# 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

Non-Olympic classes

#### Canoe

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| C-1 200 m | Nikolay Lipkin (RUS) | 39.789 | Valentin Demyanenko (UKR) | 40.137 | Jevgenij Cuklin (LTU) | 40.441 |
| C-1 500 m | Maksim Opalev (RUS) | 1:49.727 | Yuriy Cheban (UKR) | 1:50.459 | Wenjun Yang (CHN) | 1:50.603 |
| C-1 1000 m | Everardo Cristóbal (MEX) | 4:07.855 | Andreas Dittmer (GER) | 4:10.741 | Attila Vajda (HUN) | 4:11.347 |
| C-2 200 m | Russia Evgeny 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 Bezugliy | 3:46.769 |
| C-4 200 m | Czech Republic Petr Procházka Jiří Heller Jan Břečka Petr Fuksa | 34.052 | Belarus Konstantin Shcharbak Dzmitry Rabchanka Aleksandr Vauchetskiy Dzmitry Vaitsishkin | 34.132 | Hungary Pál Sarudi Márton Joób Gábor Horváth Péter Balázs | 34.336 |
| C-4 500 m | Belarus Dzmitry Rabchanka Dzmitry Vaitsishkin Konstantin Shcharbak Aleksandr Vauchetskiy | 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 Aliaksandr Zhukouski Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Andrei Bahdanovich | 3:28.880 |

#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| K-1 200 m | Ronald Rauhe (GER) | 35.200 | Carlos Pérez (ESP) | 35.396 | Mykola Kremer (UKR) | 35.516 |
| K-1 500 m | Marek Twardowski (POL) | 1:38.596 | Anton Ryakhov (RUS) | 1:38.698 | Lutz Altepost (GER) | 1:39.832 |
| K-1 1000 m | Markus Oscarsson (SWE) | 3:39.359 | Tim Brabants (GBR) | 3:39.419 | Ben Fouhy (NZL) | 3:39.443 |
| K-2 200 m | Germany Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter | 32.660 | Poland Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki | 32.804 | Serbia Dragan Zorić Ognjen Filipović | 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 Đenadić Ognjen Filipović Bora Sibinkić Dragan Zorić | 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 Przemysław 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 Vadzim Makhneu Dziamyan Turchyn Aleksey Abalmasov Raman Piatrushenka | 2:57.897 |

### Women's

Non-Olympic classes

#### Kayak

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| K-1 200 m | Tímea Paksy (HUN) | 40.203 | Špela Ponomarenko (SLO) | 40.947 | Karen Furneaux (CAN) | 41.071 |
| K-1 500 m | Dalma Benedek (HUN) | 1:52.287 | Josefa Idem (ITA) | 1:53.265 | Zhong Hongyan (CHN) | 1:53.307 |
| K-1 1000 m | Dalma Benedek (HUN) | 4:04.683 | Katrin Wagner-Augustin (GER) | 4:06.933 | Michaela Mrůzková (CZE) | 4:07.293 |
| K-2 200 m | Hungary Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić | 37.423 | Germany Katrin Wagner-Augustin Fanny Fischer | 37.919 | Finland Jenni Honkanen Anne Rikala | 37.983 |
| K-2 500 m | Hungary Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić | 1:41.998 | Czech Republic Jana Blahová Michaela Mrůzková | 1:43.408 | Germany Fanny Fischer Gesine Ruge | 1:43.432 |
| K-2 1000 m | Hungary Katalin Kovács Nataša Janić | 3:48.982 | 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 Nataša Janić 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 (HUN) Krisztina Fazekas Tímea Paksy Nataša Janić Katalin Kovács | 1:31.763 | Germany (GER) Katrin Wagner-Augustin Carolin Leonhardt Conny Waßmuth Judith Hörmann | 1:31.817 | Romania (ROM) Mariana Ciobanu Lidia Talpă Florica Vulpeş Alina Platon | 1:34.535 |
| K-4 1000 m | Hungary (HUN) Nataša Janić Alexandra Keresztesi Katalin Kovács Tímea Paksy | 3:23.488 | Germany (GER) Carolin Leonhardt Miriam Frenken Tanja Schuck Silke Hörmann | 3:24.106 | China (CHN) Yu Lamei Wang Feng Zhang Jinmei He Jing | 3:25.012 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Hungary | 12 | 2 | 4 | 18 |
| 2 | Germany | 4 | 9 | 2 | 15 |
| 3 | Russia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Poland | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Belarus | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Serbia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Slovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Canada | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | China | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 14 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (21 entries) | Totals (21 entries) | 27 | 27 | 27 | 81 |