The 2006 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 20 to 27 August 2006 at Dorney Lake, Dorney, Great Britain.^[1]

Medal summary

Men

  Non-Olympic classes

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
M1x	New Zealand Mahé Drysdale	6:35.40	Germany Marcel Hacker	6:35.49	Czech Republic Ondřej Synek	6:37.51
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
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
M2+	Serbia and Montenegro Nikola Stojić Jovan Popović Ivan Ninković	6:51.27	Italy Francesco Gabriele Dario Cerasola Andrea Riva	6:54.39	Canada Andrew Byrnes Derek O'Farrell Brian Price	6:55.41
M4x	Poland Konrad Wasielewski Marek Kolbowicz Michał Jeliński Adam Korol	5:38.99	Ukraine Volodymyr Pavlovskiy Dmytro Prokopenko Serhiy Biloushchenko Sergiy Gryn	5:40.47	Estonia Allar Raja Igor Kuzmin Tõnu Endrekson Andrei Jämsä	5:41.23
M4-	Great Britain Steve Williams Pete Reed Alex Partridge Andrew Triggs Hodge	5:43.75	Germany Gregor Hauffe Toni Seifert Urs Käufer Filip Adamski	5:44.64	Netherlands Geert Cirkel Jan-Willem Gabriëls Matthijs Vellenga Gijs Vermeulen	5:45.54
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
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 Niccolò Mornati Luca Agamennoni Alessio Sartori Mario Palmisano Dario Dentale Pierpaolo Frattini Carlo Mornati Gaetano Iannuzzi	5:23.29	United States Paul Daniels Matt Deakin Steven Coppola Kenneth Jurkowski Giuseppe Lanzone Daniel Walsh Beau Hoopman Marcus McElhenney Christopher Liwski	5:24.14
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Great Britain Zac Purchase	6:47.82	Spain Juan Zunzunegui Guimerans	6:50.14	New Zealand Duncan Grant	6:52.73
LM2x	Denmark Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist Hansen	6:11.42	Italy Marcello Miani Elia Luini	6:14.90	France Fabrice Moreau Frédéric Dufour	6:15.94
LM2-	Germany Ole Rückbrodt Felix Otto	6:28.41	Spain Juan Manuel Florido Pellón Jesús González Álvarez	6:30.17	Italy Andrea Caianiello Salvatore Di Somma	6:30.64
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 Rémi Di Girolamo	5:57.42
LM4-	China Huang Zhongming Wu Chongkui Lin Zhang Tian Jun	5:49.43	France Franck Solforosi Jérémy Pouge Jean-Christophe Bette Fabien Tilliet	5:51.26	Ireland Gearoid Towey Eugene Coakley Richard Archibald Paul Griffin	5:51.35
LM8+	Italy Luigi Scala Giorgio Tuccinardi Livio La Padula Franco Sancassani Martino Goretti Michele Savrie Jiri Vlcek Fabrizio Gabriele Andrea Lenzi	5:36.35	Germany Marc Rippel Christian Scherhag Björn Steinfurth Alexander Bernhardt Jost Schömann-Finck Matthias Schömann-Finck Lutz Ackermann Matthias Veit Felix Erdmann	5:38.48	Poland Tomasz Kowalik Łukasz Siemion Mariusz Stańczuk Jarosław Bielaszewski Szymon Wiśniewski Maciej Madej Łukasz Pawłowski Cezary Mrozowicz Rafał Woźniak	5:38.71

Women

  Non-Olympic classes

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
W1x	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch	7:11.02	Czech Republic Miroslava Knapková	7:15.02	Sweden Frida Svensson	7:18.35
W2x	Australia Elizabeth 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
W2-	Canada Darcy Marquardt Jane Thornton	6:54.68	New Zealand Juliette Haigh Nicky Coles	6:56.72	Germany Nicole Zimmerman Elke Hipler	6:57.11
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
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
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
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Netherlands Marit van Eupen	7:32.26	Germany Berit Carow	7:33.61	Spain Teresa Mas De Xaxars	7:34.98
LW2x	China Xu Dongxiang Yan Shimin	6:55.12	Australia Marguerite Houston Amber Halliday	6:56.57	Greece Chrysi Biskitzi Alexandra Tsiavou	6:57.14
LW4x	China Yu Hua Chen Haixia Fan Xuefei Liu Jing	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

Pararowing

The Pararowing classes were held over 1000 metres.

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
AM1x[2]	Australia Dominic Monypenny	5:28,87	United States Ronald Harvey	5:41,83	Great Britain Shaun Sewell	5:55,23
AW1x[3]	Great Britain Helene Raynsford	6:14,87	United States Patricia Rollison	6:23,10	Poland Martyna Snopek	6:25,67
TA2x[4]	United States Scott Brown Angela Madsen	4:20,50	Poland Jolanta Pawlak Piotr Majka		Canada Caitlin Renneson Wilfredo More Wilson	4:30,86
LTAMx4+[5]	Great Britain Naomi Riches Vicki Hansford Alastair McKean Alan Crowther Alan Sherman (cox)	3:28,21	Netherlands Joleen Hakker Trees Blankennagel Paul de Jong Martin Lauriks Tonia Harmsen (cox)	3:32,62	Canada Anthony Theriault Karen van Nest Meghan Montgomery John Moorcroft Emma Ferguson (cox)	3:35,19

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	3	7	2	12
2	Australia	3	2	1	6
3	China	3	1	0	4
4	Great Britain	3	0	2	5
5	Italy	2	3	1	6
6	New Zealand	1	2	3	6
7	Canada	1	1	2	4
	France	1	1	2	4
9	Denmark	1	1	0	2
10	United States	1	0	2	3
11	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
	Poland	1	0	1	2
13	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Serbia and Montenegro	1	0	0	1
15	Spain	0	2	1	3
16	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
17	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
19	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Ireland	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		23	23	23	69