Canoe Racing World Championships 2007

36th Canoe Racing World Championships
venue	Duisburg
Participating Nations	90
Participating athletes	circa 1400
Disciplines	27
opening	August 8, 2007
End of competition	August 12, 2007
Patron	Horst Koehler

Canoe World Cup 2007 - view from the main stand

The 36th Canoe Racing World Championships took place from August 8th to 12th, 2007 in Duisburg . Competition venue was the regatta course Duisburg in Duisburg Sports Park . The event was organized by the International Canoe Association , and hosted by the German Canoe Association , which is also based in Duisburg.

With 1,400 athletes from 90 nations, the event was the largest canoe world championship to date . On four days of the competition medals were awarded in 27 disciplines of canoe racing: single kayak (K1), two-person kayak (K2) and four-person kayak (K4) for women and men as well as single-canoe (C1), two-person canoe (C2 ) and four-man Canadians (C4) of the men, over 200, 500 and 1000 meters respectively.

The World Championships were also a qualifying regatta for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

The competitions showed a clear dominance of the German and Hungarian teams, both of which won nine of the 27 decisions - no other country won more than one title. The German Canoe Association was able to use its home advantage and was in the medal table with 9/6/3 (G / S / B) ahead of Hungary (9/3/6) and Belarus (1/2/1).

The regatta course was sold out on the final days. The high number for canoeing was 17,400 spectators.

Shortly after the World Championships began, the International Canoeing Federation banned the Iranian team from the event. The reason given was that the team had not paid hotel bills and registration fees of 18,000 euros despite repeated requests.

For the first time there was a cultural program as part of the Canoe World Championships. Right next to the regatta course, the Canoe World Championship Plaza offered a colorful program with numerous musical acts, concerts by well-known German performers such as Jan Delay , Joy Denalane , MIA. and Silbermond as well as an open-air concert by the Duisburg Philharmonic . A children's program and numerous gastronomy pavilions rounded off the supporting program, which, according to the organizers, had a further 100,000 visitors.

Medalist

Men's

Canadians

discipline	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
1000 m C-1	Hungary Attila Vajda	4: 08.563	Slovakia Marián Ostrčil	4: 10.685	Spain David Cal Figueroa	4: 11.057
1000 m C-2	Germany Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	3: 46.627	Cuba Serguey Torres Karel Aguilar	3: 47.591	Poland Wojciech Tyszyński Paweł Baraszkiewicz	3: 48.103
1000 m C-4	Romania Andrei Cuculici Loredan Popa Silviu Simioncencu Iosif Chirilă	3: 23.325	Germany Erik Leue Stefan Holtz Thomas Lück Robert Nuck	3: 24.619	Hungary Márton Metka Róbert Mike Mátyás Sáfrán Gábor Balázs	3: 28.880
500 m C-1	Spain David Cal Figueroa	1: 47.187	Germany Andreas Dittmer	1: 47.383	People's Republic of China Yang Wenjun	1: 47.545
500 m C-2	Hungary György Kozmann György Kolonics	1: 40.501	Romania Iosif Chirilă Andrei Cuculici	1: 40.991	Germany Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	1: 41.501
500 m C-4	Hungary Gábor Horváth Péter Balázs Pál Sarudi Márton Joób	1: 31.265	Germany Robert Nuck Sebastian Brendel Thomas Lück Stefan Holtz	1: 31.497	Romania Loredan Popa Constantin Ciprian Popa Nicolae Flocea Florin Mironcic	1: 31.879
200 m C-1	Ukraine Yuriy Cheban	40,323	Russia Maxim Opalew	40,407	Lithuania Yevgeny Schuklin	40,539
200 m C-2	Russia Yevgeny Ignatov Ivan Shtyl	36,913	Germany Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	37.192	Lithuania Tomas Gadeikis Raimundas Labuckas	37,407
200 m C-4	Hungary Gábor Horváth Péter Balázs Pál Sarudi Márton Joób	34,297	Russia Yevgeny Dorochin Nikolai Lipkin Yevgeny Ignatov Ivan Shtyl	34,365	Belarus Dsmitryj Rabtschanka Dsmitryj Wajzischkin Kanstantsin Shcharbak Alyaksandr Waltschezki	34,533

kayak

Start in the men's K4 at the 2007 World Championships in Duisburg

discipline	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
1000 m K-1	United Kingdom Tim Brabants	3: 40.113	Canada Adam van Koeverden	3: 40.675	Norway Eirik Verås Larsen	3: 41.64
1000 m K-2	France Philippe Colin Cyrille Carré	3: 24.683	Poland Adam Seroczyński Mariusz Kujawski	3: 24.891	Hungary Zoltán Kammerer Gábor Kucsera	3: 26.579
1000 m K-4	Germany Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Marco Herszel Björn Goldschmidt	3: 04.369	Poland Marek Twardowski Tomasz Mendelski Paweł Baumann Adam Wysocki	3: 04.719	Slovakia Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	3: 05.625
500 m K-1	Canada Adam van Koeverden	1: 36.279	United Kingdom Tim Brabants	1: 36.607	Poland Marek Twardowski	1: 36.661
500 m K-2	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	1: 27.709	Belarus Raman Petruschenka Wadsim Machneu	1: 27.873	Hungary Zoltán Kammerer Gábor Kucsera	1: 29.527
500 m K-4	Slovakia Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	1: 20.045	Belarus Stanislau Strelchanka Dzianis Zhyhadla Siarhei Findziukevich Ruslan Bichan	1: 20.733	Hungary Attila Csamangó Gábor Bozsik Attila Boros Márton Sík	1: 21,651
200 m K-1	Germany Jonas Ems	35,275	Lithuania Vytautas Vaicikonis	35,683	Hungary Gergely Gyertyános	36,019
200 m K-2	Belarus Raman Petruschenka Wadsim Machneu	32,251	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	32,597	Serbia Ognjen Filipović Dragan Zorić	32,993
200 m K-4	Hungary Viktor Kadler István Beé Gergely Boros Balázs Babella	30,715	Serbia Ognjen Filipović Dragan Zorić Bora Sibinkic Milan Đenadić	30,735	Russia Stepan Shevchuk Anton Wassiljew Konstantin Vishnyakov Sergei Khovansky	30,913

Ladies

kayak

discipline	gold	time	silver	time	bronze	time
1000 m K-1	Hungary Katalin Kovács	4: 06.823	Germany Friederike Leue	4: 08.937	Sweden Sofia Paldanius	4: 10.901
1000 m K-2	Germany Gesine Ruge Judith Hörmann	3: 45.933	Poland Ewelina Wojnarowska Małgorzata Chojnacka	3: 47.142	Hungary Danuta Kozák Gabriella Szabó	3: 49.174
1000 m K-4	Hungary Tímea Paksy Dalma Benedek Krisztina Fazekas Alexandra Keresztesi	3: 13.625	People's Republic of China Feng Vang Ya Li-yang La Mei-yu Ying Ho	3: 13.971	Germany Gesine Ruge Friederike Leue Marina Schuck Judith Hörmann	3: 15.025
500 m K-1	Hungary Katalin Kovács	1: 48.663	Finland Anne Rikala	1: 49.255	Germany Katrin Wagner-Augustin	1: 49.399
500 m K-2	Germany Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt	1: 40.275	Hungary Tímea Paksy Dalma Benedek	1: 40.963	France Anne Laure Viard Marie Delattre	1: 41.719
500 m K-4	Germany Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth Katrin Wagner-Augustin Maren Knebel	1: 37.145	Hungary Tímea Paksy Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Dalma Benedek	1.37.951	Poland Monika Borowicz Aneta Konieczna Małgorzata Chojnacka Ewelina Wojnarowska	1: 38.103
200 m K-1	Hungary Natasa Janics	40,835	Finland Anne Rikala	41,069	Slovenia Špela Ponomarenko	41,243
200 m K-2	Germany Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt	37,339	Slovakia Ivana Kmeťová Martina Kohlová	37,921	Poland Marta Walczykiewicz Dorota Kuczkowska	38,697
200 m K-4	Germany Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth Katrin Wagner-Augustin Maren Knebel	35,459	Hungary Tímea Paksy Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Melinda Patyi	37,921	Serbia Miljana Knežević Antonija Panda Renata Kubik Marta Tibor	38,697

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	9	6th	3	18th
2	Hungary	9	3	6th	18th
3	Belarus	1	2	1	4th
	Russia	1	2	1	4th
	Slovakia	1	2	1	4th
6th	Romania	1	1	1	3
7th	Canada	1	1	0	2
8th	United Kingdom	1	1	0	2
	France	1	0	1	2
	Spain	1	0	1	2
11	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
12	Poland	0	3	4th	7th
13	Finland	0	2	0	2
14th	Lithuania	0	1	2	3
	Serbia	0	1	2	3
16	People's Republic of China	0	1	1	2
17th	Cuba	0	1	0	1
18th	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
total		27	27	27	81

Web links

• Official website (website offline, accessed January 10, 2013)
• World Canoe Federation
• German Canoe Association