Ronald Rauhe

Ronald Rauhe

250px Rauhe in 2007
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing Germany
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	K-2 500 m
	2008 Beijing	K-2 500 m
	2000 Sydney	K-2 500 m
World Championships
	2001 Poznań	K-1 200 m
	2001 Poznań	K-2 500 m
	2002 Seville	K-1 200 m
	2002 Seville	K-2 500 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-1 200 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-2 500 m
	2005 Zagreb	K-2 500 m
	2006 Szeged	K-1 200 m
	2006 Szeged	K-2 200 m
	2006 Szeged	K-2 500 m
	2007 Duisburg	K-2 500 m
	2009 Dartmouth	K-1 200 m
	2009 Dartmouth	K-1 500 m
	2001 Poznań	K-2 200 m
	2007 Duisburg	K-2 200 m
	2009 Dartmouth	K-1 4 x 200 m
	2010 Poznań	K-1 200 m
	2014 Moscow	K-2 200 m
	1999 Milan	K-1 200 m
	2002 Seville	K-2 200 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-2 200 m
	2011 Szeged	K-1 200 m
	2013 Duisburg	K–2 200 m
European Championships
	2014 Brandenburg	K-2 200 m
	2012 Zagreb	K-2 200 m
	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 four 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 (21 overall) in the men's kayak discipline, the most among all kayakers, breaking the tie he shared with Torsten Gutsche in 2010.

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 every year (six world titles and the 2004 Olympic gold). The pair have also won seven straight European championships over 500 m.

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 national level he has won 50 national titles at the German Championships. His 50th title were 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.

External links

• Canoe09.ca profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007.
• Official website (German)
• Sports-reference.com profile