Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe slalom | ||
Representing Austria | ||
World Championships | ||
1963 Spittal | C-2 team |
Franz Tutschka is an Austrian retired slalom canoeist who competed from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 team event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal. [1]
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