Kaisar Nurmaganbetov is a Kazakhstani sprint canoer who has competed since 1995. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-2 500 m and the C-2 1000 m events. Four years later, Nurmaganbetov again reached the semifinals, in the C-1 500 m and the C-1 1000 m events but that is where he was eliminated. He was eliminated in the semifinals of those same events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. For his most recent Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nurmaganbetov was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 500 m event.
Roman Zarubin is a Russian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, three silvers, and three bronzes.
Ognjen Filipović is a Serbian sprint canoer who competed for Serbia and Montenegro and later Serbia. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds, a silver K-4 200 m: 2007 for Serbia), and three bronzes.
Emanuel Eduardo Pimenta Vieira da Silva, GOIH, is a Portuguese sprint canoer. He was born in Braga. A finalist at the 2004 Olympics and medalist at the 2012 Olympics, he is Portugal's most successful kayak sprinter since the 1980s.
The men's K-4 1000 metres event was a fours kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme on Lake Sagami, Japan. This event debuted at these games and is only one of two events that has been at every ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.
Herbert Laabs is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1970s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, two silvers, and two bronzes.
Sergey Kalesnik is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds and three silvers.
Dmitry Matveyev is a Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in East Berlin.
Vladimir Grushikin is an Armenian-Russian sprint canoeist who competed for Armenia in the early 2000s before competing for Russia in the mid-2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m at the 2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Gainesville for Russia.
Arnaud Hybois is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds, a silver and two bronze.
Declan Burns is an Irish canoe sprinter who competed from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was eliminated in the repechages of both the K-2 500 m and the K-4 1000 m events. Four years later in Moscow, Burns was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 500 m event. At his third and final Summer Olympics in Seoul, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event.
Ian Pringle is an Irish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He was eliminated in the repechages of both the K-2 1000 m and the K-4 1000 m events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Four years later in Moscow, Pringle was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 1000 m event. At his third and final Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m events.
Helmut Lehmann is a Swiss sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1980s. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m events. Four years later in Los Angeles, Lehmann was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event and the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event.
Antoon De Brauwer is a Belgian canoe sprinter who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and K-1 1000 m events. Eight years later in Barcelona, De Brauwer was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event and the repechages of the K-2 500 m event.
Patrick Holmes is an Irish canoe sprinter who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 1000 m and K-2 500 m events. Four years later in Barcelona, Holmes was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m events.
John MacDonald is a New Zealand sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years later in Barcelona, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and K-1 1000 m events.
Tony Gill Lespoir is a Seychellois sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event and the heats of the K-1 1000 m event. Four years later in Beijing, Lespoir was eliminated in the heats in both the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m events.
Kasper Bleibach is a Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event. In 2008 he also won the K1 500m at Canoe Sprint European Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the K-1 200 m event, but reached the final of the K-4 1000 m event, finishing in fifth. That year, he was also part of the winning team the K-4 1000 m at the European Championships.
Henriette Engel Hansen is a world champion Danish canoe sprinter and marathon canoeist. She and team-mate Emma Aastrand Jørgensen won the K-2 1000 m title at the 2014 World Championships.
Alexey Viktorovich Dergunov is a Kazakhstani canoe sprinter who won a gold and a silver medal in doubles at the 2014 Asian Games. Earlier at the 2008 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing with Yevgeny Alekseyev, he was knocked out in the first round of the K-2 200 m but reached the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m. At the 2016 Rio Games he failed to reach the finals of the K-1 200 m and K-2 1000 m events.
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