Roman Zarubin had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 1st 2001 K4 500 m (with Aleksandr Ivanik, Andrey Tissin, and the non-Olympian Denis Turchenkov), 2nd 1999 K2 200 m (with Aleksandr Ivanik), 2nd 1999 K4 500 m (with Andrey Tissin, Aleksandr Ivanik, and the non-Olympian Vitaly Gankin), 2nd 2001 K4 200 m (with Aleksandr Ivanik, Oleg Goroby, and the non-Olympian Denis Turchenkov), 3rd 1998 K4 500 m (with Andrey Tissin and the non-Olympians Andrey Shchegolikhin and Vitaly Gankin), 3rd 2001 K4 1000 m (with Aleksandr Ivanik, Oleg Goroby, and the non-Olympian Denis Turchenkov), 3rd 2009 K4 200 m (with Aleksandr Dyachenko, Stepan Shevchuk, and Sergey Khovansky).