1. Knut Holmann (1968)

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Norwegian sprint canoer who won three Olympic gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney games.

2. Gert Fredriksson (1919)

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Swedish sprint canoer who won six gold medals between 1942 and 1964 and competed at four different Olympics.

3. Grant Kenny (1963)

Canoe Racer

Former Ironman athlete who won the 1980 Open Iron Man Championship, competed in two Summer Olympics and helped to create the Uncle Toby's Super Series. He is a member of...

4. Vladimir Parfenovich (1958)

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Belarusian canoer who won three gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and nine gold medals in World Championship competition.

5. Lisa Carrington (1989)

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New Zealand flatwater canoer who won gold in the women's K-1 200 meters at the 2012 Olympics and the 2011 and 2013 World Championships.

6. Tony Estanguet (1978)

Canoe Racer

French slalom canoeist who won gold medals in 2000, 2004, and in 2012 in London, all in the C-1 event.

7. Birgit Fischer (1962)

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German kayaker who became an eight-time gold medalist spanning six different Olympic Games.

8. Saúl Craviotto (1984)

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Sprint kayaker who has won multiple Olympic medals, including gold in the K-2 500 meters in 2012 and 2016. He won three straight ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in the K-1 4×200...

9. Adam van Koeverden (1982)

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Kayaker who won the gold medal in the K-1 500m event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He set a world record in the same event at the 2008...

10. Anne-Laure Viard (1981)

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French sprint canoer who won a bronze medal in the K-2 500 meter event at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

11. Markus Oscarsson (1977)

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Markus Oscarsson is a Swedish sprint kayaker who has competed since 1995. Competing in four Summer Olympics he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a gold...

12. Sergey Verlin (1974)

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Sergey Verlin is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s.

13. Florin Popescu (1974)

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Popescu is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won two Olympic medals at Sydney in 2000 with teammate Mitică...

14. Aleksandr Kostoglod (1974)

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Aleksandr Viktorovich Kostoglod is a Soviet-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics he won three medals with two silvers and one...

15. Martin Doktor (1974)

Canoe Racer

Martin Doktor is the Czech Republic's best-known sprint canoer. He was double Olympic champion in the Canadian canoe C-1 discipline at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

16. Roman Vartolomeu (1950)

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Roman Vartolomeu is a Romanian flatwater canoer who competed in the early 1970s. He won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in...

17. Mikhail Kuznetsov (canoeist) (1985)

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Mikhail Nikolayevich Kuznetsov is a Russian slalom canoer who has competed since the early 2000s in the C-2 class together with his partner Dmitry Larionov. They won a bronze...

18. Stefan Ulm (1975)

Canoe Racer

Stefan Ulm is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event. Ulm also...

19. Nathan Baggaley (1975)

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Nathan Baggaley is an Australian sprint canoer and surfski champion. He is a three-times world champion in the K-1 500 m events and has also won two Olympic silver medals....

20. Ibrahim Rojas (1975)

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Ibrahim Rojas Blanco is a Cuban sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. In 2001 he and partner Leobaldo Pereira won Cuba's first-ever world championship gold...

21. Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov (1975)

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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed from 1997 to 2005. Having just missed out on a medal at the Sydney Olympics he and partner Aleksandr...

22. Botond Storcz (1975)

Canoe Racer

Botond Storcz is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004.

23. Manuela Mucke (1975)

Canoe Racer

Manuela Mucke is a German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

24. Ledis Balceiro (1975)

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Ledis Frank Balceiro Pajon is a Cuban sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. In 1995 Balceiro became the first-ever Cuban canoer to win a major international...

25. Erik Vlček (1981)

Canoe Racer

Erik Vlček is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s.

26. Stefan Henze (1981)

Canoe Racer

Stefan Henze is a German slalom canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. He won the silver medal in the C-2 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together...

27. Ion Bîrlădeanu (1958)

Canoe Racer

Ion Bîrlǎdeanu is a Romanian sprint kayaker who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980...

28. Alida van der Anker-Doedens (1922)

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Alida Geertruida Lida van der Anker-Doedens was a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics she won a silver medal...

29. Lucie Guay (1958)

Canoe Racer

Lucie Guay is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the early 1980s. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in...

30. Ferenc Varga (1925)

Canoe Racer

Varga is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1950s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in...

31. Thomas Ohlsson (1958)

Canoe Racer

Thomas Ohlsson is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000...

32. Guillermo del Riego (1958)

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Guillermo del Riego Gordón is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the K-2...

33. Patrick Lefoulon (1958)

Canoe Racer

Patrick Lefoulon is a French sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at...

34. Antonina Melnikova (1958)

Canoe Racer

Antonina Melnikova is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in...

35. Eckhard Leue (1958)

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Eckhard Leue is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow he won a bronze medal in...

36. Ferenc Mohácsi (1929)

Canoe Racer

Mohácsi is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event.

37. Per-Inge Bengtsson (1958)

Canoe Racer

Per-Inge Bengtsson is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 earning them in...

38. Agneta Andersson (1961)

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Agneta Monica Andersson is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.

39. Ingrid Hartmann (1930)

Canoe Racer

Ingrid Hartmann is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She won the K-2 500 m silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in...

40. Tove Søby (1933)

Canoe Racer

Tove Goltermann Søby is a Danish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1956 Summer Olympics...

41. Andrei Bahdanovich (1987)

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Andrei Bahdanovich is a Belarusian sprint canoer. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics together with Aliaksandr Bahdanovich. Bahadanovich also won two medals at the ICF...

42. Gábor Novák (1934)

Canoe Racer

Gábor Novák is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in...

43. Teneale Hatton (1990)

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Teneale Hatton is a New Zealand flatwater canoer. Hatton has two older brothers and moved from her hometown Queenstown to Auckland at the age of five. She attended Carmel College...

44. Günther Perleberg (1935)

Canoe Racer

Günther Perleberg is a German sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won two medals with a gold in the K-1 4 ×...

45. Lyudmila Pinayeva (1936)

Canoe Racer

Lyudmila Pinayeva-Khvedosyuk is a former Soviet sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

46. Martin Hollstein (1987)

Canoe Racer

Martin Hollstein is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he won the gold in the K-2 1000...

47. Renate Breuer (1939)

Canoe Racer

Renate Breuer is a West German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the...

48. Jiří Pecka (1917)

Canoe Racer

Jiří Pecka was a Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoer who competed from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a silver medal in the C-2 10000 m event at...

49. András Törő (1940)

Canoe Racer

András Törő is a Hungarian-American sprint canoer who competed from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. Competing in four Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000...

50. Roswitha Esser (1941)

Canoe Racer

Roswitha Esser is a West German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics she won two gold medals in the K-2...