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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 afternoon, August 26th
 
Women. Kayak four, 200m (K1 women, 200m) 

1. Kinga DEKANY/Krisztina FAZEKAS/
   Erzsebet VISKI/Katalin Kovacs               HUN    35,715
2. Isabel GARCIA MARIA/Belen SANCHEZ JIMENEZ/
   Teresa PORTELA RIVAS/Ana Maria PENAS BALDA. ESP    36,327
3. Karolina SADALSKA/Aneta PASTUSZKA/
   Dorota KUSZKOWSKA/Joanna SKOWRON            POL    36,367
   
Men. Canadien single, 200 m (C1 men, 200 m)

1. Dmitro SABLIN                               UKR    40,443
2. Maxim OPALEV                                RUS    40,643
3. Michal SLIWINSKI                            POL    40,823

Men. Kayak single, 200 m (K1 men, 200 m)

1. Ronald RAUHE                                GER    35,428
2. Olesky SLIVINSKI                            UKR    35,648
3. Anton RIAHOV                                UZB    35,740

Women. Kayak single, 200 m (K1 women, 200 m)

1. Karen FURNEAUX                              CAN    40,733             
2  Elzbieta URBANCZYK                          POL    41,345    
3. Szilvia SZABO                               HUN    41,373

Men. Canadien double, 200 m (C2 men, 200 m)

1. Pawel BARASZKIEWICZ/Daniel JEDRASZKO        POL    36,698
2. Ionel AVERIAN/Mikhail VARTOLOMEI            ROM    36,762
3. Ibrahim ROJAS/Leobaldo PEREIRA              CUB    36,902 

Men. Kayak double, 200 m (K2 men, 200 m)

1. Alvydas DOUNELA/Egidius BALCIUNAS           LTU    32,524
2. Ronald RAUHE/Tim WIESKOETTER                GER    32,628
3. Mykola ZAICHENKOV/Mykhailo LUCHNIK          UKR    32,728

Women. Kayak double, 200 m (K2 women, 200 m)

1. Beatriz MANCHON PORTILLO/Sonia MOLANES C.   ESP    37,027
2. Beata SOKOLOWSKA/Aneta PATUSZKA             POL    37,251
3. Kinga DEKANY/Erzsebet VISKI                 HUN    37,531    
    
Men. Canadien four, 200 m (C4 men, 200 m)

1. Sandor MALOMSOKI/Gabor IVAN/
   Gyorgy ZALA/Laszlo VASALI                   HUN    33,831 
2. Petr NETUSIL/Jan BRECKA/
   Karel KOZISEK/Petr FUSKA                    CZE    33,951
3. Alexandre KOVALEV/Alexandre KOSTOGLOD/
   Vladislav POLZOUNOV/Maxim OPALEV            RUS    34,039

Men. Kayak four, 200 m (K4 men, 200 m)

1. Vince FEHERVARI/Istvan BEE/
   Gabor HORVATH/Robert Hegedus                HUN    30,210
2. Roman ZAROUBIN/Alexander IVANIK/
   Denis TOURTCHENKOV/Oleg GOROBI              RUS    30,254
3. Oleksy SLIVINSKI/Mykola ZAICHENOV/
   Mykhailo LUCHNIK/Boris MARKIN               UKR    30,318

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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,
PR & Media Director, Hauptstrasse 40, CH-4143 Dornach/Switzerland, 
Tel. +41-61/701 99 29, Fax +41-61/701 99 17, Mobil +41-79/334 19 73
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