Detlef Schmidt

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Detlef Schmidt
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Detlef Schmidt (born 24 February 1958) is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1980s. He won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1986 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montreal.

Schmidt also finished eighth in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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