Canoe Racing World Championships 2006

35th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Szeged
Competitions	27
opening	August 17, 2006
End of competition	August 20, 2006

The 35th Canoe Racing World Championships took place from August 17th to 20th, 2006 in the Hungarian city ​​of Szeged . The World Championships were organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). After 1998, Szeged hosted the Canoe Racing World Championships for the second time .

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.

The venue was an artificial regatta course 2,400 m long and 122 m wide in the west of Szeged.

Highlights

The host country Hungary won 12 of the 27 gold medals. Germany and Russia each won 4 gold medals.

The Europeans were shocked by the victory of Mexican Everardo Cristóbal in the C-1-1000m final. This victory earned Mexico its first gold medal.

Results

Men

Canadians

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
C-1 200 m	Russia Nikolai Lipkin	39,789	Ukraine Valentin Demjanenko	40,137	Lithuania Jevgenij Cuklin	40,441
C-1 500 m	Russia Maxim Opalew	1: 49.727	Ukraine Yuriy Cheban	1: 50.459	People's Republic of China Wenjun Yang	1: 50.603
C-1 1000 m	Mexico Everardo Cristóbal	4: 07.855	Germany Andreas Dittmer	4: 10.741	Hungary Attila Vajda	4: 11.347
C-2 200 m	Russia Yevgeny Ignatov Ivan Shtyl	36,494	Germany Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	36,978	Lithuania Raimundas Labuckas Tomas Gadelkis	37,058
C-2 500 m	Russia Alexander Kostoglod Sergey Ulegin	1: 41,520	Germany Stefan Holtz Robert Nuck	1: 42.792	Hungary György Kozmann György Kolonics	1: 42.942
C-2 1000 m	Hungary György Kozmann György Kolonics	3: 43.781	Canada Attila Buday Tamas Buday Jr.	3: 46.151	Ukraine Maksym Prokopenko Sergiy Referenzliy	3: 46.769
C-4 200 m	Czech Republic Petr Procházka Jiří Heller Jan Břečka Petr Fuksa	34,052	Belarus Konstantin Shcharbak Dzmitryj Rabchanka Aljaksandr Waltschezki Dzmitryj Vajzischkin	34,132	Hungary Pál Sarudi Márton Joób Gábor Horváth Péter Balázs	34,336
C-4 500 m	Belarus Dzmitryj Rabchanka Dzmitryj Vajzischkin Konstantin Shcharbak Aljaksandr Waltschezki	1: 31.820	Poland Łukasz Woszczyński Paweł Baraszkiewicz Marcin Grzybowski Pawel Skowronski	1: 32.360	Romania Gabriel Talpă Florin Mironcic Loredan Popa Silviu Simioncencu	1: 33.710
C-4 1000 m	Germany Robert Nuck Stephan Breuing Stefan Holtz Thomas Lück	3: 27.422	Canada Andrew Russell Thomas Hall Kyle Jeffery Dmitri Joukovski	3: 28.394	Belarus Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk Aljaksandr Schukouski Aleksandr Bagdanovich Andrey Bagdanovich	3: 28.880

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 200 m	Germany Ronald Rauhe	35,200	Spain Carlos Pérez	35,396	Ukraine Mykola Kremer	35,516
K-1 500 m	Poland Marek Twardowski	1: 38.596	Russia Anton Ryachov	1: 38.698	Germany Lutz Altepost	1: 39.832
K-1 1000 m	Sweden Markus Oscarsson	3: 39.359	United Kingdom Tim Brabants	3: 39.419	New Zealand Ben Fouhy	3: 39.443
K-2 200 m	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	32,660	Poland Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	32,804	Serbia Dragan Zoric Ognjen Filipovic	32,912
K-2 500 m	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	1: 27.791	Canada Richard Dessureault-Dober Andrew Willows	1: 28.631	Hungary Gábor Kucsera Zoltán Kammerer	1: 29.063
K-2 1000 m	Hungary Gábor Kucsera Zoltán Kammerer	3: 17.791	Germany Rupert Wagner Andreas Ihle	3: 19.075	Poland Tomasz Górski Adam Seroczyński	3: 19.837
K-4 200 m	Serbia Milan Djenadić Ognjen Filipovic Bora Sibinkic Dragan Zoric	29,965	Hungary Viktor Kadler Gergely Gyertyános Balázs Babella István Beé	30,033	Russia Sergey Kosilov Konstantin Vishnyakov Stephan Shevchuk Sergey Khovanskiy	30,401
K-4 500 m	Slovakia Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Róbert Erban Erik Vlček	1: 20.606	Hungary Attila Csamangó Gábor Bozsik Attila Boros Márton Sik	1: 21.188	Poland Adam Wysocki Paweł Baumann Przmyslaw Gawrych Tomasz Mendelski	1: 21.536
K-4 1000 m	Hungary Ákos Vereckei Roland Kökény Lajos Gyökös Gábor Horváth	2: 56.523	Poland Marek Twardowski Tomasz Mendelski Paweł Baumann Adam Wysocki	2: 57.873	Belarus Wadsim Machneu Dziamyan Turchyn Aleksey Abalmasov Raman Petruschenka	2: 57.897

Women

kayak

Event	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
K-1 200 m	Hungary Tímea Paksy	40.203	Slovenia Špela Ponomarenko	40,947	Canada Karen Furneaux	41,071
K-1 500 m	Hungary Dalma Benedek	1: 52.287	Italy Josefa Idem	1: 53.265	People's Republic of China Zhong Hongyan	1: 53.307
K-1 1000 m	Hungary Dalma Benedek	4: 04.683	Germany Katrin Wagner-Augustin	4: 06.933	Czech Republic Michala Mruzková	4: 07.293
K-2 200 m	Hungary Katalin Kovács Natasa Janics	37,423	Germany Katrin Wagner-Augustin Fanny Fischer	37,919	Finland Jenni Honkanen Anne Rikala	37,983
K-2 500 m	Hungary Katalin Kovács Natasa Janics	1: 41.998	Czech Republic Jana Bláhová Michala Mruzková	1: 43.408	Germany Fanny Fischer Gesine Ruge	1: 43.432
K-2 1000 m	Hungary Katalin Kovács Natasa Janics	3: 48.982	People's Republic of China Zhu Minyuan Yang Yali	3: 49.756	Belarus Hanna Pushkova-Areshka Natalya Bandarenko	3: 51.664
K-4 200 m	Hungary Tímea Paksy Melinda Patyi Natasa Janics Katalin Kovács	34,650	Germany Judith Hörmann Nicole Reinhardt Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth	35,090	Sweden Josefin Nordlöw Sofia Paldanius Karin Johansson Anna Karlsson	36,046
K-4 500 m	Hungary Krisztina Fazekas Tímea Paksy Natasa Janics Katalin Kovács	1: 31.763	Germany Katrin Wagner-Augustin Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth Judith Hörmann	1: 31.817	Romania Mariana Ciobanu Lidia Talpă Florica Vulpeş Alina Platon	1: 34.535
K-4 1000 m	Hungary Natasa Janics Alexandra Keresztesi Katalin Kovács Tímea Paksy	3: 23.488	Germany Carolin Leonhardt Miriam Frenken Tanja Schuck Silke Hörmann	3: 24.106	People's Republic of China Yu Lamei Wang Feng Zhang Jinmei He Jing	3: 25.012

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Hungary	12	2	4th	18th
2	Germany	4th	9	2	15th
3	Russia	4th	1	1	6th
4th	Poland	1	3	2	6th
5	Belarus	1	1	3	5
6th	Czech Republic	1	1	1	3
7th	Serbia	1	-	1	2
	Sweden	1	-	1	2
9	Mexico	1	-	-	1
	Slovakia	1	-	-	1
11	Canada	-	3	1	4th
12	Ukraine	-	2	2	4th
13	People's Republic of China	-	1	3	4th
14th	Spain	-	1	-	1
	Italy	-	1	-	1
	Slovenia	-	1	-	1
	United Kingdom	-	1	-	1
18th	Lithuania	-	-	2	2
	Romania	-	-	2	2
20th	Finland	-	-	1	1
	New Zealand	-	-	1	1
total		27	27	27	81

Web links

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