Ronald Rauhe

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Born

:02 Oct,1981

Age

:37 years, 10 months

Location

:Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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About Ronald Rauhe

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.

World Championship:

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.
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.