Ronald Rauhe

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Ronald Rauhe
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Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1981-10-03) 3 October 1981 (age 42)
West Berlin, West Germany
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Sport Sprint kayak
Event(s)K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m
ClubKC Potsdam
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo K-4 500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Beijing K-2 500 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2000 Sydney K-2 500 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-1 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Poznań K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Poznań K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Seville K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Seville K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Gainesville K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2003 Gainesville K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Zagreb K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Szeged K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Szeged K-2 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Szeged K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Duisburg K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Dartmouth K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Dartmouth K-1 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Račice K-4 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Montemor-o-Velho K-4 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Szeged K-4 500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2001 Poznań K-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 Duisburg K-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Dartmouth K-1 4 x 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Poznań K-1 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Moscow K-2 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Milan K-1 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Seville K-2 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Gainesville K-2 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Szeged K-1 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Duisburg K–2 200 m
European Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Minsk K-4 500 m
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2000 Poznań K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Milan K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2001 MilanK-2 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2001 MilanK-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Szeged K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2002 SzegedK-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Poznań K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2004 PoznańK-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Poznań K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Račice K-1 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2006 RačiceK-2 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2006 RačiceK-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Pontevedra K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Milan K-2 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Brandenburg K-2 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Račice K-2 200 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Poznań K-4 500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2002 SzegedK-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2005 PoznańK-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2007 PontevedraK-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Brandenburg K-1 500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 BrandenburgK-1 4×200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Trasona K-1 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 Zagreb K-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-2 200 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Belgrade K-4 500 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Moscow K-2 200 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Plovdiv K-2 200 m

Ronald Rauhe (born 3 October 1981) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 1997. Competing in six 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 16 world championship gold medals, the most by a male kayaker; now with 26 World medals, in 2011 he exceeded the 20 of his compatriot, Torsten Gutsche.

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Early career

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.

Senior career

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.

These three victories were repeated at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. Rauhe's dominance was best illustrated by his victory in the K-2 200 m final in a race that was scheduled just twenty minutes after his K-1 final (and against a field of rested opponents none of whom had competed in the earlier race).

At the World Championships in his home country Germany in 2007, he and his partner Tim Wieskötter won again the K-2 500 m and came second in the K-2 200 m.

On the national level, he has won 50 national titles at the German Championships. His 50th title was the 500 m in the K-1 on 2 May 2009 in Duisburg.

In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for Germany in canoe sprint, more specifically, Men's K-2 200m with Tom Liebscher. He earned a silver medal.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the K-1 200 metres event, recording the same time (to a thousandth of a second) as Saúl Craviotto – wiping out the memory of his greatest competitive disappointment, finishing last in the final heat of this event four years previously at the London Olympics.

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