Olaf Heukrodt

Olaf Heukrodt

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	C-1 500 m
	1980 Moscow	C-2 1000 m
	1988 Seoul	C-2 1000 m
	1980 Moscow	C-1 500 m
	1992 Barcelona	C-1 500 m
World Championships
	1981 Nottingham	C-1 500 m
	1982 Belgrade	C-1 500 m
	1985 Mechelen	C-1 500 m
	1985 Mechelen	C-2 1000 m
	1986 Montreal	C-1 500 m
	1987 Duisburg	C-1 500 m
	1987 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
	1981 Nottingham	C-2 1000 m
	1983 Tampere	C-2 1000 m
	1989 Plovdiv	C-1 500 m
	1991 Paris	C-4 1000 m
	1982 Belgrade	C-2 1000 m
	1991 Paris	C-1 500 m

Olaf Heukrodt (born 23 January 1962 in Magdeburg) is an East German-German canoer who from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

Competing in three Summer Olympics, Heukrodt won five medals with one gold (C-1 500 m: 1988), two silvers (C-2 1000 m: 1980, C-2 1000 m: 1988), and two bronzes (C-1 500 m: 1980, 1992).

Heukrodt also won 13 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (C-1 500 m: 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987; C-1 1000 m: 1987, C-2 1000 m: 1985), four silvers (C-1 500 m: 1989, C-2 1000 m: 1981, 1983; C-4 1000 m: 1991), and two bronzes (C-1 500 m: 1991, C-2 1000 m: 1982). In October 1986, he was awarded a Star of People's Friendship in gold (second class) for his sporting success.

Heukrodt was married to swimmer Birgit Meineke.

Other sources

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 21 January 2009). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)
• 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. p. 479.

External links

• Olaf Heukrodt at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 August 2007)
• Olaf Heukrodt at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)