2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 19–22 August 2010 in Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, on Lake Malta
Lake Malta
Lake Malta is an artificial lake in Poznań, Poland. It was formed in 1952 as a result of the damming of the Cybina River. It is about 2.2 km long, which makes the lake the biggest man-made lake of the city. The water is 3.1 m deep on average with a maximum about 5 m...

. This is the third time that the Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 city will host the championships, having done so previously in 1990
1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Poznań, Poland on Lake Malta.The men's competition consisted of eight Canadian and nine kayak events. Five events were held for the women, all in kayak....

 and 2001
2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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....

. Paracanoe (formerly paddleability) and the women's C-1 200 m events that were exhibition events at the previous world championships
2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 2009 International Canoe Federation Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 12–16 August 2009 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Lake Banook. The Canadian city was selected to host the championships in October 2003 after having done so previously in 1997...

 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth founded in 1750, is a community and planning area of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes after the large number of lakes located in the city.On April 1, 1996, the provincial...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, became official events at these championships.

Germany and Hungary won the most medals at the championships with twelve each though the Hungarians won six golds, the most of the championships, compared to the Germans' five golds. Brazil, Japan and Tahiti won their first ever championship medals. Ronald Rauhe of Germany became the winningest medalist in men's kayak with his 21st career medal, earning that in a K-1 200 m silver. Rauhe eclipsed that record he had tied at the previous championships with fellow German Torsten Gutsche. In women's kayak, Hungary's Katalin Kovács tied Germany's Birgit Fischer for most career medals with 38 with three medals earned though Kovács 29th gold passed Fischer's 28 career golds. For the first time since 1975, a tie occurred in the medals only this time it was for the bronze in the C-1 200 m event between Canada's Richard Dalton and Ukraine's Yuriy Cheban. Canada also won the first gold medal in women's canoe with Laurence Vincent-Lapointe winning gold. Paracanoe's big winners were Brazil and Canada with three medals each.

Explanation of events

Canoe sprint
Canoe racing
This article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation ....

 competitions are broken up into Canadian canoe
Canoe
A canoe or Canadian canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes are usually pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be decked over A canoe (North American English) or Canadian...

 (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in kayak
Kayak
A kayak is a small, relatively narrow, human-powered boat primarily designed to be manually propelled by means of a double blade paddle.The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler...

s (K), a closed canoe with a double-bladed paddle. Each canoe or kayak can hold one person (1), two people (2), or four people (4). For each of the specific canoes or kayaks, such as a K-1 (kayak single), the competition distances can be 200 metres (656.2 ft), 500 metres (1,640.4 ft), or 1000 metres (3,280.8 ft) long. When a competition is listed as a C-2 500 m event as an example, it means two people are in a canoe competing at a 500 metres (1,640.4 ft) distance.

Preliminaries to the event

Poznań was awarded the 2010 championships at an ICF Board of Directors meeting in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, on 23 October 2003.

Event format changes

At the 2009 ICF Board of Directors meeting in Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor is an affluent suburban town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family....

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, women's C-1 200 m was added for these championships while women's C-2 500 m will remain a demonstration event like it had the previous championships. The relay events, started at the previous championships, and 5000 m events, included for the first time since their discontinuation after the 1993 championships
1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark for the third time. The Danish city had hosted the event previously in 1950 and 1970....

 in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, will also occur. Paracanoe (formerly referred to as paddleability) will have four events covering three classicfications with LTA (Legs, Trunk, and Arms), TA (Trunk and Arms), and A (Arms only). The events were confirmed following successes at the previous world championships on 18 December 2009. The schedule for the championships was released on 10 June 2010.

Visit from the ICF

During the week of 1 March 2010, the ICF visited Lake Malta
Lake Malta
Lake Malta is an artificial lake in Poznań, Poland. It was formed in 1952 as a result of the damming of the Cybina River. It is about 2.2 km long, which makes the lake the biggest man-made lake of the city. The water is 3.1 m deep on average with a maximum about 5 m...

 to meet with the Host Organizing Committee (HOC) to see how event preparations were progressing. Some items discussed were broadcasting, event promotion, athlete services, and communications. 2.5 hours of live television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 coverage on a daily basis is planned for the semifinal and final event as provided in the contract to meet the needs of the Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an market. 61 million people watched last year's championships in Canada. ICF Secretary General Simon Toulson expressed his support of the HOC and his hope that the 2010 championships will be a good one.

Event progress

After opening ceremonies on the 18th, the first round of events took place on the 19th with 1000 m events completing their heats and the semifinals. Paracanoe heats were suspended later that day to high winds and weather conditions.

Participating nations

75 nations were listed on the preliminary entry list. The numbers in parentheses shown are for those who competed for each respective nation.
(1) (5) (6) (3) (23) (7) (2) (24) (5) (13) (12) (35) (6) (23) (1) (1) (5) (1) (25) (8) (2) (7) (6) (17) (33) (28) (4) (40) (11) (2) (3) (29) (18) (12) (8) (11) (14) (3) (6) (9) (1) (8) (12) (7) (3) (37) (13) (18) (42) (1) (3) (1) (15) (7) (16) (7) (15) (10) (40) (16) (3) (1) (2) (5) (7) (3) (37) (17) (12) (4)


Russia had the most overall attendees with 42.

The media guide listed 75 nations as participating, but four nations listed did not compete (India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

, Malaysia).

Canoe

Russia won the most medals with four. The people with the most medals were two with Ivan Shtyl (Russia), Alexandru Dumitrescu (Romania), Victo Mihalachi (Romania), Vadim Menkov (Uzbeskistan), Dzianis Harasha (Belarus), Ronald Verch (Germany), and Paweł Baraszkiewicz (Poland). For the second time in the history of the championships, a tie occurred for a medal in the C-1 200 m bronze between Canada's Richard Dalton and Ukraine's Yuriy Cheban. The first occurred thirty-five years earlier
1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the second time, having hosted them in 1971. This also equaled the most times a city had done so with Copenhagen, Denmark ....

, in the K-1 1000 m gold between Italy's Oreste Perri
Oreste Perri
Oreste Perri is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.Perri was born in Castelverde, in the province of Cremona...

 and Poland's Grzegorz Śledziewski
Grzegorz Śledziewski
Grzegorz Śledziewski is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. He won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds , five silvers , and seven...

.
Event Heats Semifinals Final Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
C-1 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August 39.161 39.729
39.953
C-1 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August 1:47.701 1:48.317 1:48.457
C-1 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August 3:51.721 3:51.921 3:53.837
C-1 5000 m NA NA 21 August 23:24.342 23:26.398 23:38.070
C-1 4 x 200 m relay 22 August NA 22 August
Ivan Shtyl
Ivan Shtyl
Ivan Shtyl is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since 2004. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds and four silvers .-References:***...


Mikhail Pavlov
Mikhail Pavlov (canoeist)
Mikhail Pavlov is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 4 x 200 m relay at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Nikolay Lipkin
Nikolay Lipkin
Nikolay Lipkin is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since 2003.In 2003 he was a member of the Russia Canadian canoe C-4 500m crew that won the junior world championships in Komatsu, Japan. He also claimed two individual medals - silver over 500m and bronze in the 1000 m...


Evgeny Ignatov
Evgeny Ignatov
Evgeny Ignatov is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since 2004...

2:48.143
Oleksandr Maksymchuk
Oleksandr Maksymchuk
Oleksandr Maksymchuk is an Ukrainian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 4 x 200 m relay at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Yuriy Cheban
Yuriy Cheban
Yuriy Cheban is a Soviet-born, Ukrainian sprint canoer who has been competing since 2003. He was born in Mykolaiv....


Stanislav Shymansky
Stanislav Shymansky
Stanislav Shymansky is an Ukrainian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 4 x 200 m relay at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Vyacheslav Tsekhosh
Vyacheslav Tsekhosh
Vyacheslav Tsekhosh is an Ukrainian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 4 x 200 m relay at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....

 
2:50.675
Adam Ginter
Adam Ginter
Adam Ginter is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the early first decade of the 21st century. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold , a silver , and four bronzes .-References:**...


Roman Rynkiewicz
Mariusz Kruk
Mariusz Kruk
Mariusz Kruk is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the C-1 4 x 200 m relay at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* – accessed 22 August 2010....


Paweł Baraszkiewicz 
2:51.059
C-2 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August
Raimundas Labuckas
Raimundas Labuckas
Raimundas Labuckas is a Lithuanian sprint canoer who has competed since 2005. He won four medals in the C-2 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and two bronzes ....


Tomas Gadeikis
Tomas Gadeikis
Tomas Gadeikis is a Lithuanian sprint canoer who has competed since 2005. He won four medals in the C-2 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and two bronzes ....

 
36.019
Evgeny Ignatov
Evgeny Ignatov
Evgeny Ignatov is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since 2004...


Ivan Shtyl
Ivan Shtyl
Ivan Shtyl is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since 2004. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds and four silvers .-References:***...

 
36.411
Paweł Skowroński
Paweł Baraszkiewicz 
36.551
C-2 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August
Alexandru Dumitrescu
Alexandru Dumitrescu
Alexandru Dumitrescu is a Romanian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two gold medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, earning them in the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events.-References:...


Victor Mihalachi
Victor Mihalachi
Victor Mihalachi is a Romanian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two gold medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, earning them in the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events.-References:...

 
1:40.781
Sergiy Bezugliy
Maksym Prokopenko
Maksym Prokopenko
Maksym Serhiyovych Prokopenko is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani sprint canoer who has competed since 2002. He was born in Mykolayiv....

 
1:41.277
Pavel Petrov
Pavel Petrov
Pavel Petrov is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Alexander Kostogold 
1:41.345
C-2 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August
Alexandru Dumitrescu
Alexandru Dumitrescu
Alexandru Dumitrescu is a Romanian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two gold medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, earning them in the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events.-References:...


Victor Mihalachi
Victor Mihalachi
Victor Mihalachi is a Romanian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two gold medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, earning them in the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events.-References:...

 
3:37.317
Andrei Bahdanovich
Andrei Bahdanovich
Andrei Bahdanovich is a Belarusian sprint canoer. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics together with Aliaksandr Bahdanovich....


Aliaksandr Bahdanovich
Aliaksandr Bahdanovich
Aliaksandr Bahdanovich is a Belarusian sprint canoer. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the C-2 1000 m event at Beijing in 2008 together with Andrei Bahdanovich....

 
3:37.325
Márton Tóth
Márton Tóth
Márton Tóth is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 21 August 2010...


Róbert Mike
Róbert Mike
Róbert Mike is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since 2007. He won two bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships .-References:**...

 
3:38.057
C-4 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August
Dzmitry Rabchanka
Dzmitry Rabchanka
Dzmitry Rabchanka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has been competing since 2005. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds , two silvers , and one bronze .-References:***...


Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
Dzmitry Vaitsishkin is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has been competing since 2005. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds , two silvers , and one bronze .-References:***...


Dzianis Harasha
Aliaksandr Vauchetski
3:18.724
Gabriel Gheoca
Gabriel Gheoca
Gabriel Ghoeca is a Romanian sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 21 August 2010....


Nicolae Bogdan
Nicolae Bogdan
Nicolae Bogdan is a Romanian sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - added 21 August 2010....


Mihail Simon
Mihail Simon
Mihail Simon is a Romanian sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - added 21 August 2010....


Florin Comanici
Florin Comanici
Florin Comanici is a Romanian sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the C-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - added 21 August 2010....

 
3:20.548
Chris Wend
Chris Wend
Chris Wend is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won two medals in the C-4 1000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in 2009 and a bronze in 2010.-References:*...


Tomasz Wylenzek
Tomasz Wylenzek
Tomasz Wylenzek is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s....


Ronald Verch
Ronald Verch
Ronald Verch is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold in the C-1 5000 m , a silver in the C-4 1000 m , and a bronze in the C-4 1000 m .-References:*...


Erik Rebstock
Erik Rebstock
Erik Rebstock is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. He won two medals in the C-4 1000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in 2009 and a bronze in 2010.-References:*...

 
3:20.616

Kayak

Germany and Great Britain were the big medal winners with four each. Germany won the most golds with two. Ronald Rauhe
Ronald Rauhe
Ronald Rauhe is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals in the K-2 500 m event...

 won his record twenty-first world championship medal, eclipsing the record he tied last year with fellow German Torsten Gutsche
Torsten Gutsche
Torsten Gutsche is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s...

. Ten canoeists each won two medals from five different countries.
Event Heats Semifinals Final Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August 34.807 35.155 35.195
K-1 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August 1:38.457 1:38.961 1:39.005
K-1 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August 3:29.544 3:30.040 3:30.128
K-1 5000 m NA NA 21 August 20:01.338 20:03.574 20:06.670
K-1 4 x 200 m relay 22 August NA 22 August
Saúl Craviotto
Saúl Craviotto
Saúl Craviotto is a Spanish sprint canoer who has been racing since the mid 2000s. He won the gold medal in the K-2 500 m event with Carlos Pérez at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Francisco Llera
Francisco Llera
Francisco Llera Blanco is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. He won two gold medals in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships .Llera also finished sixth in the K-2 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:* *...


Pablo Andres
Pablo Andres
Pablo Andres is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:*...


Carlos Pérez 
2:27.409
Edward McKeever
Edward McKeever
Edward Clark Timothy McKeever was an American football player, coach, and executive. He served as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame and Cornell University and the University of San Francisco , compiling a career college football record of 25–12–1...


Jonathon Schofield
Jonathon Schofield
Jonathon Schofield is a British sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-1 4 x 200 m and a bronze in the K-2 200 m events.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Liam Heath
Liam Heath
Liam Heath is a British sprint canoer who was invited to train as part of the GB canoeing team back in November 2009 and entered his first senior season in 2010 competing in 200m K2 with Jonnie Schofield...


Edward Cox
Edward Cox (canoer)
Edward Cox is a British sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:...

 
2:27.897
Viktor Zavolskiy
Viktor Zavolskiy
Viktor Zavolskiy is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań....


Alexander Dyachenko
Alexander Dyachenko
Alexander Dyachenko is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships .-References:*...


Yevgeny Salakhov
Yevgeny Salakhov
Yevgeny Salakhov is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań....


Alexander Nikolaev
Alexander Nikolaev
Alexander Nikolaev is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:*...

 
2:28.753
K-2 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August
Arnaud Hybois
Arnaud Hybois
Arnaud Hybois is a French sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and a bronze ....


Sébastien Jouve
Sébastien Jouve
Sébastien Jouve is a French sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds , a silver , and a bronze .Jouve also finished seventh in the K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer...

 
31.532
Saúl Craviotto
Saúl Craviotto
Saúl Craviotto is a Spanish sprint canoer who has been racing since the mid 2000s. He won the gold medal in the K-2 500 m event with Carlos Pérez at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Carlos Pérez 
31.540
Liam Heath
Liam Heath
Liam Heath is a British sprint canoer who was invited to train as part of the GB canoeing team back in November 2009 and entered his first senior season in 2010 competing in 200m K2 with Jonnie Schofield...


Jonathon Schofield
Jonathon Schofield
Jonathon Schofield is a British sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-1 4 x 200 m and a bronze in the K-2 200 m events.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....

 
31.584
K-2 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August
Raman Piatrushenka
Raman Piatrushenka
Raman Piatrushenka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000...


Vadzim Makhneu
Vadzim Makhneu
Vadzim Makhneu or Vadim Makhnev is a Belarusian flatwater canoer who has competed since 2000...

 
1:29.230
Fernando Pimenta
Fernando Pimenta
Fernando Pimenta is a Portuguese sprint canoer-Career:Pimenta has competed since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:*...


João Ribeiro
João Ribeiro (canoer)
João Ribeiro is a Portuguese sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:*...

 
1:29.970
Dusko Stanojević
Dusko Stanojević
Dusko Stanejević is a Serbian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Dejan Pajić
Dejan Pajić
Dejan Pajić is a Serbian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010.*...

 
1:30.418
K-2 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August
Martin Hollstein
Martin Hollstein
Martin Hollstein is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the gold in the K-2 1000 m event with partner Andreas Ihle....


Andreas Ihle
Andreas Ihle
Andreas Ihle is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with a gold and a silver ....

 
3:13.024
Zoltán Kammerer
Zoltán Kammerer
Zoltán Kammerer is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals ....


Ákos Vereckei
Akos Vereckei
Ákos Vereckei is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s...

 
3:13.204
Ilya Medvedev
Ilya Medvedev
Ilya Medvedev is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań....


Anton Ryakhov
Anton Ryakhov
Anton Ryakhov is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers and five bronzes .Ryakhov also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning...

 
3:15.736
K-4 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August
Arnaud Hybois
Arnaud Hybois
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Étienne Hubert
Étienne Hubert
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Sébastien Jouve
Sébastien Jouve
Sébastien Jouve is a French sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds , a silver , and a bronze .Jouve also finished seventh in the K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer...


Philippe Colin
Philippe Colin
Philippe Colin is a French sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and a silver ....

 
2:54.103
Raman Piatrushenka
Raman Piatrushenka
Raman Piatrushenka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000...


Aliaksei Abalmasau
Aliaksei Abalmasau
Aliaksei Abalmasau is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 1998...


Artur Litvinchuk
Artur Litvinchuk
Artur Litvinchuk is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won the gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Vadzim Makhneu
Vadzim Makhneu
Vadzim Makhneu or Vadim Makhnev is a Belarusian flatwater canoer who has competed since 2000...

 
2:55.843
Ondřej Horský
Ondřej Horský
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Jan Souček
Jan Souček
Jan Souček is a Czech sprint canoer who competed in the early 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań....


Daniel Havel
Daniel Havel
Daniel Havel is a Czech sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won the bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.- References :* - accessed 21 August 2010....


Jan Štěrba
Jan Štěrba
Jan Štĕrba is a Czech sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. He won the bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.- References :* - accessed 21 August 2010.*...

 
2:56.023

Canoe

The first women's event was won by Canada's Laurence Vincent-Lapointe.
Event Heats Semifinals Final Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
C-1 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August 48.188 48.992 51.724

Kayak

Hungary was the big medal winner, medaling in all nine events including six golds. The big individual winner was Natasa Janics
Natasa Janics
Nataša Janić is a Hungarian sprint canoer with a Serbian background, who won two Olympic gold medals in the sprint canoe events at the 2004 Summer Olympics and another gold and silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 of Hungary with five (three gold, two silver). Her teammate Katalin Kovács
Katalin Kovács
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, won three medals to bring her career total to 38, matching that of Germany's Birgit Fischer
Birgit Fischer
Birgit Fischer is a kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East Germany , then four times representing the reunited nation...

 though Kovacs did break Fischer's career gold medal count to 29, eclipsing Fischer's 28. Japan earned their first medal at the championships with Shinobu Kitamoto
Shinobu Kitamoto
Shinobu Kitamoto is a Japanese sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, the first person from Japan to medal at the world championships.Competing in two Summer Olympics, Kitamoto...

's bronze in the K-1 200 m event. Rachel Cawthorn
Rachel Cawthorn
Rachel Cawthorn is a British sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, the first woman from Great Britain to win a medal at the world championships.-References:*...

 became the first British woman to medal at the championships with her bronze in the K-1 500 m event.
Event Heats Semifinals Final Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August 40.181 40.797 40.917
K-1 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August 1:50.461 1:50.625 1:50.929
K-1 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August 3:57.544 4:00.124 4:00.280
K-1 5000 m NA NA 21 August 22:44.927 22:53.079 23:07.683
K-1 4 x 200 m relay 22 August NA 22 August
Nicole Reinhardt
Nicole Reinhardt
Nicole Reinhardt is a German sprint canoer who competed since 1993. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Conny Waßmuth
Tina Dietze
Tina Dietze
Tina Dietze is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and three silvers .-References:*...


Katrin Wagner-Augustin
2:50.315
Natasa Janics
Natasa Janics
Nataša Janić is a Hungarian sprint canoer with a Serbian background, who won two Olympic gold medals in the sprint canoe events at the 2004 Summer Olympics and another gold and silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...


Zomilla Hegyi
Zomilla Hegyi
Zomilla Hegyi is a Hungarian-Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two silver medals in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in 2009 and 2010....


Ninetta Vad
Ninetta Vad
Ninetta Vad is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a silver medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:*...


Tímea Paksy
Tímea Paksy
Tímea Paksy is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with nine golds , six silvers Tímea Paksy (born January 22, 1983) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won...

 
2:52.211
Natalia Lobova
Natalia Lobova
Natalia Lobova is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań. At the 2011 Canoe Sprint European Championships she won the gold medal at the K-1 200m race.-References:*...


Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won three medals with a silver and two bronzes .-References:*...


Natalia Proskurina
Natalia Proskurina
Natalia Proskurina is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event.-References:*...


Anastasia Panchenko
Anastasia Panchenko
Anastasia Panchenko is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....

 
2:52.959
K-2 200 m 21 August 21 August 22 August
Katalin Kovács
Katalin Kovács
Katalin Kovács is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won six medals with two golds and four silvers .Kovács also won a record 40 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships including 31 golds Katalin Kovács (born 29 February 1976...


Natasa Janics
Natasa Janics
Nataša Janić is a Hungarian sprint canoer with a Serbian background, who won two Olympic gold medals in the sprint canoe events at the 2004 Summer Olympics and another gold and silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
36.886
Marta Walczykiewicz
Marta Walczykiewicz
Marta Walczykiewicz is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers and a bronze .-References:**...


Ewelina Wojnarowska
Ewelina Wojnarowska
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37.766
Ivana Kmeťová
Ivana Kmetová
Ivana Kmeťová is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won three medals in the K-2 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in 2007 and two bronzes ....


Martina Kohlová 
37.778
K-2 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August
Gabriella Szabó
Gabriella Szabó
Gabriella Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Danuta Kozák
Danuta Kozák
Danuta Kozák is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....

 
1:40.064
Juliana Salakhova
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won three medals with a silver and two bronzes .-References:*...

 
1:41.628
Yvonne Schuring
Yvonne Schuring
Yvonne Schuring is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 2000s. She won a bronze in the K-2 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań....


Viktoria Schwarz
Viktoria Schwarz
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1:42.684
K-2 1000 m 19 August 19 August 21 August
Gabriella Szabó
Gabriella Szabó
Gabriella Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Tamara Csipes
Tamara Csipes
Tamara Csipes is a Hungarian sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won two gold medals earning them in the K-2 1000 m and K-4 500 m events....

 
3:34.306
Carolin Leonhardt
Carolin Leonhardt
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Silke Hörmann
Silke Hörmann
Silke Hörmann is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. She won two silver medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships .-References:**...

 
3:37.426
Juliana Salakhova
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won three medals with a silver and two bronzes .-References:*...

 
3:37.554
K-4 500 m 20 August 20 August 22 August
Natasa Janics
Natasa Janics
Nataša Janić is a Hungarian sprint canoer with a Serbian background, who won two Olympic gold medals in the sprint canoe events at the 2004 Summer Olympics and another gold and silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...


Tamara Csipes
Tamara Csipes
Tamara Csipes is a Hungarian sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 2000s. At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won two gold medals earning them in the K-2 1000 m and K-4 500 m events....


Katalin Kovács
Katalin Kovács
Katalin Kovács is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won six medals with two golds and four silvers .Kovács also won a record 40 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships including 31 golds Katalin Kovács (born 29 February 1976...


Dalma Benedek
Dalma Benedek
Dalma Benedek is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since 2003. She won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds , three silvers , and two...

1:31.607
Fanny Fischer
Fanny Fischer
Fanny Fischer is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since 1996 and on the senior circuit since 2006...


Nicole Reinhardt
Nicole Reinhardt
Nicole Reinhardt is a German sprint canoer who competed since 1993. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....


Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Tina Dietze
Tina Dietze
Tina Dietze is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds and three silvers .-References:*...

 
1:32.795
Karolina Naja
Karolina Naja
Karolina Naja is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....


Aneta Konieczna
Sandra Pawelczak
Sandra Pawelczak
Sandra Pawelczak is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010.*...


Magdalena Krukowska
Magdalena Krukowska
Magdalena Krukowska is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.-References:* - accessed 22 August 2010....

1:33.815

Paracanoe

Italy won the most medals with four though none of them were gold. Canada and Brazil each won two golds and three overall. All three of Brazil's medals were the first in the history of the world championships. Tahiti's Patrick Viriamu became the first medalist from his country at the world championships as well.
Event Heats Semifinals Finals Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Men's K-1 200 m A NA NA 20 August 56.151 1:06.215 1:07.179
Men's K-1 200 m LTA 19 August NA 20 August 44.176 44.448 45.440
Men's K-1 200 m TA NA NA 20 August 44.617 53.437 56.281
Men's V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A 19 August NA 20 August 54.918 57.046 1:00.918
Women's K-1 200 m LTA NA NA 20 August 53.190 1:04.334 1:04.346
Women's K-1 200 m TA NA NA 20 August 1:02.942 1:04.534 1:06.090
Women's V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A NA NA 20 August 1:12.096 1:12.520 1:20.444

Women's canoe

Event Heats Semifinals Final First Time Second Time Third Time
C-2 500 m NA NA 22 August
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe
Mallorie Nicholson
2:03.622
Maria Kazakova
Ekaterina Petrova
2:18.110
Luciana Costa
Camila Conceição Lima
2:19.254

Medals table

Shown for the non-exhibition events only.
1 6 5 1 12
2 5 5 2 12
3 2 2 6 10
4 3 3 1 7
5 3 1 2 6
6 1 2 3 6
7 2 2 1 5
8 0 1 4 5
9 0 1 4 5
10 3 1 0 4
11 1 3 0 4
12 1 2 1 4
13 2 1 0 3
14 0 1 2 3
15 1 0 1 2
16 1 0 1 2
17 1 0 1 2
18 0 2 0 2
19 0 0 2 2
20 1 0 0 1
21 1 0 0 1
22 1 0 0 1
23 0 1 0 1
24 0 1 0 1
25 0 1 0 1
26 0 0 1 1
27 0 0 1 1
28 0 0 1 1
29 0 0 1 1
Total 36 36 37 109

Source: Medal table – from official website. Accessed 22 August 2010.

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