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Ronald Rauhe

Ronald Rauhe
Ronald Rauhe 2007 DM HH.jpg
Rauhe in 2007
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens K-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing K-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney K-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-1 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Poznań K-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2001 Poznań K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2002 Seville K-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2002 Seville K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Gainesville K-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Gainesville K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2005 Zagreb K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2006 Szeged K-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2006 Szeged K-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2006 Szeged K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2007 Duisburg K-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2009 Dartmouth K-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2009 Dartmouth K-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2001 Poznań K-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2007 Duisburg K-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2009 Dartmouth K-1 4 x 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2010 Poznań K-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Moscow K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Milan K-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Seville K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Gainesville K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Szeged K-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Duisburg K–2 200 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Brandenburg K-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2012 Zagreb K-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-2 200 m

Ronald Rauhe (born 2 October 1981 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 1997. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals in the K-2 500 m event (gold: 2004, silver: 2008, bronze: 2000). Rauhe has won 13 world championship gold medals, the most by a male kayaker; now with 23 World medals, in 2011 he exceeded the 20 of his compatriot, Torsten Gutsche.

Rauhe was selected for the 1997 World Junior Championships in Lahti, Finland at the age of just fifteen years nine months. Competing against paddlers up to three years older he won two medals – gold in the K-4 500 m and silver in the K-1 500 m, an unprecedented achievement for a fifteen-year-old. After winning three more gold medals at the next edition of the world junior championships in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1999 he stepped up to the senior German national team.

At the age of seventeen, he enjoyed immediate success, taking the bronze medal in the men's K-1 200 m World Championship final the same year.

Since 2000, the Rauhe/Wieskötter partnership has enjoyed unrivalled success, winning the major K-2 500 m race from 2001 to 2007 (six world titles and the 2004 Olympic gold). The pair have also won eight straight European championships over 500 m (2000-2008; there was no championship in 2003).

Rauhe also dominated the K-1 200 m individual sprint, winning three consecutive golds in both the world and European championships before losing out to Spain's Carlos Pérez in 2005.

If Rauhe's rivals hoped this marked the beginning of a decline in the German's fortunes they were to be disappointed. In 2006 Rauhe was back on top form and won more titles than ever before. At the European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic he won three gold medals, retaining his K-2 500 m title, regaining the K-1 200 m crown from Pérez and winning the K-2 200 m for the first time in his career.


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