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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. 
Sunday morning, August 26th
 
Women. Kayak four, 500m (K1 women, 500m) 

1. Katalin KOVACS/Szilvia SZABO/
   Erzsebet VISKI/Kinga BOTA                   HUN    1:36,083
2. Manuela MUCKE/Katrin WAGNER/
   Anett SCHUCK/Nadine OPGEN_RHEIN             GER    1:37,403
3. Isabel GARCIA MARIA/Belen SANCHEZ JIMENEZ/
   Teresa PORTELA RIVAS/Ana Maria PENAS BALDA. ESP    1:37,847
   
Men. Canadien single, 500 m (C1 men, 500 m)

1. Andreas KILIGARIDIS                         GRE    1:58,067
2. Kaisar NURMAGANBETOV                        KAZ    1:58,085 
3. Jose Manuel CRESPO VILLANUEVA               ARG    1:58,385

Men. Kayak single, 500 m (K1 men, 500 m)

1. Akos VERECKEI                               HUN    1:40,722    
2. Anton RIAHOV                                UZB    1:41,182
3. Javier CORREA                               ARG    1:41,492

Women. Kayak single, 500 m (K1 women, 500 m)

1. Josefa IDEM                                 ITA    1:53,561    
3. Katrin BORCHERT                             AUS    1:54,137
2. Katalin KOVACS                              HUN    1:54,581


Men. Canadien double, 500 m (C2 men, 500 m)
 
1. Ibrahim ROJAS/Leobaldo PEREIRA              CUB    1:44,351
2. Pawel BARASZKIEWICZ/Daniel JEDRASZKO        POL    1:44,367       
3. Mitica PRICOP/Florin POPESCU                ROM    1:44,791

Men. Kayak double, 500 m (K2 men, 500 m)

1. Ronald RAUHE/ Tim WIESKOETTER               GER    1:31,603
2. Alvyadas DUONELA/Egidius BALCIUNAS          LTU    1:32,203
3. Marcus OSKARSSON/Henrik NILSSON             SWE    1:32,495

Women. Kayak double, 500 m (K2 women, 500 m)

1. Szilvia SZABO/Kinga BOTA                    HUN    1:44,946
2. Beata SOKOLOWSKA/Aneta PATUSZKA             POL    1:45,378 
3. Beatriz MANCHON PORTILLO/Sonia MOLANES C.   ESP    1:45,918

Men. Canadien four, 500 m (C4 men, 500 m)

1. Iosif ANISIM/Florin POPESCU/                 
   Mikhail VARTOLOMEI/Ionel AVERIAN            ROM    1:35,810
2. Gyorgy ZALA/Gyorgy KOZMANN/
   Bela BELICZA/Gabor IVAN                     HUN    1:35,882
3. Roman KROUGLIAKOV/Konstantine FOMITCHEV/
   Vladimir LADOCHA/Alexei VOLKONSKI           RUS    1:36,314

Men. Kayak four, 500 m (K4 men, 500 m)

1. Tomasz MENDELSKI/Adam SEROCZYNSKY/
   Dariusz BIALKOWSKI/Rafal GLAZEWSKI          POL    1:24,478
2. Ivan ESPOSITO/Andrea FACCHIN/
   Luca PIEMONTE/Antonio SCADUTO               ITA    1:25,168
3. Craig RODGERS/Justin DEAN/
   Tim BIRD/David RHODES                       AUS    1:25,288

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All results on      http://www.kayak.pl/regaty/
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August 26th, 2001 / INERNATIONAL CANOE FEDERATION, Raymond W. Kamber,
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