Medal record | ||
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Men's slalom canoeing | ||
Representing East Germany | ||
World Championships | ||
1963 Spittal | Folding K-1 team | |
1963 Spittal | Folding K-1 | |
1965 Spittal | K-1 team |
Rolf Luber is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (Folding K-1 team: 1963) and two silvers (Folding K-1: 1963, K-1 team: 1965).
Canoe slalom is a competitive sport with the aim to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of hanging downstream or upstream gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible. It is one of the two kayak and canoeing disciplines at the Summer Olympics, and is referred to by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Canoe/Kayak Slalom. The other Olympic canoeing discipline is canoe sprint. Wildwater canoeing is a non-Olympic paddlesport.
Friederike "Fritzi" Schwingl was an Austrian slalom and sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
The 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Spittal, Austria under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 8th edition. The women's folding K1 team event resumed after being absent from the program at 1961 championships.
Jean Engler is a retired Swiss slalom canoeist who competed in the 1940s and the 1950s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds, a silver and a bronze.
Hans Frühwirth is a retired Austrian slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a two golds and two silvers.
Rudolf Pillwein is a retired Austrian slalom canoeist who competed in the 1940s and the 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold and two silvers.
Sigi Holzbauer is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1950s. He won two gold medals at the 1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen, earning them in the folding K-1 event and the folding K-1 team event.
Manfred Vogt is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1950s and the 1960s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds and two bronzes.
Eberhard Gläser is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. He won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with five golds and three silvers.
Jiří Černý is a retired Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a silver and two bronzes.
Jürgen Bremer is an East German retired slalom canoeist who competed from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, with three golds and a silver.
Heidi Pillwein is a retired Austrian slalom canoeist who competed in the 1940s and the 1950s. She won three gold medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earning them in 1949 and 1951.
Eva Setzkorn is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds, three silvers and a bronze.
Karin Tietze is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1950s. She won two medals at the 1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen with a gold in the folding K-1 team event and a silver in the folding K-1 event.
Anneliese Bauer is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold and two silvers.
Ludmila Polesná was a Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with four golds, five silvers and two bronzes.
Ursula Gläser is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. She won five medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with four golds and a silver.
Jana Zvěřinová is a Czechoslovak retired slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1961 to 1969.
Lia Schilhuber is a retired East German-Austrian slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s. She won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, with two golds and two silvers.
The Wildwater Canoeing World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every two year from 1959 to 1995 and than from 1996 to 2001, from 2011 the event is annual.