Helmut Oblinger

Helmut Oblinger

Helmut Oblinger (2009)
Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
Representing Austria
World Championships
	2003 Augsburg	K1
European Championships
	2005 Tacen	K1
	2002 Bratislava	K1
	1996 Augsburg	K1 team
	2012 Augsburg	K1 team

Helmut Oblinger (born 14 March 1973 in Schärding) is an Austrian slalom canoeist who competed from the early 1990s to 2015.

He won a bronze medal in the K1 event at the 2003 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg. He also has four medals from the European Championships (1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronzes). Oblinger also competed at five Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K1 event in Sydney in 2000.

His wife, Violetta, won a bronze medal in the women's K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

World Cup individual podiums

				Total
K1	2	5	4	11

Season	Date	Venue	Position	Event
1998	13 September 1998	La Seu d'Urgell	2nd	K1
2000	2 July 2000	Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre	2nd	K1
	9 July 2000	La Seu d'Urgell	2nd	K1
2001	3 June 2001	Merano	2nd	K1
	10 June 2001	Tacen	3rd	K1
	28 July 2001	Augsburg	3rd	K1
2002	26 May 2002	Guangzhou	1st	K1
2004	25 April 2004	Athens	3rd	K1
	23 May 2004	La Seu d'Urgell	3rd	K1
2005	26 June 2005	Tacen	1st	K11
2006	3 June 2006	Augsburg	2nd	K1

¹ European Championship counting for World Cup points

References

• Beijing2008 profile
• 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)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Helmut Oblinger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2010-01-29.
• Helmut Oblinger at Olympedia