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Sebastian Brendel
Personal information
Born12 March 1988 (1988-03-12) (age 36)
Schwedt, East Germany[1]
Height192 cm (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight92 kg (203 lb)[1]
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 0 0
World Championships 5 4 3
European Championships 5 1 0
European Games 1 0 0
Total 13 5 3
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro C-2 1000 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Duisburg C-1 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Moscow C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Moscow C-1 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2015 Milan C–1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2015 Milan C–1 5000 m
Silver medal – second place 2007 Duisburg C-4 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Duisburg C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Duisburg C–1 4x200 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Moscow C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Dartmouth C-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Poznań C-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Szeged C-1 4x200 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Belgrade C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2012 Zagreb C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2013 Montemor-o-Velho C-1 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Brandenburg C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Brandenburg C-1 5000 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Brandenburg C-1 500 m
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku C-1 1000 m

Sebastian Brendel (born 12 March 1988)[1] is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 2007. Brendel is the reigning Olympic champion in the C-1 1000 metres and C-2 1000 metres events.

Career

He has won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-4 500 m: 2007) and two bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 2009, 2010). He is the current world record holder in the C-1 1000m as of the 2014 ICF World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

Brendel won a Gold Medal at the 2012 London Olympics in canoeing's C-1 1,000 metres event for his country.[2] At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, he defended successfully this title [3] and added another one, at the C-2 1000 metres, together with Jan Vandrey. Germany won the gold medal in this category also in London, but with Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sebastian Brendel.
  1. ^ a b c d "Sebastian Brendel". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Germany's Sebastian Brendel wins canoe 1000m sprint". Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  3. ^ http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36689789. Retrieved 2016-08-16. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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