Tamás Buday Jr. is a Hungarian-born Canadian sprint canoer who competed from 1996 to 2006. He won three silver medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Buday was born in Budapest, Hungary.
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.
Mitică Pricop is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Sydney in 2000 with a gold in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events with Florin Popescu. The following year, they were double European champions over 500 m and 1000 m.
Petar Hristov Merkov is a Bulgarian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he who won two silver medals at Sydney in 2000. Prior to those games, Merkov was subjected to controversy for failing a doping test in Bulgaria which led to over a dozen canoeing nations petitioning the International Canoe Federation for an investigation, only to have Bulgarian officials stonewall on his behalf to compete. He would later refuse to attend the post-race press conference of K-1 1000 m in the wake of those allegations.
Ferenc Novák is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed from the early 1990s to 2006. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he won a gold medal in the C-2 500 m event with teammate Imre Pulai.
Aleksandr Viktorovich Kostoglod is a Soviet-born, Russian sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers and one bronze. Kostoglod is a six-time world champion gold medallist in the Canadian canoe (C) events.
Ledis Frank Balceiro Pajon is a Cuban sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.
Nikolay Lipkin is a Russian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2003. He received a four-year ban for steroid doping, and was stripped of a title he won in 2014 in Moscow.
Roman Kruglyakov is a Russian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds, one silver, and one bronze.
Paweł Baraszkiewicz is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. He has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Daniel Jędraszko.
Silviu Simioncencu is a Romanian sprint canoer and three-time world champion in the Canadian canoe events.
Adam Dariusz Seroczyński is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1997 to 2008. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. For his sport achievements, he received the Golden Cross of Merit in 2000.
Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.
The 2003 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held September 10–14, 2003 in Gainesville, Georgia, United States at Lake Lanier. Located north of Atlanta, this was also where the canoe sprint and rowing events for the 1996 Summer Olympics took place.
Sergey Ulegin is a Russian canoeist who has been competing since 2001 He won a silver in the men's C-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Nikolai Stepanovich Gorbachev was a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1970s. He won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Gábor Ivan is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 2000s. He won three medals at the 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with two gold and a silver. He also participated in 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint European Champion in Szeged and won two gold and a silver medal.
Petre Condrat is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-2000s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, a silver, and two bronzes.
Dmitriy Sabin is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the early 2000s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold and a bronze. Sabin also won a silver in the C-1 200 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville, but was disqualified for doping though he was allowed to compete at the following year's world championships.
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