The 2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Duisburg, Germany on 9–12 August 2007 for the record-tying fourth time. The German city had hosted the championships previously in 1979, 1987, and 1995. It tied Duisburg with Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia) who hosted in 1971, 1975, 1978, and 1982.
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 36th championships in canoe sprint.
Highlights Both German and Hungarian paddlers won 9 gold medals. With 6 silver Germany topped the medal table, while Hungarians finished first on the point table.
In the women's events the two nations shared all world titles. Since Natasa Janics left the legendary pair with Katalin Kovács all K-2 races were ruled by the German paddlers. However, Katalin Kovács won K-1 1000 m and 500 m, and gained two silvers in the K-4 events, while former partner Natasa Janics won the individual over 200 m. Hungarian team won the K-4 on 1000 m, and Germans the 500 m and 200 m.
In the men's races, the C-2 500 m final saw György Kolonics win his fifteenth and final championship title which is an outstanding record in the history of canoe sprint. Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter of Germany won their sixth K-2 500 m title in a row.
Medal summary
Men's Non-Olympic classes
Canoe C-1 200 m 40.323 40.407 40.539C-1 500 m 1:47.187 1:47.383 1:47.545C-1 1000 m 4:08.563 4:10.685 4:11.057C-2 200 m Evgeny IgnatovIvan Shtyl 36.913 Christian GilleTomasz Wylenzek 37.192 Tomas GadeikisRaimundas Labuckas 37.407C-2 500 m György KozmannGyörgy Kolonics 1:40.501 Iosif ChirilăAndrei Cuculici 1:40.991 Christian GilleTomasz Wylenzek 1:41.501C-2 1000 m Christian GilleTomasz Wylenzek 3:46.627 Serguey TorresKarel Aguilar 3:47.591 Wojciech TyszyńskiPaweł Baraszkiewicz 3:48.103C-4 200 m Péter BalázsGábor HorváthMárton JoóbPál Sarudi 34.297 Evgeny DorokhinNikolay LipkinEvgeny IgnatovIvan Shtyl 34.365 Dzmitry RabchankaDzmitry VaitsishkinKanstantsin ShcharbakAliaksandr Vauchetski 34.533C-4 500 m Péter BalázsGábor HorváthMárton JoóbPál Sarudi 1:31.265 Robert NuckSebastian BrendelThomas LückStefan Holtz 1:31.497 Loredan PopaCiprian PopaNicolae FloceaFlorin Mironcic 1:31.879C-4 1000 m Andrei CuculiciLoredan PopaSilviu SimioncencuIosif Chirilă 3:23.325 Erik LeueStefan HoltzThomas LückRobert Nuck 3:24.619 Márton MetkaRóbert MikeMátyás SáfránGábor Balázs 3:28.880
Kayak K-1 200 m 35.275 35.683 36.019K-1 500 m 1:36.279 1:36.607 1:36.661K-1 1000 m 3:40.113 3:40.675 3:41.64K-2 200 m Raman PiatrushenkaVadzim Makhneu 32.251 Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter 32.597 Ognjen FilipovićDragan Zorić 32.993K-2 500 m Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter 1:27.709 Raman PiatrushenkaVadzim Makhneu 1:27.873 Zoltán KammererGábor Kucsera 1:29.527K-2 1000 m Philippe ColinCyrille Carré 3:24.683 Adam SeroczyńskiMariusz Kujawski 3:24.891 Zoltán KammererGábor Kucsera 3:26.579K-4 200 m Viktor KadlerIstván BeéGergely BorosBalázs Babella 30.715 Ognjen FilipovićDragan ZorićBora SibinkićMilan Đenadić 30.735 Stepan ShevchukAnton VasilevKonstantin VishnyakovSergey Khovanskiy 30.913K-4 500 m Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Tarr 1:20.045 Stanislau StrelchankaDzianis ZhyhadlaSiarhei FindziukevichRuslan Bichan 1:20.733 Márton SíkAttila BorosAttila CsamangóGábor Bozsik 1:21.651K-4 1000 m Lutz AltepostNorman BröcklMarco HerszelBjörn Goldschmidt 3:04.369 Marek TwardowskiTomasz MendelskiPaweł BaumannAdam Wysocki 3:04.719 Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Tarr 3:05.625
Women's Non-Olympic classes
Kayak K-1 200 m 40.835 41.069 41.243K-1 500 m 1:48.663 1:49.255 1:49.399K-1 1000 m 4:06.823 4:08.937 4:10.901K-2 200 m Fanny FischerNicole Reinhardt 37.339 Ivana KmeťováMartina Kohlová 37.921 Marta WalczykiewiczDorota Kuczkowska 38.697K-2 500 m Fanny FischerNicole Reinhardt 1:40.275 Tímea PaksyDalma Benedek 1:40.963 Anne Laure ViardMarie Delattre 1:41.719K-2 1000 m Gesine RugeJudith Hörmann 3:45.933 Ewelina WojnarowskaMałgorzata Chojnacka 3:47.142 Danuta KozákGabriella Szabó 3:49.174K-4 200 m Carolin LeonhardtConny WaßmuthKatrin Wagner-AugustinMaren Knebel 35.459 Tímea PaksyKatalin KovácsKrisztina FazekasMelinda Patyi 37.921 Miljana KnezevicAntonija PandaRenata KubikMarta Tibor 38.697K-4 500 m Carolin LeonhardtConny WaßmuthKatrin Wagner-AugustinMaren Knebel 1:37.145 Tímea PaksyKatalin KovácsKrisztina FazekasDalma Benedek 1.37.951 Monika BorowiczAneta KoniecznaMałgorzata ChojnackaEwelina Wojnarowska 1:38.103K-4 1000 m Tímea PaksyKrisztina FazekasAlexandra KeresztesiDalma Benedek 3:13.625 Wang FengYang YaliYu LameiHe Jing (canoeist) 3:13.971 Gesine RugeFriedericke LeueMarina SchmuckJudith Hörmann 3:15.025
Medal table
References International Canoe Federation