Aleksandr Ivanik had the following podium finishes at the Flatwater World Championships: 1st 1993 K4 500 m (with Viktor Denisov, Anatoly Tishchenko, and Oleg Goroby), 1st 1997 K4 200 m (with Anatoly Tishchenko, Oleg Goroby, and Sergey Verlin), 1st 2001 K4 500 m (with Roman Zarubin, Andrey Tissin, and the non-Olympian Denis Turchenkov), 2nd 1999 K2 200 m (with Roman Zarubin), 2nd 1999 K4 500 m (with Andrey Tissin, Roman Zarubin, and the non-Olympian Vitaly Gankin), 2nd 2001 K4 200 m (with Roman Zarubin, Oleg Goroby, and the non-Olympian Denis Turchenkov), 3rd 1993 K4 1000 m (with Viktor Denisov, Anatoly Tishchenko, and Oleg Goroby), 3rd 1998 K4 1000 m (with Anatoly Tishchenko, Sergey Verlin, and Georgy Tsybulnikov), 3rd 2001 K4 1000 m (with Roman Zarubin, Oleg Goroby, and the non-Olympian Denis Turchenkov), 3rd 2003 K4 500 m (with Anatoly Tishchenko, Oleg Goroby, and Vladimir Grushikhin).