2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia, in August 2005.

Men race as individuals, pairs and quads over 200m, 500m and 1000m 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 34th championships in canoe sprint.

Highlights

The undoubted stars of the Zagreb event were Natasa Janics and Katalin Kovács of Hungary who completed an unprecedented clean sweep of all three women's K-2 events.

In the men's events, the C-4 200 m final saw Maxim Opalev of Russia win the twelfth world championship gold of his career, thus equalling György Kolonics's record. Andreas Dittmer of Germany retained both the world titles he had won in Gainesville (C-1 500 m and 1000m). Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter of Germany won their fourth consecutive K-2 500 m title, whilst compatriots Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek followed up their C-2 1000 m 2004 Athens Olympic success with two golds (C-2 500 m and 1000 m).

The championships also marked a change of generation as many stars had retired after the Olympics, especially in the women's events. Two-thirds of the winners at Zagreb were first-time gold medallists. Birgit Fischer won her last two of her record 38 medals, including a bronze in the K-2 200 m event with her niece, Fanny.

Germany topped the medal table, winning 10 of the 27 gold medals, followed by Hungary with six golds, then Spain and Russia with two golds each.

Medal summary

Men's

  Non-Olympic classes

Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C-1 200 m	Template:Flagathlete	39.264	Template:Flagathlete	39.588	Template:Flagathlete	39.984
C-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:48.409	Template:Flagathlete	1:49.065	Template:Flagathlete	1:49.609
C1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete	3:57.119	Template:Flagathlete	3:58.421	Template:Flagathlete	4:00.617
C-2 200 m	Template:Flagu Evgeny Ignatov Nikolay Lipkin	36.978	Template:Flagu Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	37.002	Serguey Torres Karel Aguilar	37.242
C-2 500 m	Template:Flagu Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	1:39.851	György Kozmann György Kolonics	1:40.175	Serguey Torres Karel Aguilar	1:40.271
C-2 1000 m	Template:Flagu Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	3:37.048	Serguey Torres Karel Aguilar	3:38.080	György Kozmann György Kolonics	3:39.130
C-4 200 m	Template:Flagu Aleksandr Kovalyov Alexander Kostoglod Roman Kruglyakov Maxim Opalev	33.867	Petr Procházka Petr Fuksa Petr Netušil Jan Břečka	34.017	Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk Aliaksandr Zhukouski Semen Saponenko Aliaksandr Bahdanovich	30.565
C-4 500 m	Loredan Popa Silviu Simioncencu Florin Popescu Iosif Chirilă	1:30.602	Dzmitry Rabchanka Dzmitry Vaitsishkin Konstantin Shcharbak Aleksandr Vauchetskiy	1:31.298	Template:Flagu Andrzej Jezierski Michał Śliwiński Michał Gajownik Adam Ginter	1:31.916
C-4 1000 m	Template:Flagu Wojciech Tyszyński Michał Śliwiński Andrzej Jezierski Michał Gajownik	3:17.407	Constantin Popa Loredan Popa Florin Mironcic Petre Condrat	3:17.863	Template:Flagu Robert Nuck Stefan Holtz Thomas Luck Stephan Breuing	3:20.479

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K-1 200 m	Template:Flagathlete	35.289	Template:Flagathlete	35.697	Template:Flagathlete	35.733
K-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:36.980	Template:Flagathlete	1:37.076	Template:Flagathlete	1:37.082
K-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete	3:29.165	Template:Flagathlete	3:29.841	Template:Flagathlete	3:30.069
K-2 200 m	Dragan Zorić Ognjen Filipović	32.253	Alvydas Duonėla Egidijus Balčiūnas	32.277	Template:Flagu Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	32.499
K-2 500 m	Template:Flagu Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	1:27.583	Template:Flagu Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	1:29.005	Alvydas Duonėla Egidijus Balčiūnas	1:29.347
K-2 1000 m	Roland Kökény Gábor Kucsera	3:18.692	Template:Flagu Andreas Ihle Marco Herszel	3:18.722	Mattis Næss Jacob Norenberg	3:18.836
K-4 200 m	Viktor Kadler István Beé Balázs Babella Gergely Gyertyános	30.211	Template:Flagu Norman Bröckl Björn Bach Björn Goldschmidt Jonas Ems	30.301	Raman Piatrushenka Aleksey Abalmasov Dziamyan Turchyn Vadzim Makhneu	30.565
K-4 500 m	Raman Piatrushenka Aleksey Abalmasov Dziamyan Turchyn Vadzim Makhneu	1:20.898	Michal Riszdorfer Juraj Tarr Andrej Wiebauer Róbert Erban	1:20.994	Template:Flagu Franco Benedini Jaka Jazbec Luca Piemonte Antonio Scaduto	1:22.634
K-4 1000 m	Template:Flagu Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Björn Bach Arnd Goldschmidt	2:56.282	Michal Riszdorfer Richard Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Róbert Erban	2:56.558	Template:Flagu Paweł Baumann Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki Przemysław Gawrych	2:57.848

Women's

  Non-Olympic classes

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K-1 200 m	Template:Flagathlete	40.756	Template:Flagathlete	41.380	Template:Flagathlete	41.542
K-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:50.407	Template:Flagathlete	1:51.379	Template:Flagathlete	1:51.565
K-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete	4:00.494	Template:Flagathlete	4:01.406	Template:Flagathlete	4:03.200
K-2 200 m	Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić	37.101	Template:Flagu Maria Teresa Portela Jana Smidakova	38.013	Template:Flagu Birgit Fischer Fanny Fischer	38.127
K-2 500 m	Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić	1:39.704	Petra Schlitzer Viktoria Schwarz	1:42.458	Template:Flagu Anne-Laure Viard Marie Delattre	1:43.118
K-2 1000 m	Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić	3:40.861	Template:Flagu Maike Nollen Nadine Opgen-Rhein	3:42.931	Template:Flagu Aneta Białkowska Joanna Skowroń	3:43.003
K-4 200 m	Template:Flagu Carolin Leonhardt Nicole Reinhardt Judith Hörmann Katrin Wagner-Augustin	35.151	Template:Flagu Iwona Pyzalska Małgorzata Czajczyńska Joanna Skowroń Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza	36.111	Template:Flagu Isabel García Ana Varela Jana Smidakova Maria Teresa Portela	36.189
K-4 500 m	Template:Flagu Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth Judith Hörmann Katrin Wagner-Augustin	1:31.686	Template:Flagu Aneta Białkowska Aneta Konieczna Joanna Skowroń Iwona Pyzalska	1:32.442	Tímea Paksy Dalma Benedek Szilvia Szabó Kinga Bóta	1:32.952
K-4 1000 m	Tímea Paksy Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski Kinga Bóta	3:20.701	Florica Vulpeş Mariana Ciobanu Lidia Talpă Alina Platon	3:21.889	Template:Flagu Birgit Fischer Maren Knebel Judith Hörmann Carolin Leonhardt	3:21.901

References

• Official website
• Results of Canoe Sprint World Championships Template:Webarchive
• International Canoe Federation
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
• Results