Martin Doktor
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Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | C-1 500 m |
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1996 Atlanta | C-1 1000 m |
World Championships | ||
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1997 Dartmouth | C-1 500 m |
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1998 Szeged | C-1 200 m |
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1995 Dusiburg | C-1 500 m |
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1995 Dusiburg | C-1 1000 m |
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1997 Dartmouth | C-1 200 m |
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1997 Dartmouth | C-1 1000 m |
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1998 Szeged | C-1 1000 m |
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1999 Milan | C-1 200 m |
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1999 Milan | C-1 500 m |
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2001 Poznań | C-1 1000 m |
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2003 Gainesville | C-1 200 m |
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1998 Szeged | C-4 1000 m |
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1999 Milan | C-1 1000 m |
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2003 Gainesville | C-1 500 m |
Martin Doktor (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmarcɪn ˈdoktor]; born 21 May 1974 in Polička, Czechoslovakia) is the Czech Republic's best-known sprint canoeist. He was double Olympic champion in the Canadian canoe C-1 discipline at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. During the 1996 games, his mother cooked knedliky (Dumplings in Czech), using dozens of kg of flour brought over from the Czech Republic.
Doktor went on to win 14 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, including two golds (C-1 200 m: 1998, C-1 500 m: 1997), nine silvers (C-1 200 m: 1997, 1999, 2003; C-1 500 m: 1995, 1999; C-1 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), and three bronzes (C-1 500 m: 2003, C-1 1000 m: 1999, C-4 1000 m: 1998). He was also European C-1 1000 m champion in 1997 and 2000.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics Doktor was unfortunate not to add to his medal tally, coming in fourth in the C-1 1000 m final and fifth in the C-1 500 m.
His most recent medal success came at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, where he won the C-1 200 m silver medal.
Doktor, nicknamed Boban, remains one of canoeing's most consistent performers. At the 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships he entered all three C-1 events, reaching the final in each. He finished fourth in the 200 m, fifth in the 500 m, and eighth in the 1000 m.
He is 178 cm (5'10") tall and weighs 78 kg (172 lbs).
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Martin Doktor at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 479, 481.
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Polička
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Czech male canoeists
- Olympic canoeists of the Czech Republic
- Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from the Pardubice Region