Canoe Racing World Championships 2003

34th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Gainesville, Georgia
Competitions	27
opening	September 10, 2003
End of competition	September 14, 2003

The 33rd Canoe Racing World Championships took place from September 10th to 14th, 2003 in the USA in Gainesville (Georgia) . The competitions were held on Lake Lanier . The World Championships were organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF).

A total of 27 competitions were held in the disciplines of canoeing and kayaking , with 18 for men and only 9 for women, since they only held kayak competitions. The distances of the regattas were 200 m, 500 m and 1000 m.

doping

The Russian Sergey Ulegin won two gold and one silver medals, but these were revoked because of the use of doping substances. His racing colleagues in the C-2 500m ( Aleksandr Kostoglod ), C-4 200 m (Kostoglod, Roman Kruglyakov and Maxim Opalew ), and C-4 500 m (Kostoglod, Kruglyakov and Maxim Opalew ) also had to hand over the medals. Ulegin was banned from sports for 2 years.

Results

Men

Canadians

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
C-1 200 m	Russia Maxim Opalew	40,896	Czech Republic Martin Doctor	40,929	Germany Andreas Dittmer	40,962
C-1 500 m	Germany Andreas Dittmer	1: 47.277	Russia Maxim Opalew	1: 47.488	Czech Republic Martin Doctor	1: 48.030
C-1 1000 m	Germany Andreas Dittmer	3: 52.482	Spain David Cal	3: 53.406	Russia Maxim Opalew	3: 55.299
C-2 200 m	Poland Paweł Baraszkiewicz Daniel Jędraszko	37,972	Czech Republic Petr Fuksa Petr Netušil	38.012	Ukraine Sergey Klimniuk Dmitriy Sablin	38,230
C-2 500 m	Poland Paweł Baraszkiewicz Daniel Jędraszko	1: 39.194	Romania Silviu Simioncencu Florian Popescu	1: 40.824	Cuba Ibrahim Rojas Ledis Balceiro	1: 41.136
C-2 1000 m	Romania Silviu Simioncencu Florian Popescu	3: 34.932	Russia Alexander Kowaljow Aleksandr Kostoglod	3: 35.325	Hungary György Kozmann György Kolonics	3: 35.428
C-4 200 m	Hungary Sándor Malomsoki Laszlo Vasali György Kozmann György Kolonics	34,737	Czech Republic Petr Fuksa Petr Netušil Jan Břečka Karel Kožíšek	35.105	Romania Silviu Simioncencu Mitică Pricop Florin Popescu Petra Condrat	35,610
C-4 500 m	Romania Silviu Simioncencu Florin Popescu Mitică Pricop Petre Condrat	1: 32.022	Poland Adam Ginter Łukasz Woszczyński Marcin Grzybowski Michał Śliwiński	1: 32.185	Hungary Csaba Hüttner Márton Joób Imre Pulai Ferenc Novák	1: 33.506
C-4 1000 m	Hungary Csaba Hüttner Gábor Furdok Imre Pulai Ferenc Novák	3: 22.090	Canada Attila Buday Tamas Buday, Jr. Maxim Boilard Dimitri Joukovski	3: 22.332	Poland Andrzej Jezierski Roman Rykiewicz Adam Ginter Wojciech Tyszyński	3: 22.446

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 200 m	Germany Ronald Rauhe	35,798	Australia Vince Fehérvári	36,411	Uzbekistan Anton Ryachow	36,417
K-1 500 m	Australia Nathan Baggaley	1: 37.541	Spain Carlos Pérez	1: 37.961	Germany Lutz Altepost	1: 38.077
K-1 1000 m	New Zealand Ben Fouhy	3: 28.852	Canada Adam van Koeverden	3: 29.720	Australia Nathan Baggaley	3: 29.909
K-2 200 m	Lithuania Alvydas Duonėla Egidijus Balčiūnas	32,972	Poland Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	33,154	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	33,385
K-2 500 m	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	1: 27.974	Belarus Roman Piatrushenko Vadzim Makhnev	1: 28.954	Lithuania Alvydas Duonėla Egidijus Balčiūnas	1: 29.205
K-2 1000 m	Sweden Markus Oscarsson Henrik Nilsson	3: 14.157	Belgium Bob Maesen Wouter D'Haene	3: 14.690	Germany Tim Huth Marco Herszel	3: 15.142
K-4 200 m	Ukraine Oleksey Slivinskiy Mykhaylo Luchnik Mykola Zalchenkov Andrij Borsukow	31,136	Romania Vasile Curuzan Marian Babin Alexandru Ceaușu Romică Șerban	31,168	Spain Manuel Muñoz Jaime Acuña Aike González Oier Aizpurua	31,260
K-4 500 m	Slovakia Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Bača	1: 20.409	Romania Vasile Curuzan Marian Babin Alexandru Ceaușu Romică Șerban	1: 21.353	Russia Aleksandr Ivannik Anatoliy Tishchenko Oleg Gorobi Vladimir Gurhsikin	1: 21.408
K-4 1000 m	Slovakia Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Bača	2: 55.291	Hungary Zoltán Kammerer Ákos Vereckei Roland Kökény Krisztián Veréb	2: 56.795	Germany Andreas Ihle Mark Zabel Björn Bach Stefan Ulm	2: 57.048

Women

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 200 m	Canada Caroline Brunet	41,344	Spain Maria Teresa Portelo	41,600	Hungary Tímea Paksy	42,298
K-1 500 m	Hungary Katalin Kovács	1: 48.996	Canada Caroline Brunet	1: 49.778	Poland Aneta Pastuszka	1: 49.785
K-1 1000 m	Hungary Katalin Kovács	4: 00.955	Germany Katrin Wagner	4: 02.122	Israel Lior Karmi	4: 03.104
K-2 200 m	Hungary Tímea Paksy Melinda Patyi	38,292	Spain Maria Teresa Portela Beatriz Manchón	38,521	Poland Aneta Pastuszka Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza	38,528
K-2 500 m	Hungary Szilvia Szabó Kinga Bóta	1: 39.984	Bulgaria Bonka Pindzeva Delyana Dacheva	1: 40.937	Poland Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza Joanna Skowroń	1: 41.577
K-2 1000 m	Hungary Tímea Paksy Dalma Benedek	3: 41,540	Germany Nadine Opgen-Rhein Manuela Mucke	3: 41.636	Canada Caroline Brunet Mylanie Barre	3: 42.752
K-4 200 m	Hungary Natasa Janics Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski Kinga Bóta	35,665	Spain Maria Garcia Suarez Beatriz Manchón Jana Smidakova Maria Teresa Portela	35,939	Poland Karolina Sadalska Aneta Pastuszka Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza Joanna Skowroń	36,118
K-4 500 m	Hungary Katalin Kovács Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski Kinga Bóta	1: 31.632	Poland Karolina Sadalska Małgorzata Czajczyńska Aneta Białkowska Joanna Skowroń	1: 33.573	Spain Maria Garcia Beatriz Manchón Jana Smidakova Maria Teresa Portela	1: 33.742
K-4 1000 m	Hungary Eszter Rasztótsky Kinga Dékány Krisztina Fazekas To the Natasa Janics	3: 13.296	Ukraine Olena Tscherewatowa Tetjana Semykina Marija Ralschewa Inna Ossypenko	3: 16.389	Australia Paula Harvey Chantal Meek Amanda Rankin Katrin Kieseler	3: 16,870

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Hungary	10	1	3	14th
2	Germany	4th	2	5	11
3	Poland	2	3	5	10
4th	Romania	2	3	1	6th
5	Slovakia	2	-	-	2
6th	Canada	1	3	1	5
7th	Russia	1	2	2	5
8th	Australia	1	1	2	4th
9	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
10	Lithuania	1	-	1	2
11	New Zealand	1	-	-	1
	Sweden	1	-	-	1
13	Spain	-	5	2	7th
14th	Czech Republic	-	3	4th	7th
15th	Belarus	-	1	-	1
	Belgium	-	1	-	1
	Bulgaria	-	1	-	1
18th	Cuba	-	-	1	1
	Israel	-	-	1	1
	Uzbekistan	-	-	1	1
total		27	27	27	81

Web links

• Official website (English page)
• Results of the Canoe Racing World Championships (English page)
• World Canoe Federation