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.
Maksim Alexandrovich Opalev is a retired Russian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won a complete set of medals in the C-1 500 m event.
Ivans Klementjevs is a Soviet-born Latvian politician and former sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won three Olympic medals in C-1 1000 m at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. The highlight was the gold medal in 1988, which he won as a competitor for the USSR. He trained at Trudovye Rezervy and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Riga when Latvia was part of the Soviet Union.
Toma Simionov is a retired Romanian canoe sprinter, who competed in doubles together with his elder brother Gheorghe and later with Ivan Patzaichin. He won three Olympic medals with two gold and one silver (1984). He also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds, four silvers, and two bronzes.
Antonel Borșan is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. He won an Olympic silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event with Marcel Glăvan.
Wojciech Tyszyński is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since 2003. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, including a gold and two bronzes.
Grzegorz Leon Kotowicz is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). In his career, Kotowicz garnered two Olympic medals, eight World Championship medals, and five European Championship medals.
Jan Brzák-Felix was a Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoeist from Prague who competed from the mid-1930s to the early 1950s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the C-2 1000 m event, including two golds and a silver (1952).
Bohumil Kudrna was a Czechoslovak flatwater and slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with Jan Brzák-Felix in the C-2 1000 m event with a gold in 1948 and a silver in 1952.
Ulrich Papke is an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with a gold in the C-2 1000 m event and a silver in the C-2 500 m event.
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.
Bohuslav Karlík was a Czechoslovak flatwater and slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the silver in the C-1 1000 m event at Berlin in 1936.
Tibor Tatai is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won the gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Mirko Nišović is a Serbian retired sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Los Angeles in 1984 with a gold in the C-2 500 m and a silver in the C-2 1000 m events, in team with Matija Ljubek.
Gyula Petrikovics was a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he won a silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event.
Leobaldo Pereira Pulido is a Cuban sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. He won the silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Matthias Röder (born 4 February 1972 is a German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1990s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold and two bronzes.
Engelbert Lulla is an Austrian canoe sprinter who competed in the early 1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon. Lulla also finished sixth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Attila Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1987 to 1995. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds, five silvers, and one bronze.
Tomáš Křivánek is a Czechoslovak-Czech sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, a silver and three bronzes.
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