The 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Szeged, Hungary, from August 17 to 20 2006. This was the second time the 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 C-1 200 m 39.789 40.137 40.441C-1 500 m 1:49.727 1:50.459 1:50.603C-1 1000 m 4:07.855 4:10.741 4:11.347C-2 200 m Evgeny IgnatovIvan Shtyl 36.494 Christian GilleTomasz Wylenzek 36.978 Raimundas LabuckasTomas Gadelkis 37.058C-2 500 m Alexander KostoglodSergey Ulegin 1:41.520 Stefan HoltzRobert Nuck 1:42.792 György KozmannGyörgy Kolonics 1:42.942C-2 1000 m György KozmannGyörgy Kolonics 3:43.781 Attila BudayTamas Buday Jr. 3:46.151 Maksym ProkopenkoSergiy Bezugliy 3:46.769C-4 200 m Petr ProcházkaJiří HellerJan BřečkaPetr Fuksa 34.052 Konstantin ShcharbakDzmitry RabchankaAleksandr VauchetskiyDzmitry Vaitsishkin 34.132 Pál SarudiMárton JoóbGábor HorváthPéter Balázs 34.336C-4 500 m Dzmitry RabchankaDzmitry VaitsishkinKonstantin ShcharbakAleksandr Vauchetskiy 1:31.820 Łukasz WoszczyńskiPaweł BaraszkiewiczMarcin GrzybowskiPawel Skowronski 1:32.360 Gabriel TalpăFlorin MironcicLoredan PopaSilviu Simioncencu 1:33.710C-4 1000 m Robert NuckStephan BreuingStefan HoltzThomas Lück 3:27.422 Andrew RussellThomas HallKyle JefferyDmitri Joukovski 3:28.394 Aliaksandr KurliandchykAliaksandr ZhukouskiAliaksandr BahdanovichAndrei Bahdanovich 3:28.880

Kayak K-1 200 m 35.200 35.396 35.516K-1 500 m 1:38.596 1:38.698 1:39.832K-1 1000 m 3:39.359 3:39.419 3:39.443K-2 200 m Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter 32.660 Marek TwardowskiAdam Wysocki 32.804 Dragan ZorićOgnjen Filipović 32.912K-2 500 m Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter 1:27.791 Richard Dessureault-DoberAndrew Willows 1:28.631 Gábor KucseraZoltán Kammerer 1:29.063K-2 1000 m Gábor KucseraZoltán Kammerer 3:17.791 Rupert WagnerAndreas Ihle 3:19.075 Tomasz GórskiAdam Seroczyński 3:19.837K-4 200 m Milan ĐenadićOgnjen FilipovićBora SibinkićDragan Zorić 29.965 Viktor KadlerGergely GyertyánosBalázs BabellaIstván Beé 30.033 Sergey KosilovKonstantin VishnyakovStephan ShevchukSergey Khovanskiy 30.401K-4 500 m Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferRóbert ErbanErik Vlček 1:20.606 Attila CsamangóGábor BozsikAttila BorosMárton Sik 1:21.188 Adam WysockiPaweł BaumannPrzemysław GawrychTomasz Mendelski 1:21.536K-4 1000 m Ákos VereckeiRoland KökényLajos GyökösGábor Horváth 2:56.523 Marek TwardowskiTomasz MendelskiPaweł BaumannAdam Wysocki 2:57.873 Vadzim MakhneuDziamyan TurchynAleksey AbalmasovRaman Piatrushenka 2:57.897

Women's Non-Olympic classes

Kayak K-1 200 m 40.203 40.947 41.071K-1 500 m 1:52.287 1:53.265 1:53.307K-1 1000 m 4:04.683 4:06.933 4:07.293K-2 200 m Katalin KovácsNataša Janić 37.423 Katrin Wagner-AugustinFanny Fischer 37.919 Jenni HonkanenAnne Rikala 37.983K-2 500 m Katalin KovácsNataša Janić 1:41.998 Jana BlahováMichaela Mrůzková 1:43.408 Fanny FischerGesine Ruge 1:43.432K-2 1000 m Katalin KovácsNataša Janić 3:48.982 Zhu MinyuanYang Yali 3:49.756 Hanna Pushkova-AreshkaNatalya Bandarenko 3:51.664K-4 200 m Tímea PaksyMelinda PatyiNataša JanićKatalin Kovács 34.650 Judith HörmannNicole ReinhardtCarolin LeonhardtConny Waßmuth 35.090 Josefin NordlöwSofia PaldaniusKarin JohanssonAnna Karlsson 36.046K-4 500 m Krisztina FazekasTímea PaksyNataša JanićKatalin Kovács 1:31.763 Katrin Wagner-AugustinCarolin LeonhardtConny WaßmuthJudith Hörmann 1:31.817 Mariana CiobanuLidia TalpăFlorica VulpeşAlina Platon 1:34.535K-4 1000 m Nataša JanićAlexandra KeresztesiKatalin KovácsTímea Paksy 3:23.488 Carolin LeonhardtMiriam FrenkenTanja SchuckSilke Hörmann 3:24.106 Yu LameiWang FengZhang JinmeiHe Jing 3:25.012

Medal table

References

Results of Flatwater Racing World Championships International Canoe Federation