Andreas Dittmer is a German sprint canoeist. The dominant sprint canoeist of his generation in 1000 m races, he has won three Olympic and eight world championship gold medals.
Yuriy Volodymyrovych Cheban is a retired Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in C-1 200 metres.
Karel Aguilar Chacón is an athlete from Cuba. He competes in sprint canoeing.
Attila Vajda is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics he has won two medals in the C-1 1000 m event with a gold in 2008 and a bronze in 2004.
Antonio Rossi is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds, one silver, and one bronze.
Raman Ivanavich Piatrushenka or Roman Petrushenko is a Belarusian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold, one silver and two bronzes.
The 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia, in August 2005.
Tomasz Wylenzek is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov is a Russian sprint canoeist who has competed from 1997 to 2005.
Silviu Simioncencu is a Romanian sprint canoer and three-time world champion in the Canadian canoe events.
Milko Georgiev Kazanov is a Bulgarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996.
Lutz Altepost is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Beijing in 2008.
Maksym Serhiyovych Prokopenko is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani sprint canoeist who has competed since 2002.
Ingo Spelly is an East German-German canoe sprinter who competed from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold and two silvers.
Thomas Hall, is an Olympic sprint canoeist from Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada. Training with the Pointe-Claire Canoe Club, he began his international career in 1999, winning a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the Junior World Championships. By the time of the 2008 Summer Olympics, he had made a total of 44 top three finishes in international canoeing competitions, including 14 wins. Among these were a gold and a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. At the Beijing Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the Men's C-1 1000 metres event.
Andrzej Gronowicz is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 500 m event at Montreal in 1976.
Jerzy Janusz Opara is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. He was born in Warsaw. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 500 m event at Montreal in 1976. Opara also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers and two bronzes.
Marcel Renaud was a French sprint and slalom canoeist who competed in the 1940s and the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 10000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Renaud also won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships at Mâcon. In canoe slalom, he won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.
Adam Ginter is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the early first decade of the 21st century. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, a silver, and four bronzes.
Zhomart Satubaldin is a Kazakhstani sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-2000s. He won a bronze medal in the C-1 200 m event at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Zagreb.
