The 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Poznań, Poland at Lake Malta. The Polish city had hosted the event previously in 1990.
The men's competition consisted of nine Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Women competed in nine events, all kayak. The women's K-4 1000 m event was added at these championships, the last change to the program until a new program was approved for the 2009 event at the 2008 ICF Congress in Rome.
This was the 31st championships in canoe sprint.
Medal summary Men's Non-Olympic classes
Canoe C-1 200 m C-1 500 m C-1 1000 m C-2 200 m Paweł BaraszkiewiczDaniel Jędraszko Ionel AverianMikhail Vartolemei Ibrahim RojasLeobaldo PereiraC-2 500 m Ibrahim RojasLeobaldo Pereira Daniel JędraszkoPaweł Baraszkiewicz Mitică PricopFlorin PopescuC-2 1000 m Marcin KobierskiMichał Śliwiński José Alfredo BeaDavid Mascató Ibrahim RojasLeobaldo PereiraC-4 200 m György ZalaGyörgy KozmannBéla BeliczaGábor Ivan Petr NetušilJan BřečkaPetr FuksaKarel Kožíšek Aleksandr KovalyovAleksandr KostoglodVladislav PolozounovMaksim OpalevC-4 500 m Iosif AnisimFlorin PopescuMikhail VartolemeiIonel Averian György ZalaGyörgy KozmannBéla BeliczaGábor Ivan Roman KrugylakovKonstantin FomichevVladimir LadoshaAleksey VolkonskiyC-4 1000 m György ZalaGyörgy KozmannBéla BeliczaGábor Ivan Ivan SkovorodkinAleksandr BagdanovichAleksandr KurlandchikAleksandr Zhukovskiy Iosif AnisimChirac MarcovIonel AverianMikhail Vartolemei
Kayak K-1 200 m K-1 500 m K-1 1000 m K-2 200 m Alvydas DuonėlaEgidijus Balčiūnas Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter Mykola ZaichenkovMykhaylo LuchnikK-2 500 m Ronald RauheTim Wieskötter Alvydas DuonėlaEgidijus Balčiūnas Markus OscarssonHenrik NilssonK-2 1000 m Eirik Verås LarsenNils Fjeldheim Krisztián BártfaiKrisztián Veréb Marc WestphalenMarco HerszelK-4 200 m Gyula KajnerVince FehérváriIstván BeéRóbert Hegedűs Roman ZarubinAleksandr IvanikDenys TourtchenkovAndrey Tissin Oleksiy SlivinskiyMykola ZaichenkovMykhaylo LuchnikBoris MarkinK-4 500 m Roman ZarubinAleksandr IvanikDenys TourtchenkovAndrey Tissin Vasile CuruzanMarian BabanGeza MagyarRomică Șerban Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj BačaK-4 1000 m Andreas IhleMark ZabelBjörn BachStefan Ulm Zoltán KammererBotond StorczRoland KökényGábor Horváth Roman ZarubinAleksandr IvanikDenys TourtchenkovOleg Gorobiy
Women's Non-Olympic classes
Kayak K-1 200 m K-1 500 m K-1 1000 m K-2 200 m Beatriz ManchónSonia Molanes Beata SokołowskaAneta Pastuszka Kinga DékányErzsébet ViskiK-2 500 m Szilvia SzabóKinga Bóta Beata SokołowskaAneta Pastuszka Sonia MolanesBeatriz ManchónK-2 1000 m Manuela MuckeNadine Opgen-Rhein Katrin BorchertKatrin Kieseler Beatriz ManchónSonia MolanesK-4 200 m Kinga DékányKrisztina FazekasErzsébet ViskiKatalin Kovács Maria Teresa PortelaMaria GarciaBelen SánchezAna María Penas Karolina SadalskaAneta PastuszkaDorota KuczkowskaJoanna SkowrońK-4 500 m Katalin KovácsSzilvia SzabóKinga BótaErzsébet Viski Manuela MuckeKatrin WagnerAnett SchuckNadine Opgen-Rhein Maria GarciaBelen SánchezMaria Teresa PortelaAna María PenasK-4 1000 m Kinga DékánySzilvia SzabóErzsébet ViskiKinga Bóta Karolina SadalskaAneta BiałkowskaDorota KuczkowskaJoanna Skowroń Hanna BalabanovaNataliya FeklisovaInna OsypenkoTetyana Semykina
Medal table
References ICF 2008 Congress report from Rome. – accessed November 30, 2008. ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007. ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.