2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

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

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

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Canoe

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
C-1 200 m	Template:Flagathlete	39.789	Template:Flagathlete	40.137	Template:Flagathlete	40.441
C-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:49.727	Template:Flagathlete	1:50.459	Template:Flagathlete	1:50.603
C-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete	4:07.855	Template:Flagathlete	4:10.741	Template:Flagathlete	4:11.347
C-2 200 m	Template:Flagu Evgeny Ignatov Ivan Shtyl	36.494	Template:Flagu Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	36.978	Raimundas Labuckas Tomas Gadelkis	37.058
C-2 500 m	Template:Flagu Alexander Kostoglod Sergey Ulegin	1:41.520	Template:Flagu Stefan Holtz Robert Nuck	1:42.792	György Kozmann György Kolonics	1:42.942
C-2 1000 m	György Kozmann György Kolonics	3:43.781	Template:Flagu Attila Buday Tamas Buday Jr.	3:46.151	Maksym Prokopenko Sergiy Bezugliy	3:46.769
C-4 200 m	Petr Procházka Jiří Heller Jan Břečka Petr Fuksa	34.052	Konstantin Shcharbak Dzmitry Rabchanka Aleksandr Vauchetskiy Dzmitry Vaitsishkin	34.132	Pál Sarudi Márton Joób Gábor Horváth Péter Balázs	34.336
C-4 500 m	Dzmitry Rabchanka Dzmitry Vaitsishkin Konstantin Shcharbak Aleksandr Vauchetskiy	1:31.820	Template:Flagu Łukasz Woszczyński Paweł Baraszkiewicz Marcin Grzybowski Pawel Skowronski	1:32.360	Gabriel Talpă Florin Mironcic Loredan Popa Silviu Simioncencu	1:33.710
C-4 1000 m	Template:Flagu Robert Nuck Stephan Breuing Stefan Holtz Thomas Lück	3:27.422	Template:Flagu Andrew Russell Thomas Hall Kyle Jeffery Dmitri Joukovski	3:28.394	Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk Aliaksandr Zhukouski Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Andrei Bahdanovich	3:28.880

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K-1 200 m	Template:Flagathlete	35.200	Template:Flagathlete	35.396	Template:Flagathlete	35.516
K-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:38.596	Template:Flagathlete	1:38.698	Template:Flagathlete	1:39.832
K-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete	3:39.359	Template:Flagathlete	3:39.419	Template:Flagathlete	3:39.443
K-2 200 m	Template:Flagu Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	32.660	Template:Flagu Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	32.804	Dragan Zorić Ognjen Filipović	32.912
K-2 500 m	Template:Flagu Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	1:27.791	Template:Flagu Richard Dessureault-Dober Andrew Willows	1:28.631	Gábor Kucsera Zoltán Kammerer	1:29.063
K-2 1000 m	Gábor Kucsera Zoltán Kammerer	3:17.791	Template:Flagu Rupert Wagner Andreas Ihle	3:19.075	Template:Flagu Tomasz Górski Adam Seroczyński	3:19.837
K-4 200 m	Milan Đenadić Ognjen Filipović Bora Sibinkić Dragan Zorić	29.965	Viktor Kadler Gergely Gyertyános Balázs Babella István Beé	30.033	Template:Flagu Sergey Kosilov Konstantin Vishnyakov Stephan Shevchuk Sergey Khovanskiy	30.401
K-4 500 m	Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Róbert Erban Erik Vlček	1:20.606	Attila Csamangó Gábor Bozsik Attila Boros Márton Sik	1:21.188	Template:Flagu Adam Wysocki Paweł Baumann Przemysław Gawrych Tomasz Mendelski	1:21.536
K-4 1000 m	Ákos Vereckei Roland Kökény Lajos Gyökös Gábor Horváth	2:56.523	Template:Flagu Marek Twardowski Tomasz Mendelski Paweł Baumann Adam Wysocki	2:57.873	Vadzim Makhneu Dziamyan Turchyn Aleksey Abalmasov Raman Piatrushenka	2:57.897

Women's

  Non-Olympic classes

Kayak

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
K-1 200 m	Template:Flagathlete	40.203	Template:Flagathlete	40.947	Template:Flagathlete	41.071
K-1 500 m	Template:Flagathlete	1:52.287	Template:Flagathlete	1:53.265	Template:Flagathlete	1:53.307
K-1 1000 m	Template:Flagathlete	4:04.683	Template:Flagathlete	4:06.933	Template:Flagathlete	4:07.293
K-2 200 m	Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić	37.423	Template:Flagu Katrin Wagner-Augustin Fanny Fischer	37.919	Jenni Honkanen Anne Rikala	37.983
K-2 500 m	Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić	1:41.998	Jana Blahová Michaela Mrůzková	1:43.408	Template:Flagu Fanny Fischer Gesine Ruge	1:43.432
K-2 1000 m	Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić	3:48.982	Template:Flagu Zhu Minyuan Yang Yali	3:49.756	Hanna Pushkova-Areshka Natalya Bandarenko	3:51.664
K-4 200 m	Tímea Paksy Melinda Patyi Nataša Janić Katalin Kovács	34.650	Template:Flagu Judith Hörmann Nicole Reinhardt Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth	35.090	Template:Flagu Josefin Nordlöw Sofia Paldanius Karin Johansson Anna Karlsson	36.046
K-4 500 m	Template:Flagteam Krisztina Fazekas Tímea Paksy Nataša Janić Katalin Kovács	1:31.763	Template:Flagteam Katrin Wagner-Augustin Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth Judith Hörmann	1:31.817	Template:Flagteam Mariana Ciobanu Lidia Talpă Florica Vulpeş Alina Platon	1:34.535
K-4 1000 m	Template:Flagteam Nataša Janić Alexandra Keresztesi Katalin Kovács Tímea Paksy	3:23.488	Template:Flagteam Carolin Leonhardt Miriam Frenken Tanja Schuck Silke Hörmann	3:24.106	Template:Flagteam Yu Lamei Wang Feng Zhang Jinmei He Jing	3:25.012

References

• Medal tableTemplate:Category handler
• Results of Flatwater Racing World Championships Template:Webarchive
• International Canoe Federation
• Final A videoTemplate:Category handler
• PhotosTemplate:Category handler