Martin Marinov
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Olympic Games | ||
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1988 Seoul | C-1 500 m |
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1992 Barcelona | C-2 500 m |
World Championships | ||
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1987 Duisburg | C-1 1000 m |
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1989 Plovdiv | C-1 500 m |
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1990 Poznań | C-1 500 m |
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1994 Mexico City | C-2 500 m |
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1995 Duisburg | C-2 200 m |
Martin Marinov (Bulgarian: Мартин Маринов, born 25 October 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Australian flatwater canoeist who competed from the late 1980s and the mid-2000s (decade). A former "Mr Bulgaria" he won two Olympic medals for that country in the Canadian canoeing 500 m events.
Biography
In Seoul in 1988 he was the bronze medalist in the C-1 500 m. Four years later in Barcelona he and teammate Blagovest Stoyanov won bronze in the C-2 500 m. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Marinov and Stojanov reached both C-2 finals, finishing fourth in the 1000 m and fifth in the 500 m events, respectively.
Marinov later emigrated and represented Australia. He retired after the 2004 Summer Olympics where he was eliminated in the C-1 500 m semi-final.
He also won five ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with a silver (C-1 1000 m: 1987) and four bronzes (C-1 500 m: 1989, 1990; C-2 200 m: 1995, C-2 500 m: 1994).
In October 2006, Marinov was appointed as Head Coach of the AIS Canoe/Kayak Program.
References
- databaseOlympics.com profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-03-11)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). 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 2009-11-09)
- Martin Marinov at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Use dmy dates from January 2013
- 1967 births
- Australian male canoeists
- Bulgarian male canoeists
- Bulgarian emigrants to Australia
- Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Australia
- Olympic canoeists of Bulgaria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Australian canoeist stubs
- Bulgarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Bulgarian canoeist stubs