Ronald Rauhe

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.

Ronald Rauhe
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1981-10-03) 3 October 1981
West Berlin, West Germany
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country Germany
SportSprint 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  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2004 AthensK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2020 TokyoK-4 500 m
Silver medal – second place2008 BeijingK-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2000 SydneyK-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2016 Rio de JaneiroK-1 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2001 PoznańK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2001 PoznańK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2002 SevilleK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2002 SevilleK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2003 GainesvilleK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2003 GainesvilleK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2005 ZagrebK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2006 SzegedK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2006 SzegedK-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2006 SzegedK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2007 DuisburgK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2009 DartmouthK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2009 DartmouthK-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place2017 RačiceK-4 500 m
Gold medal – first place2018 Montemor-o-VelhoK-4 500 m
Gold medal – first place2019 SzegedK-4 500 m
Silver medal – second place2001 PoznańK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2007 DuisburgK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2009 DartmouthK-1 4 x 200 m
Silver medal – second place2010 PoznańK-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2014 MoscowK-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place1999 MilanK-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2002 SevilleK-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2003 GainesvilleK-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2011 SzegedK-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2013 DuisburgK–2 200 m
European Games
Silver medal – second place2019 MinskK-4 500 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2000 PoznańK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2001 MilanK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2001 MilanK-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2001 MilanK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2002 SzegedK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2002 SzegedK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2004 PoznańK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2004 PoznańK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2005 PoznańK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2006 RačiceK-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2006 RačiceK-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2006 RačiceK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2007 PontevedraK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2008 MilanK-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2014 BrandenburgK-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2015 RačiceK-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2021 PoznańK-4 500 m
Silver medal – second place2002 SzegedK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2005 PoznańK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2007 PontevedraK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2009 BrandenburgK-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2009 BrandenburgK-1 4×200 m
Silver medal – second place2010 TrasonaK-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2012 ZagrebK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2013 Montemor-o-VelhoK-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2018 BelgradeK-4 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2016 MoscowK-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2017 PlovdivK-2 200 m

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.

References
  • Ronald Rauhe at Canoe09.ca at the Wayback Machine (archived August 17, 2009)
  • "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  • "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 November 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
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