2006 World Rowing Championships

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The 29th World Rowing Championships were held at the Dorney Lake, Eton, Great Britain, between August 20 and August 27, 2006.

Men's Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Single Sculls - M1x	New Zealand Mahé Drysdale	6:35.40	Germany Marcel Hacker	6:35.49	Czech Republic Ondřej Synek	6:37.51
Lightweight Single Sculls - LM1x	Great Britain Zac Purchase	6:47.82	Spain Juan Zunzunegui Guimerans	6:50.14	New Zealand Duncan Grant	6:52.73
Double Sculls - M2x	France Jean-Baptiste Macquet & Adrien Hardy	6:07.60	Slovenia Luka Špik & Iztok Čop	6:09.79	Great Britain Matthew Wells & Stephen Rowbotham	6:10.95
Lightweight Double Sculls - LM2x	Denmark Mads Rasmussen & Rasmus Quist	6:11.42	Italy Marcello Miani & Elia Luini	6:14.90	France Fabrice Moreau & Frederic Dufour	6:15.94
Quadruple Sculls - M4x	Poland Konrad Wasielewski, Marek Kolbowicz, Michał Jeliński & Adam Korol	5:38.99	Ukraine Volodymyr Pavlovskyi, Dmytro Prokopenko, Sergiy Biloushchenko & Sergiy Gryn	5:40.47	Estonia Allar Raja, Igor Kuzmin, Tõnu Endrekson & Andrei Jämsä	5:41.23
Lightweight Quadruple Sculls - LM4x	Italy Gardino Pellolio, Daniele Gilardoni, Luca Moncada & Daniele Danesin	5:53.83	Germany Kai Anspach, Martin Rückbrodt, Knud Lange & Christoph Schregel	5:55.87	France Bastien Tabourier, Quentin Colard, Maxime Goisset & Remi Di Girolamo	5:57.42
Coxless Pairs - M2-	Australia Drew Ginn & Duncan Free	6:18.00	New Zealand Nathan Twaddle & George Bridgewater	6:19.13	Canada Kevin Light & Malcolm Howard	6:21.83
Coxed Pairs - M2+	Serbia and Montenegro Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović & Ivan Ninkovic	6:51.27	Italy Francesco Gabriele, Dario Cerasola & Andrea Riva	6:54.39	Canada James Byrnes, Derek O'Farrell & Brian Price	6:55.41
Coxless Fours - M4-	Great Britain Steve Williams, Peter Reed, Alex Partridge & Andrew Triggs-Hodge	5:43.75	Germany Gregor Hauffe, Toni Seifert, Urs Käufer & Philip Adamski	5:44.64	Netherlands Geert Cirkel, Jan-Willem Gabriëls, Matthijs Vellenga & Gijs Vermeulen	5:45.54
Coxed Fours - M4+	Germany Jan Martin Bröer, Matthias Flach, Philipp Naruhn, Florian Eichner & Martin Sauer	6:05.77	Canada Max Lang, Chris Aylard, Robert Gibson, Will Crothers & Stephen Cheng	6:06.47	New Zealand James Dallinger, Steven Cottle, Paul Gerritsen, Dane Boswell & Daniel Quigley	6:07.37
Lightweight Fours - LM4-	China Zhongming Huang, Chongkui Wu, Lin Zhang & Jun Tian	5:49.43	France Franck Solforosi, Jeremy Pouge, Jean-Christophe Bette & Fabien Tilliet	5:51.26	Ireland Gearoid Towey, Eugene Coakley, Richard Archibald & Paul Griffin	5:51.35
Eights - M8+	Germany Jörg Dießner, Sebastian Schulte, Stephan Koltzk, Philipp Stüer, Jan Tebrügge, Ulf Siemes, Thorsten Engelmann, Bernd Heidicker & Peter Thiede	5:21.85	Italy Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolo Mornati, Luca Agamennoni, Alessio Sartori, Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale, Pierpaolo Frattini, Carlo Mornati & Gaetano Iannuzzi	5:23.29	United States Paul Daniels, Matt Deakin, Steve Coppola Jr, Kenneth Jurkowski, Giuseppe Lanzone, Daniel Walsh, Beau Hoopman, Marcus McElhenney & Christopher Liwski	5:24.14

Women's Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Single Sculls - W1x	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch	7:11.02	Czech Republic Mirka Knapkova	7:15.02	Sweden Frida Svensson	7:18.35
Lightweight Single Sculls - LW1x	Netherlands Marit van Eupen	7:32.26	Germany Berit Carow	7:33.61	Spain Teresa Mas De Xaxars	7:34.98
Double Sculls - W2x	Australia Liz Kell & Brooke Pratley	6:47.67	Germany Britta Oppelt & Susanne Schmidt	6:47.95	New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell & Caroline Evers-Swindell	6:48.82
Lightweight Double Sculls - LW2x	China Dongxiang Xu & Shimin Yan	6:55.12	Australia Marguerite Houston & Amber Halliday	6:56.57	Greece Chrysi Biskitzi & Alexandra Tsiavou	6:57.14
Quadruple Sculls - W4x	Great Britain Debbie Flood, Sarah Winckless, Frances Houghton & Katherine Grainger	6:12.50	Australia Catriona Sens, Sonia Mills, Dana Faletic & Sally Kehoe	6:13.99	Germany Christiane Huth, Magdalena Schmude, Jeannine Hennicke & Stephanie Schiller	6:14.67
Lightweight Quadruple Sculls - LW4x	China Hua Yu, Haixia Chen, Xuefei Fan & Jing Liu	6:23.96	Denmark Kirsten Jepsen, Sine Christiansen, Katrin Olsen & Juliane Rasmussen	6:28.16	Great Britain Laura Ralston, Lindsay Dick, Hester Goodsell & Sophie Hosking	6:30.02
Coxless Pairs - W2-	Canada Darcy Marquardt & Jane Rumball	6:54.68	New Zealand Juliette Haigh & Nicky Coles	6:56.72	Germany Nicole Zimmerman & Elke Hipler	6:57.11
Coxless Fours - W4-	Australia Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley & Kate Hornsey	6:25.35	China Fei Yu, Meng Li, Tong Li & Xiuhua Luo	6:26.75	United States Portia Johnson, Erin Cafaro, Esther Lofgren & Rachel Jeffers	6:28.66
Eights - W8+	United States Brett Sickler, Megan Cooke, Anna Goodale, Lindsay Shoop, Anna Mickelson, Susan Francia, Caroline Lind, Caryn Davies & Mary Whipple	5:55.50	Germany Nina Wengert, Johanna Rönfeldt, Christina Gerking, Nadine Schmultzer, Lenka Wech, Maren Derlien, Nicole Zimmerman, Elke Hipler & Annina Ruppel	5:57.29	Australia Jo Lutz, Robyn Selby Smith, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey, Emily Martin, Sarah Cook, Kim Crow, Sarah Heard & Lizzy Patrick	6:00.29

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	3	2	1	6
2	China	3	1	0	4
3	Great Britain	3	0	2	5
4	Germany	2	6	2	10
5	Italy	1	3	0	4
6	New Zealand	1	2	3	6
7	France	1	2	2	5
8	Canada	1	1	2	4
9	Denmark	1	1	0	2
10	United States	1	0	2	3
11	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
12	Belarus	1	0	0	1
12	Poland	1	0	0	1
12	Serbia and Montenegro	1	0	0	1
15	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
15	Spain	0	1	1	2
17	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
17	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
19	Estonia	0	0	1	1
19	Greece	0	0	1	1
19	Ireland	0	0	1	1
19	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Total	21	21	21	63

External links

• Archive of 2006 World Rowing Championships official website
• Results
• World Championship Medal Winners