Personal information | |
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Nationality | Ukrainian |
Born | [1] Kyiv, Ukraine | 7 May 1994
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Sport | |
Country | Ukraine |
Sport | Canoe sprint |
Medal record |
Yurii Vandiuk (born 7 May 1994) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist. [2] He is 2021 world champion, a silver medalists of the 2018 World Championships [3] and a bronze medalist of the 2022 World Championships. He is also a silver medalist of the 2018 European Championships.
Adam Joseph van Koeverden is a Canadian sprint kayaker and politician. He is an Olympic gold medallist in the K-1 500m category (2004) and a two-time world champion in K-1 500 (2007) and K-1 1000 (2011), winning four Olympic and eight world championship medals. His home club is the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario.
Birgit Fischer is a German former kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich and Isabell Werth, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East Germany, then four times representing the reunited nation. After both the 1988 and 2000 games, she announced her retirement, only to return for the subsequent games. She has been both the youngest- and oldest-ever Olympic canoeing champion. In 2004, she was chosen as the German sportswoman of the year.
Daniele Scarpa is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events.
Erik Vlček is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He is a member of the Hungarian community in Slovakia.
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Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox is a French-born Australian Program and Policy Officer and world and Olympic champion slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008.
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