Host nation Hungary won twelve of the twenty-seven gold medals. Germany, who had topped the medal table in
Zagreb in 2005, took four golds, as did Russia. Hungary's medal haul included victories in all nine women's finals,
Natasa Janics and
Katalin Kovács winning six titles each. In the men's races, Mexican
Everardo Cristóbal shocked the top Europeans with victory in the C-1 1000 m final, giving Mexico their first-ever world championship gold medal. The K-1 1000 m, the
Blue Riband event, was won by
Markus Oscarsson of Sweden. Germany's
Ronald Rauhe won three gold medals to give him a career total of ten.
Hungarian György Kolonics, who holds the (men's) record for paddlers currently in competition, won the fourteenth gold medal of his career in the C-2 1000 m final. Russia's
Maksim Opalev won his eleventh title. Other perennial favourites such as
Andreas Dittmer,
Eirik Verås Larsen and
Adam van Koeverden however were unable to repeat previous successes. Germany won their first-ever C-4 title (1000 m). In the men's K-4 races, however, no German boats made the podium – the first time that had happened since
1977. Special mention should also go to the
Czech Petr Procházka, the oldest man at the championships, who took gold in the C-4 200 m final. ==Medal summary==