Thomas Loose

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Thomas Loose
Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
World Championships
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1989 Savage River C2
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice C2 team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1989 Savage River C2 team
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1991 Tacen C2 team

Thomas Loose (born 19 January 1964 in Bottrop) is a West German-German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won a gold medal for West Germany in the C2 event at the 1989 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Savage River, Maryland in the United States. He also won three bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in the C2 team event (1987, 1989, 1991).

Loose competed for Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, finishing 13th in the C2 event.

His partner in the boat throughout the whole of his career was Frank Hemmer.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
1989 15 Aug 1989 Augsburg 3rdC2
1992 31 May 1992 Nottingham 2ndC2

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