Gold
! scope="col" style="background:gold;"| Time
! scope="col" style="background:silver;"| Silver
! scope="col" style="background:silver;"| Time
! scope="col" style="background:#c96;"| Bronze
! scope="col" style="background:#c96;"| Time
|-
| M1x
| {{flag|New Zealand}}  <br> [[Mahé Drysdale]]
| 6:35.40
| {{flag|Germany}} <br>[[Marcel Hacker]]
| 6:35.49
| {{flag|Czech Republic}} <br>[[Ondřej Synek]]
| 6:37.51
|-
| M2x
| {{flag|France}} <br> [[Jean-Baptiste Macquet]] <br> [[Adrien Hardy]]
| 6:07.60
| {{flag|Slovenia}} <br> [[Luka Špik]] <br> [[Iztok Čop]]
| 6:09.79
| {{flag|UK|name=Great Britain}}   <br> [[Matthew Wells (rower)|Matthew Wells]] <br> [[Stephen Rowbotham]]
| 6:10.95
|-
| M2-
| {{flag|Australia}} <br>[[Drew Ginn]] <br> [[Duncan Free]]
| 6:18.00
| {{flag|New Zealand}} <br>[[Nathan Twaddle]] <br> [[George Bridgewater]]
| 6:19.13
| {{flag|Canada}}  <br> [[Kevin Light]] <br> [[Malcolm Howard (rower)|Malcolm Howard]]
| 6:21.83
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| M2+
| {{flag|Serbia and Montenegro}} <br>[[Nikola Stojić]]<br> [[Jovan Popović (rower)|Jovan Popović]] <br> [[Ivan Ninković]]
| 6:51.27
| {{flag|Italy}}  <br> [[Francesco Gabriele (rower)|Francesco Gabriele]]<br> [[Dario Cerasola]] <br> [[Andrea Riva]]
| 6:54.39
| {{flag|Canada}}  <br> [[Andrew Byrnes]]<br> [[Derek O'Farrell]] <br> [[Brian Price (rowing)|Brian Price]]
| 6:55.41
|-
| M4x
| {{flag|Poland}} <br>[[Konrad Wasielewski]]<br> [[Marek Kolbowicz]]<br> [[Michał Jeliński]] <br> [[Adam Korol]]
| 5:38.99
| {{flag|Ukraine}}  <br> [[Volodymyr Pavlovskiy]]<br> [[Dmytro Prokopenko]]<br> [[Serhiy Biloushchenko]] <br> [[Serhiy Hryn (rower)|Sergiy Gryn]]
| 5:40.47
| {{flag|Estonia}}  <br> [[Allar Raja]]<br> [[Igor Kuzmin]]<br> [[Tõnu Endrekson]] <br> [[Andrei Jämsä]]
| 5:41.23
|-
| M4-
| {{flag|UK|name=Great Britain}}  <br>[[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]]<br> [[Pete Reed]]<br> [[Alex Partridge]] <br> [[Andrew Triggs Hodge]]
| 5:43.75
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Gregor Hauffe]]<br> [[Toni Seifert]]<br> [[Urs Käufer]] <br> [[Filip Adamski]]
| 5:44.64
| {{flag|Netherlands}}  <br> [[Geert Cirkel]]<br> [[Jan-Willem Gabriëls]]<br> [[Matthijs Vellenga]] <br> [[Gijs Vermeulen]]
| 5:45.54
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| M4+
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Jan-Martin Bröer]]<br> [[Matthias Flach (rower)|Matthias Flach]]<br> [[Philipp Naruhn]]<br> [[Florian Eichner]] <br> [[Martin Sauer (rowing)|Martin Sauer]]
| 6:05.77
| {{flag|Canada}}  <br> [[Max Lang (rower)|Max Lang]]<br> [[Chris Aylard]]<br> [[Robert Gibson (rower)|Robert Gibson]]<br> [[Will Crothers]] <br> [[Stephen Cheng]]
| 6:06.47
| {{flag|New Zealand}}  <br> [[James Dallinger]]<br> [[Steven Cottle]]<br> [[Paul Gerritsen]]<br> [[Dane Boswell]] <br> [[Daniel Quigley (rowing)|Daniel Quigley]]
| 6:07.37
|-
| M8+
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Jörg Dießner]]<br> [[Sebastian Schulte]]<br> [[Stephan Koltzk]]<br> [[Philipp Stüer]]<br> [[Jan Tebrügge]]<br> [[Ulf Siemes]]<br> [[Thorsten Engelmann]]<br> [[Bernd Heidicker]] <br> [[Peter Thiede]]
| 5:21.85
| {{flag|Italy}}  <br> [[Lorenzo Carboncini]]<br> [[Niccolò Mornati]]<br> [[Luca Agamennoni]]<br> [[Alessio Sartori]]<br> [[Mario Palmisano]]<br> [[Dario Dentale]]<br> [[Pierpaolo Frattini]]<br> [[Carlo Mornati]] <br> [[Gaetano Iannuzzi]]
| 5:23.29
| {{flag|United States}}  <br>[[Paul Daniels (rower)|Paul Daniels]]<br> [[Matt Deakin]]<br> [[Steven Coppola]]<br> [[Kenneth Jurkowski]]<br> [[Giuseppe Lanzone]]<br> [[Daniel Walsh (rower)|Daniel Walsh]]<br> [[Beau Hoopman]]<br> [[Marcus McElhenney]] <br> [[Christopher Liwski]]
| 5:24.14
|-
! colspan="7" style="background-color:#CCC;" | Men's lightweight events
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| LM1x
| {{flag|UK|name=Great Britain}}  <br>[[Zac Purchase]]
| 6:47.82
| {{flag|Spain}}  <br>[[Juan Zunzunegui Guimerans]]
| 6:50.14
| {{flag|New Zealand}} <br>[[Duncan Grant (rower)|Duncan Grant]]
| 6:52.73
|-
| LM2x
| {{flag|Denmark}}  <br> [[Mads Rasmussen]] <br> [[Rasmus Quist Hansen]]
| 6:11.42
| {{flag|Italy}}  <br> [[Marcello Miani]] <br> [[Elia Luini]]
| 6:14.90
| {{flag|France}}  <br> [[Fabrice Moreau (rower)|Fabrice Moreau]] <br> [[Frédéric Dufour]]
| 6:15.94
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| LM2-
| {{DEU}} <br /> [[Ole Rückbrodt]] <br> [[Felix Otto (rower)|Felix Otto]]
| 6:28.41
| {{ESP}} <br /> [[Juan Manuel Florido Pellón]] <br> [[Jesús González Álvarez]]
| 6:30.17
| {{ITA}} <br /> [[Andrea Caianiello]] <br> [[Salvatore Di Somma]]
| 6:30.64
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| LM4x
| {{flag|Italy}} <br>[[Gardino Pellolio]]<br> [[Daniele Gilardoni]]<br> [[Luca Moncada]] <br> [[Daniele Danesin]]
| 5:53.83
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Kai Anspach]]<br> [[Martin Rückbrodt]]<br> [[Knud Lange]] <br> [[Christoph Schregel]]
| 5:55.87
| {{flag|France}}  <br> [[Bastien Tabourier]]<br> [[Quentin Colard]]<br> [[Maxime Goisset]] <br> [[Rémi Di Girolamo]]
| 5:57.42
|-
| LM4-
| {{flag|China}}  <br>[[Huang Zhongming]]<br> [[Wu Chongkui]]<br> [[Zhang Lin (rower)|Lin Zhang]] <br> [[Tian Jun (rower)|Tian Jun]]
| 5:49.43
| {{flag|France}}  <br>[[Franck Solforosi]]<br> [[Jérémy Pouge]]<br> [[Jean-Christophe Bette]] <br> [[Fabien Tilliet]]
| 5:51.26
| {{flag|Ireland}}  <br> [[Gearoid Towey]]<br> [[Eugene Coakley]]<br> [[Richard Archibald]] <br> [[Paul Griffin (rower)|Paul Griffin]]
| 5:51.35
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| LM8+
| '''{{ITA}}''' <br /> [[Luigi Scala]] <br /> [[Giorgio Tuccinardi]] <br /> [[Livio La Padula]] <br /> [[Franco Sancassani]] <br /> [[Martino Goretti]] <br /> [[Michele Savrie]] <br /> [[Jiri Vlcek]] <br /> [[Francesco Gabriele (rower)|Fabrizio Gabriele]] <br /> [[Andrea Lenzi]]
| 5:36.35
| '''{{GER}}''' <br /> [[Marc Rippel]] <br /> [[Christian Scherhag]] <br /> [[Björn Steinfurth]] <br /> [[Alexander Bernhardt]] <br /> [[Jost Schömann-Finck]] <br /> [[Matthias Schömann-Finck]] <br /> [[Lutz Ackermann]] <br /> [[Matthias Veit]] <br /> [[Felix Erdmann]]
| 5:38.48
| '''{{POL}}''' <br /> [[Tomasz Kowalik]] <br /> [[Łukasz Siemion]] <br /> [[Mariusz Stańczuk]] <br /> [[Jarosław Bielaszewski]] <br /> [[Szymon Wiśniewski]] <br /> [[Maciej Madej]] <br /> [[Łukasz Pawłowski]] <br /> [[Cezary Mrozowicz]] <br /> [[Rafał Woźniak]]
| 5:38.71
|}

===Women===
{{Color box|#ccccff||border=darkgray}} Non-Olympic classes
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!scope="col"| Event
! scope="col" style="background:gold;"| Gold
! scope="col" style="background:gold;"| Time
! scope="col" style="background:silver;"| Silver
! scope="col" style="background:silver;"| Time
! scope="col" style="background:#c96;"| Bronze
! scope="col" style="background:#c96;"| Time
|-
| W1x
| {{flag|Belarus|1995}}  <br> [[Ekaterina Karsten|Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch]]
| 7:11.02
| {{flag|Czech Republic}} <br>[[Miroslava Knapková]]
| 7:15.02
| {{flag|Sweden}} <br>[[Frida Svensson (rower)|Frida Svensson]]
| 7:18.35
|-
| W2x
| {{flag|Australia}} <br> [[Elizabeth Kell]] <br> [[Brooke Pratley]]
| 6:47.67
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Britta Oppelt]] <br> [[Susanne Schmidt]]
| 6:47.95
| {{flag|New Zealand}} <br> [[Georgina Evers-Swindell]] <br> [[Caroline Evers-Swindell]]
| 6:48.82
|-
| W2-
| {{flag|Canada}} <br>[[Darcy Marquardt]] <br> [[Jane Thornton]]
| 6:54.68
| {{flag|New Zealand}} <br>[[Juliette Haigh]] <br> [[Nicky Coles]]
| 6:56.72
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Nicole Zimmermann]] <br> [[Elke Hipler]]
| 6:57.11
|-
| W4x
| {{flag|UK|name=Great Britain}}  <br>[[Debbie Flood]]<br> [[Sarah Winckless]]<br> [[Frances Houghton]] <br> [[Katherine Grainger]]
| 6:12.50
| {{flag|Australia}}  <br> [[Catriona Sens]]<br> [[Sonia Mills]]<br> [[Dana Faletic]] <br> [[Sally Kehoe]]
| 6:13.99
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Christiane Huth]]<br> [[Magdalena Schmude]]<br> [[Jeannine Hennicke]] <br> [[Stephanie Schiller]]
| 6:14.67
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| W4-
| {{flag|Australia}}  <br>[[Robyn Selby Smith]]<br> [[Jo Lutz]]<br> [[Amber Bradley]] <br> [[Kate Hornsey]]
| 6:25.35
| {{flag|China}}  <br> [[Yu Fei (rower)|Yu Fei]]<br> [[Li Meng (rower)|Li Meng]]<br> [[Tong Li (rower)|Tong Li]] <br> [[Luo Xiuhua]]
| 6:26.75
| {{flag|United States}}  <br> [[Portia McGee|Portia Johnson]]<br> [[Erin Cafaro]]<br> [[Esther Lofgren]] <br> [[Rachel Jeffers]]
| 6:28.66
|-
| W8+
| {{flag|United States}}  <br>[[Brett Sickler]]<br> [[Megan Cooke]]<br> [[Anna Goodale]]<br> [[Lindsay Shoop]]<br> [[Anna Mickelson]]<br> [[Susan Francia]]<br> [[Caroline Lind]]<br> [[Caryn Davies]] <br> [[Mary Whipple]]
| 5:55.50
| {{flag|Germany}}  <br> [[Nina Wengert]]<br> [[Johanna Rönfeldt]]<br> [[Christina Hennings|Christina Gerking]]<br> [[Nadine Schmutzler]]<br> [[Lenka Wech]]<br> [[Maren Derlien]]<br> [[Nicole Zimmermann]]<br> [[Elke Hipler]] <br> [[Annina Ruppel]]
| 5:57.29
| {{flag|Australia}}  <br>[[Jo Lutz]]<br> [[Robyn Selby Smith]]<br> [[Amber Bradley]]<br> [[Kate Hornsey]]<br> [[Emily Martin (rower)|Emily Martin]]<br> [[Sarah Cook (rower)|Sarah Cook]]<br> [[Kim Brennan|Kim Crow]]<br> [[Sarah Heard]] <br> [[Elizabeth Patrick|Lizzy Patrick]]
| 6:00.29
|-
! colspan="7" style="background-color:#CCC;" | Women's lightweight events
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| LW1x
| {{flag|Netherlands}}  <br> [[Marit van Eupen]]
| 7:32.26
| {{flag|Germany}} <br>[[Berit Carow]]
| 7:33.61
| {{flag|Spain}} <br>[[Teresa Mas De Xaxars]]
| 7:34.98
|-
| LW2x
| {{flag|China}} <br>[[Xu Dongxiang]] <br> [[Yan Shimin]]
| 6:55.12
| {{flag|Australia}}  <br> [[Marguerite Houston]] <br> [[Amber Halliday]]
| 6:56.57
| {{flag|Greece}} <br>[[Chrysi Biskitzi]] <br> [[Alexandra Tsiavou]]
| 6:57.14
|-bgcolor=ccccff
| LW4x
| {{flag|China}} <br>[[Yu Hua (rower)|Yu Hua]]<br> [[Chen Haixia]]<br> [[Fan Xuefei]] <br> [[Liu Jing (rower)|Liu Jing]]
| 6:23.96
|  {{flag|Denmark}}  <br> Kirsten Jepsen<br> [[Sine Christiansen]]<br> [[Katrin Olsen]] <br> [[Juliane Rasmussen]]
| 6:28.16
| {{flag|UK|name=Great Britain}}   <br> [[Laura Ralston]]<br> [[Lindsay Dick]]<br> [[Hester Goodsell]] <br> [[Sophie Hosking]]
| 6:30.02
|}

=== Pararowing ===
The Pararowing classes were held over 1000 metres.
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!scope="col"| Event
! scope="col" style="background:gold;"| Gold
! scope="col" style="background:gold;"| Time
! scope="col" style="background:silver;"| Silver
! scope="col" style="background:silver;"| Time
! scope="col" style="background:#c96;"| Bronze
! scope="col" style="background:#c96;"| Time
|-
| AM1x<ref>{{cite web|title=worldrowing.com: Ergebnis des Finals im ASM1x bei den Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften 2006|periodical=|publisher=Weltruderverband|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-adaptive-world-championships/as-mens-single-sculls/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2014-10-09|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=en|pages=|quote=}}</ref>
| '''{{AUS}}'''<br /> [[Dominic Monypenny]] || 5:28,87
| '''{{USA}}'''<br /> [[Ronald Harvey (rower)|Ronald Harvey]] || 5:41,83
| '''{{GBR2}}'''<br /> [[Shaun Sewell]] || 5:55,23
|-
| AW1x<ref>{{cite web|title=worldrowing.com: Ergebnis des Finals im ASW1x bei den Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften 2006|periodical=|publisher=Weltruderverband|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-adaptive-world-championships/as-womens-single-sculls/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2014-10-09|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=en|pages=|quote=}}</ref>
| '''{{GBR2}}'''<br /> [[Helene Raynsford]] || 6:14,87
| '''{{USA}}'''<br /> [[Patricia Rollison]] || 6:23,10
| '''{{POL}}'''<br /> [[Martyna Snopek]] || 6:25,67
|-
| TA2x<ref>{{cite web|title=worldrowing.com: Ergebnis des Finals im TAMix2x bei den Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften 2006|periodical=|publisher=Weltruderverband|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-adaptive-world-championships/ta-mixed-double-sculls/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2014-10-09|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=en|pages=|quote=}}</ref>
| '''{{USA}}'''<br /> [[Scott Brown (rower)|Scott Brown]]<br /> [[Angela Madsen]] || 4:20,50
| '''{{POL}}'''<br /> [[Jolanta Pawlak]]<br /> [[Piotr Majka]] ||
| '''{{CAN}}'''<br /> [[Caitlin Renneson]]<br /> [[Wilfredo More Wilson]] || 4:30,86
|-
| LTAMx4+<ref>{{cite web|title=worldrowing.com: Ergebnis des Finals im LTAMix4+ bei den Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften 2006|periodical=|publisher=Weltruderverband|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-adaptive-world-championships/lta-mixed-coxed-four/|url-status=|format=|access-date=2014-10-09|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=en|pages=|quote=}}</ref>
| '''{{GBR2}}'''<br /> [[Naomi Riches]]<br /> [[Vicki Hansford]]<br /> [[Alastair McKean]]<br /> [[Alan Crowther]]<br /> [[Alan Sherman (rowing)|Alan Sherman]] (cox) || 3:28,21
| '''{{NLD}}'''<br /> [[Joleen Hakker]]<br /> [[Trees Blankennagel]]<br /> [[Paul de Jong]]<br /> [[Martin Lauriks]]<br /> [[Tonia Harmsen]] (cox) || 3:32,62
| '''{{CAN}}'''<br /> [[Anthony Theriault]]<br /> [[Karen van Nest]]<br /> [[Meghan Montgomery]]<br /> [[John Moorcroft]]<br /> [[Emma Ferguson]] (cox) || 3:35,19
|}

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = flagcountry
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_GER = 3 | silver_GER = 7 | bronze_GER = 2
 | gold_AUS = 3 | silver_AUS = 2 | bronze_AUS = 1
 | gold_CHN = 3 | silver_CHN = 1 | bronze_CHN = 0
 | gold_GBR = 3 | silver_GBR = 0 | bronze_GBR = 2
 | gold_ITA = 2 | silver_ITA = 3 | bronze_ITA = 1
 | gold_NZL = 1 | silver_NZL = 2 | bronze_NZL = 3
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 2
 | gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 2
 | gold_DEN = 1 | silver_DEN = 1 | bronze_DEN = 0
 | gold_USA = 1 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 2
 | gold_NED = 1 | silver_NED = 0 | bronze_NED = 1
 | gold_BLR = 1 | silver_BLR = 0 | bronze_BLR = 0
 | gold_POL = 1 | silver_POL = 0 | bronze_POL = 1
 | gold_SCG = 1 | silver_SCG = 0 | bronze_SCG = 0
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 2 | bronze_ESP = 1
 | gold_CZE = 0 | silver_CZE = 1 | bronze_CZE = 1
 | gold_UKR = 0 | silver_UKR = 1 | bronze_UKR = 0
 | gold_SLO = 0 | silver_SLO = 1 | bronze_SLO = 0
 | gold_EST = 0 | silver_EST = 0 | bronze_EST = 1
 | gold_GRE = 0 | silver_GRE = 0 | bronze_GRE = 1
 | gold_IRL = 0 | silver_IRL = 0 | bronze_IRL = 1
 | gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 1
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*Archive of [https://web.archive.org/web/20061205062836/http://wrc2006.com/ 2006 World Rowing Championships official website]
*[http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2006-world-championships//schedule-results Results]
*[https://archive.today/20121205021902/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldrowing.shtml World Championship Medal Winners]

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