Career
Rauhe was selected for the 1997 World Junior Championships in Lahti, Finland at the age of just fifteen years nine months. 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 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).
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.
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).
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.