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                 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SPRINT RACING 2001
                          (Flatwater Racing)
                             22-26 August 
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                           The Medal Winners
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POZNAN / POLAND, Lake Malta, 54 Nations. 
Saturday, August 25th
 
Women. Kayak four, 1000 m (K1 women, 1000 m) 

1. Kinga DEKANY/Szilvia SZABO/
   Erzsebet VISKI/Kinga BOTA                   HUN    3:23,112 
2. Karolina SADALSKA/Aneta BIALKOWSKA/
   Dorota KUCZKOWSKA/Joanna SKOWRON            POL    3:24,564
3. Hanna BALABANOVA/Natalia FIKLISOVA/
   Inna OSIPENKO/Tatiana SEMIKINA              UKR    3:25,296  

Men. Canadien single, 1000 m (C1 men, 1000 m)

1. Andreas DITTMER                             GER    3:56,224
2. Martin DOKTOR                               CZE    3:57,910
3. Gyorgy KOLONICS                             HUN    3:58,234

Men. Kayak single, 1000 m (K1 men, 1000 m)

1. Babak AMIR-TAHMASSEB                        FRA    3:34,776
2. Javier CORREA                               ARG    3:35,826
3. Lutz LIWOWSKI                               GER    3:36,026

Women. Kayak single, 1000 m (K1 women, 1000 m)

1. Josefa IDEM                                 ITA    4:02,903
2. Katrin WAGNER                               GER    4:05,069
3. Katrin BORCHERT                             AUS    4:05,243

Men. Canadien double, 1000 m (C2 men, 1000 m)
 
1. Marcin KOBIERSKI/Michal SLIWINSKI           POL    3:39,239
2. Alfredo BEA JOSE/David MASCATO GARCIA       ESP    3:40,625       
3. Ibrahim ROJAS/Leobaldo PEREIRA              CUB    3:40,847

Women. Kayak double, 1000 m (K2 women, 1000 m)

1. Manuela MUCKE/Nadine OPGEN-RHEIN            GER    3:45,842
2. Katrin BORCHERT/Katrin KIESELER             AUS    3:46,940
3. Beatriz MANCHON-PORTILLO/Sonia MOLANES      ESP    3:47,048

Men. Kayak double, 1000 m (K2 men, 1000 m)

1. Eric V. LARSEN/Nils O. FJELDHEIM            NOR    3:16,685 
2. Krisztian BARTFAI/Krisztian VEREB           HUN    3:18,845
3. Marc WESTPHALEN/Marco HERSZEL               GER    3:18,863

Men. Canadien four, 1000 m (C4 men, 1000 m)

1. Gyorgy ZALA/Gyorgy KOZMANN/
   Bela BELICZA/GaborIVAN                      HUN    3:23,847
2. Ivan SKOVORODKIN/Alexandr BOGDANOVICH/
   Alexandr KURLANDCHI/Alexandr ZHUKOVSKI      BLR    3:25,179
3. Iosif ANISIM/Chiriac MARCOV/
   Ionel AVERIAN/Mikhail VARTOLOMEI            ROM    3:25,569

Men. Kayak four, 1000 m (K4 men, 1000 m)

1. Andreas IHLE/Mark ZABEL/
   Bjoern BACH/ Stefan ULM                     GER    2:56,607
2. Zoltan KAMMERER/Botond STORCZ/
   Roland KOKENY/Gabor HORVATH                 HUN    2:58,077
3. Roman ZAROUBIN/Alexander IVANIK
   Denis TOURTCHENKOV/Oleg GOROBI              RUS    2:58,383       

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All results on      http://www.kayak.pl/regaty/
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August 25th, 2001 / INERNATIONAL CANOE FEDERATION, Raymond W. Kamber,
PR & Media Director, Hauptstrasse 40, CH-4143 Dornach/Switzerland, 
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