# 2006 World Rowing Championships

The 2006 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 20 to 27 August 2006 at Dorney Lake, Dorney, Great Britain.

## Medal summary
### Men

Non-Olympic classes
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| M1x | New Zealand Mahé Drysdale | 6:35.40 | Germany Marcel Hacker | 6:35.49 | Czech Republic Ondřej Synek | 6:37.51 |
| M2x | France Jean-Baptiste Macquet Adrien Hardy | 6:07.60 | Slovenia Luka Špik Iztok Čop | 6:09.79 | Great Britain Matthew Wells Stephen Rowbotham | 6:10.95 |
| M2- | Australia Drew Ginn Duncan Free | 6:18.00 | New Zealand Nathan Twaddle George Bridgewater | 6:19.13 | Canada Kevin Light Malcolm Howard | 6:21.83 |
| M2+ | Serbia and Montenegro Nikola Stojić Jovan Popović Ivan Ninković | 6:51.27 | Italy Francesco Gabriele Dario Cerasola Andrea Riva | 6:54.39 | Canada Andrew Byrnes Derek O'Farrell Brian Price | 6:55.41 |
| M4x | Poland Konrad Wasielewski Marek Kolbowicz Michał Jeliński Adam Korol | 5:38.99 | Ukraine Volodymyr Pavlovskiy Dmytro Prokopenko Serhiy Biloushchenko Sergiy Gryn | 5:40.47 | Estonia Allar Raja Igor Kuzmin Tõnu Endrekson Andrei Jämsä | 5:41.23 |
| M4- | Great Britain Steve Williams Pete Reed Alex Partridge Andrew Triggs Hodge | 5:43.75 | Germany Gregor Hauffe Toni Seifert Urs Käufer Filip Adamski | 5:44.64 | Netherlands Geert Cirkel Jan-Willem Gabriëls Matthijs Vellenga Gijs Vermeulen | 5:45.54 |
| M4+ | Germany Jan-Martin Bröer Matthias Flach Philipp Naruhn Florian Eichner Martin Sauer | 6:05.77 | Canada Max Lang Chris Aylard Robert Gibson Will Crothers Stephen Cheng | 6:06.47 | New Zealand James Dallinger Steven Cottle Paul Gerritsen Dane Boswell Daniel Quigley | 6:07.37 |
| M8+ | Germany Jörg Dießner Sebastian Schulte Stephan Koltzk Philipp Stüer Jan Tebrügge Ulf Siemes Thorsten Engelmann Bernd Heidicker Peter Thiede | 5:21.85 | Italy Lorenzo Carboncini Niccolò Mornati Luca Agamennoni Alessio Sartori Mario Palmisano Dario Dentale Pierpaolo Frattini Carlo Mornati Gaetano Iannuzzi | 5:23.29 | United States Paul Daniels Matt Deakin Steven Coppola Kenneth Jurkowski Giuseppe Lanzone Daniel Walsh Beau Hoopman Marcus McElhenney Christopher Liwski | 5:24.14 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Great Britain Zac Purchase | 6:47.82 | Spain Juan Zunzunegui Guimerans | 6:50.14 | New Zealand Duncan Grant | 6:52.73 |
| LM2x | Denmark Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist Hansen | 6:11.42 | Italy Marcello Miani Elia Luini | 6:14.90 | France Fabrice Moreau Frédéric Dufour | 6:15.94 |
| LM2- | Germany Ole Rückbrodt Felix Otto | 6:28.41 | Spain Juan Manuel Florido Pellón Jesús González Álvarez | 6:30.17 | Italy Andrea Caianiello Salvatore Di Somma | 6:30.64 |
| LM4x | Italy Gardino Pellolio Daniele Gilardoni Luca Moncada Daniele Danesin | 5:53.83 | Germany Kai Anspach Martin Rückbrodt Knud Lange Christoph Schregel | 5:55.87 | France Bastien Tabourier Quentin Colard Maxime Goisset Rémi Di Girolamo | 5:57.42 |
| LM4- | China Huang Zhongming Wu Chongkui Lin Zhang Tian Jun | 5:49.43 | France Franck Solforosi Jérémy Pouge Jean-Christophe Bette Fabien Tilliet | 5:51.26 | Ireland Gearoid Towey Eugene Coakley Richard Archibald Paul Griffin | 5:51.35 |
| LM8+ | Italy Luigi Scala Giorgio Tuccinardi Livio La Padula Franco Sancassani Martino Goretti Michele Savrie Jiri Vlcek Fabrizio Gabriele Andrea Lenzi | 5:36.35 | Germany Marc Rippel Christian Scherhag Björn Steinfurth Alexander Bernhardt Jost Schömann-Finck Matthias Schömann-Finck Lutz Ackermann Matthias Veit Felix Erdmann | 5:38.48 | Poland Tomasz Kowalik Łukasz Siemion Mariusz Stańczuk Jarosław Bielaszewski Szymon Wiśniewski Maciej Madej Łukasz Pawłowski Cezary Mrozowicz Rafał Woźniak | 5:38.71 |

### Women

Non-Olympic classes
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| W1x | Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch | 7:11.02 | Czech Republic Miroslava Knapková | 7:15.02 | Sweden Frida Svensson | 7:18.35 |
| W2x | Australia Elizabeth Kell Brooke Pratley | 6:47.67 | Germany Britta Oppelt Susanne Schmidt | 6:47.95 | New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell | 6:48.82 |
| W2- | Canada Darcy Marquardt Jane Thornton | 6:54.68 | New Zealand Juliette Haigh Nicky Coles | 6:56.72 | Germany Nicole Zimmerman Elke Hipler | 6:57.11 |
| W4x | Great Britain Debbie Flood Sarah Winckless Frances Houghton Katherine Grainger | 6:12.50 | Australia Catriona Sens Sonia Mills Dana Faletic Sally Kehoe | 6:13.99 | Germany Christiane Huth Magdalena Schmude Jeannine Hennicke Stephanie Schiller | 6:14.67 |
| W4- | Australia Robyn Selby Smith Jo Lutz Amber Bradley Kate Hornsey | 6:25.35 | China Fei Yu Meng Li Tong Li Xiuhua Luo | 6:26.75 | United States Portia Johnson Erin Cafaro Esther Lofgren Rachel Jeffers | 6:28.66 |
| W8+ | United States Brett Sickler Megan Cooke Anna Goodale Lindsay Shoop Anna Mickelson Susan Francia Caroline Lind Caryn Davies Mary Whipple | 5:55.50 | Germany Nina Wengert Johanna Rönfeldt Christina Gerking Nadine Schmultzer Lenka Wech Maren Derlien Nicole Zimmerman Elke Hipler Annina Ruppel | 5:57.29 | Australia Jo Lutz Robyn Selby Smith Amber Bradley Kate Hornsey Emily Martin Sarah Cook Kim Crow Sarah Heard Lizzy Patrick | 6:00.29 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Netherlands Marit van Eupen | 7:32.26 | Germany Berit Carow | 7:33.61 | Spain Teresa Mas De Xaxars | 7:34.98 |
| LW2x | China Xu Dongxiang Yan Shimin | 6:55.12 | Australia Marguerite Houston Amber Halliday | 6:56.57 | Greece Chrysi Biskitzi Alexandra Tsiavou | 6:57.14 |
| LW4x | China Yu Hua Chen Haixia Fan Xuefei Liu Jing | 6:23.96 | Denmark Kirsten Jepsen Sine Christiansen Katrin Olsen Juliane Rasmussen | 6:28.16 | Great Britain Laura Ralston Lindsay Dick Hester Goodsell Sophie Hosking | 6:30.02 |

### Pararowing

The Pararowing classes were held over 1000 metres.
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| AM1x | Australia Dominic Monypenny | 5:28,87 | United States Ronald Harvey | 5:41,83 | Great Britain Shaun Sewell | 5:55,23 |
| AW1x | Great Britain Helene Raynsford | 6:14,87 | United States Patricia Rollison | 6:23,10 | Poland Martyna Snopek | 6:25,67 |
| TA2x | United States Scott Brown Angela Madsen | 4:20,50 | Poland Jolanta Pawlak Piotr Majka | | Canada Caitlin Renneson Wilfredo More Wilson | 4:30,86 |
| LTAMx4+ | Great Britain Naomi Riches Vicki Hansford Alastair McKean Alan Crowther Alan Sherman (cox) | 3:28,21 | Netherlands Joleen Hakker Trees Blankennagel Paul de Jong Martin Lauriks Tonia Harmsen (cox) | 3:32,62 | Canada Anthony Theriault Karen van Nest Meghan Montgomery John Moorcroft Emma Ferguson (cox) | 3:35,19 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Germany | 3 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| 2 | Australia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | China | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Italy | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | France | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Denmark | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | United States | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Belarus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Serbia and Montenegro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Spain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Estonia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (22 entries) | Totals (22 entries) | 23 | 23 | 23 | 69 |