2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 19–22 August 2010 in Poznań, Poland, on Lake Malta. This was the third time that the Polish city hosted the championships, having done so previously in 1990 and 2001. Paracanoe (formerly paddleability) and the women's C-1 200 m events that were exhibition events at the previous world championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, became official events at these championships.

2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Host cityPoland Poznań, Poland, on Lake Malta
DatesAugust 19–22, 2010
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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

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Canoe sprint competitions are broken up into Canadian canoe (C), an open canoe with a single-blade paddle, or in kayaks (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 (660 ft), 500 metres (1,600 ft), or 1,000 metres (3,300 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 (1,600 ft) distance.[1]

Preliminaries to the event

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Poznań was awarded the 2010 championships at an ICF board of directors meeting in Madrid, Spain, on 23 October 2003.[2]

Event format changes

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At the 2009 ICF board of directors meeting in Windsor, Berkshire, England, 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.[3] The relay events, started at the previous championships, and 5000 m events, included for the first time since their discontinuation after the 1993 championships in Copenhagen, will also occur.[3] Paracanoe (formerly referred to as paddleability) will have four events covering three classifications with LTA (Legs, Trunk, and Arms), TA (Trunk and Arms), and A (Arms only).[3] The events were confirmed following successes at the previous world championships on 18 December 2009.[4] The schedule for the championships was released on 10 June 2010.[5]

Visit from the ICF

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During the week of 1 March 2010, the ICF visited Lake Malta to meet with the Host Organizing Committee (HOC) to see how event preparations were progressing.[6] Some items discussed were broadcasting, event promotion, athlete services, and communications.[6] 2.5 hours of live television coverage on a daily basis is planned for the semifinal and final event as provided in the contract to meet the needs of the European market.[6] 61 million people watched last year's championships in Canada.[6] ICF Secretary General Simon Toulson expressed his support of the HOC and his hope that the 2010 championships will be a good one.[6]

Event progress

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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.[7]

Participating nations

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75 nations were listed on the preliminary entry list.[8] The numbers in parentheses shown are for those who competed for each respective nation.[9]

Russia had the most overall attendees with 42.

The media guide listed 75 nations as participating, but four nations listed did not compete (India, Iraq, Malta, Malaysia).

Results

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Men's

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Canoe

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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, in the K-1 1000 m gold between Italy's Oreste Perri and Poland's Grzegorz Śledziewski.

Event Heats[5] Semifinals[5] Final[5] Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
C-1 200 m[10] 21 August 21 August 22 August   Ivan Shtyl (RUS) 39.161   Thomas Simart (FRA) 39.729   Richard Dalton (CAN)
  Yuriy Cheban (UKR)
39.953
C-1 500 m[11] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Dzianis Harasha (BLR) 1:47.701   Li Qiang (CHN) 1:48.317   Vadim Menkov (UZB) 1:48.457
C-1 1000 m[12] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Vadim Menkov (UZB) 3:51.721   Attila Vajda (HUN) 3:51.921   Sebastian Brendel (GER) 3:53.837
C-1 5000 m[13] NA NA 21 August   Ronald Verch (GER) 23:24.342   José Luis Bouza (ESP) 23:26.398   Marian Ostcril (SVK) 23:38.070
C-1 4 × 200 m relay[14] 22 August NA 22 August   Russia
Ivan Shtyl
Mikhail Pavlov
Nikolay Lipkin
Evgeny Ignatov
2:48.143   Ukraine
Oleksandr Maksymchuk
Yuriy Cheban
Stanislav Shymansky
Vyacheslav Tsekhosh
2:50.675   Poland
Adam Ginter
Roman Rynkiewicz
Mariusz Kruk
Paweł Baraszkiewicz
2:51.059
C-2 200 m[15] 21 August 21 August 22 August   Lithuania
Raimundas Labuckas
Tomas Gadeikis
36.019   Russia
Evgeny Ignatov
Ivan Shtyl
36.411   Poland
Paweł Skowroński
Paweł Baraszkiewicz
36.551
C-2 500 m[16] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Romania
Alexandru Dumitrescu
Victor Mihalachi
1:40.781   Azerbaijan
Sergiy Bezugliy
Maksym Prokopenko
1:41.277   Russia
Pavel Petrov
Alexander Kostogold
1:41.345
C-2 1000 m[17] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Romania
Alexandru Dumitrescu
Victor Mihalachi
3:37.317   Belarus
Andrei Bahdanovich
Aliaksandr Bahdanovich
3:37.325   Hungary
Márton Tóth
Róbert Mike
3:38.057
C-4 1000 m[18] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Belarus
Dzmitry Rabchanka
Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
Dzianis Harasha
Aliaksandr Vauchetski
3:18.724   Romania
Gabriel Gheoca
Nicolae Bogdan
Mihail Simon
Florin Comănici
3:20.548   Germany
Chris Wend
Tomasz Wylenzek
Ronald Verch
Erik Rebstock
3:20.616

Kayak

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Germany and Great Britain were the big medal winners with four each. Germany won the most golds with two. Ronald Rauhe won his record twenty-first world championship medal, eclipsing the record he tied last year with fellow German Torsten Gutsche. Ten canoeists each won two medals from five different countries.

Event Heats[5] Semifinals[5] Final[5] Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 200 m[19] 21 August 21 August 22 August   Edward McKeever (GBR) 34.807   Ronald Rauhe (GER) 35.155   Piotr Siemionowski (POL) 35.195
K-1 500 m[20] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Anders Gustafsson (SWE) 1:38.457   Peter Gelle (SVK) 1:38.961   Adam van Koeverden (CAN) 1:39.005
K-1 1000 m[21] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Max Hoff (GER) 3:29.544   Tim Brabants (GBR) 3:30.040   Aleh Yurenia (BLR) 3:30.128
K-1 5000 m[22] NA NA 21 August   Ken Wallace (AUS) 20:01.338   Max Hoff (GER) 20:03.574   Maximilian Benassi (ITA) 20:06.670
K-1 4 × 200 m relay[23] 22 August NA 22 August   Spain
Saúl Craviotto
Francisco Llera
Pablo Andrés
Carlos Pérez
2:27.409   Great Britain
Edward McKeever
Jon Schofield
Liam Heath
Edward Cox
2:27.897   Russia
Viktor Zavolskiy
Alexander Dyachenko
Yevgeny Salakhov
Alexander Nikolaev
2:28.753
K-2 200 m[24] 21 August 21 August 22 August   France
Arnaud Hybois
Sébastien Jouve
31.532   Spain
Saúl Craviotto
Carlos Pérez
31.540   Great Britain
Liam Heath
Jon Schofield
31.584
K-2 500 m[25] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Belarus
Raman Piatrushenka
Vadzim Makhneu
1:29.230   Portugal
Fernando Pimenta
João Ribeiro
1:29.970   Serbia
Duško Stanojević
Dejan Pajić
1:30.418
K-2 1000 m[26] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Germany
Martin Hollstein
Andreas Ihle
3:13.024   Hungary
Zoltán Kammerer
Ákos Vereckei
3:13.204   Russia
Ilya Medvedev
Anton Ryakhov
3:15.736
K-4 1000m[27] 19 August 19 August 21 August   France
Arnaud Hybois
Étienne Hubert
Sébastien Jouve
Philippe Colin
2:54.103   Belarus
Raman Piatrushenka
Aliaksei Abalmasau
Artur Litvinchuk
Vadzim Makhneu
2:55.843   Czech Republic
Ondřej Horský
Jan Souček
Daniel Havel
Jan Štěrba
2:56.023

Women's

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Canoe

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The first women's event was won by Canada's Laurence Vincent-Lapointe.

Event Heats[5] Semifinals[5] Final[5] Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
C-1 200 m[28] 21 August 21 August 22 August   Laurence Vincent-Lapointe (CAN) 48.188   Li Tiantian (CHN) 48.992   Maria Kazakova (RUS) 51.724

Kayak

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Hungary was the big medal winner, medaling in all nine events including six golds. The big individual winner was Natasa Janics of Hungary with five (three gold, two silver). Her teammate Katalin Kovács, won three medals to bring her career total to 38, matching that of Germany's Birgit Fischer 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's bronze in the K-1 200 m event. Rachel Cawthorn became the first British woman to medal at the championships with her bronze in the K-1 500 m event.

Event Heats[5] Semifinals[5] Final[5] Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
K-1 200 m[29] 21 August 21 August 22 August   Nataša Janić (HUN) 40.181   Inna Osypenko (UKR) 40.797   Shinobu Kitamoto (JPN) 40.917
K-1 500 m[30] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Inna Osypenko (UKR) 1:50.461   Nataša Janić (HUN) 1:50.625   Rachel Cawthorn (GBR) 1:50.929
K-1 1000 m[31] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Franziska Weber (GER) 3:57.544   Katalin Kovács (HUN) 4:00.124   Sofia Paldanius (SWE) 4:00.280
K-1 5000 m[32] NA NA 21 August   Vivien Folláth (HUN) 22:44.927   Maryna Paltaran (BLR) 22:53.079   Anne Rikala (FIN) 23:07.683
K-1 4 × 200 m relay[33] 22 August NA 22 August   Germany
Nicole Reinhardt
Conny Waßmuth
Tina Dietze
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
2:50.315   Hungary
Nataša Janić
Zomilla Hegyi
Ninetta Vad
Tímea Paksy
2:52.211   Russia
Natalia Lobova
Anastasia Sergeeva
Natalia Proskurina
Anastasia Panchenko
2:52.959
K-2 200 m[34] 21 August 21 August 22 August   Hungary
Katalin Kovács
Nataša Janić
36.886   Poland
Marta Walczykiewicz
Ewelina Wojnarowska
37.766   Slovakia
Ivana Kmeťová
Martina Kohlová
37.778
K-2 500 m[35] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Hungary
Gabriella Szabó
Danuta Kozák
1:40.064   Russia
Juliana Salakhova
Anastasia Sergeeva
1:41.628   Austria
Yvonne Schuring
Viktoria Schwarz
1:42.684
K-2 1000 m[36] 19 August 19 August 21 August   Hungary
Gabriella Szabó
Tamara Csipes
3:34.306   Germany
Carolin Leonhardt
Silke Hörmann
3:37.426   Russia
Juliana Salakhova
Anastasia Sergeeva
3:37.554
K-4 500 m[37] 20 August 20 August 22 August   Hungary
Nataša Janić
Tamara Csipes
Katalin Kovács
Dalma Benedek
1:31.607   Germany
Fanny Fischer
Nicole Reinhardt
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Tina Dietze
1:32.795   Poland
Karolina Naja
Aneta Konieczna
Sandra Pawelczak
Magdalena Krukowska
1:33.815

Paracanoe

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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[5] Semifinals[5] Finals[5] Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Men's K-1 200 m A[38] NA NA 20 August   Fernando Fernandes Padua (BRA) 56.151   Antonio De Diego (ESP) 1:06.215   Jono Broome (GBR) 1:07.179
Men's K-1 200 m LTA[39] 19 August NA 20 August   Iulian Serban (ROU) 44.176   Martin Farineaux (FRA) 44.448   Andrea Testa (ITA) 45.440
Men's K-1 200 m TA[40] NA NA 20 August   Marcus Swoboda (AUT) 44.617   Paolo Bressi (ITA) 53.437   Henry Manni (FIN) 56.281
Men's V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A[41] 19 August NA 20 August   Patrick Viriamu (TAH) 54.918   Gerhard Bowitzky (GER) 57.046   George Thomas (NZL) 1:00.918
Women's K-1 200 m LTA[42] NA NA 20 August   Christine Gauthier (CAN) 53.190   Marta Santos Ferreira (BRA) 1:04.334   Giovanna Chiriu (ITA) 1:04.346
Women's K-1 200 m TA[43] NA NA 20 August   Marta Santos Ferreira (BRA) 1:02.942   Christine Selinger (CAN) 1:04.534   Séverine Amiot (FRA) 1:06.090
Women's V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A[44] NA NA 20 August   Christine Selinger (CAN) 1:12.096   Tami Hetke (USA) 1:12.520   Lorella Bellato (ITA) 1:20.444

Exhibition

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Women's canoe

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Event Heats[5] Semifinals[5] Final[5] First Time Second Time Third Time
C-2 500 m[45] NA NA 22 August   Canada
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe
Mallorie Nicholson
2:03.622   Russia
Maria Kazakova
Ekaterina Petrova
2:18.110   Brazil
Luciana Costa
Camila Conceição Lima
2:19.254

Medal table

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Shown for the non-exhibition events only.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Hungary65112
2  Germany55212
3  Belarus3317
4  Canada3126
5  Romania3104
6  Russia22610
7  France2215
8  Brazil2103
9  Spain1304
10  Great Britain1236
11  Ukraine1214
12  Austria1012
  Sweden1012
  Uzbekistan1012
15  Australia1001
  French Polynesia1001
  Lithuania1001
18  China0202
19  Italy0145
  Poland0145
21  Slovakia0123
22  Azerbaijan0101
  Portugal0101
  United States0101
25  Finland0022
26  Czech Republic0011
  Japan0011
  New Zealand0011
  Serbia0011
Totals (29 entries)353536106

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

References

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  11. ^ Men's C-1 500 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  12. ^ Men's C-1 1000 m A final results. Archived 25 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  13. ^ Men's C-1 5000 m final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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  16. ^ Men's C-2 500 m A final results. Archived 27 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  17. ^ Men's C-2 1000 m A final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  18. ^ Men's C-4 1000 m final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – added 21 August 2010.
  19. ^ Men's K-1 200 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  20. ^ Men's K-1 500 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  21. ^ Men's K-1 1000 m A final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  22. ^ Men's K-1 5000 m final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
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  30. ^ Women's K-1 500 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  31. ^ Women's K-1 1000 m A final results. Archived 25 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  32. ^ Women's K-1 5000 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  33. ^ Women's K-1 4 x 200 m relay A final results. Archived 27 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  34. ^ Women's K-2 200 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  35. ^ Women's K-2 500 m A final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  36. ^ Women's K-2 1000 m A final results. Archived 25 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  37. ^ Women's K-4 500 m A final results. Archived 27 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  38. ^ Men's K-1 200 m A Final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  39. ^ Men's K-1 200 m LTA results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  40. ^ Men's K-1 200 m TA final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  41. ^ Men's V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  42. ^ Women's K-1 LTA final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  43. ^ Women's K-1 TA final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  44. ^ Women's V-1 200 m LTA, TA, A final results. Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  45. ^ Women's C-2 500 m A Final results. Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine – Retrieved 22 August 2010.
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