Slovak slalom canoeist (born 1975)

Roman Vajs (born 18 November 1975 in Liptovský Mikuláš) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1990 to 2004.

Vajs won two medals in the C2 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a silver in 1999 and a bronze in 1993. He won the overall World Cup *le in the C2 cl* in 1998. He also won 3 medals at the European Championships (1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze).

Vajs finished 13th in the C2 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

His partner in the C2 boat until 2000 was Roman Štrba, who was paralyzed in an accident in March 2001. In the years after Štrba's accident, Vajs teamed up with Pavol Hric who had competed in K1 until then.

World Cup individual podiums

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