- Olaf Winter
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta K-4 1000 m World Championships Bronze 1999 Milan K-2 1000 m Olaf Winter (born 18 July 1973 in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996.
Winter also won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1999 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan.
He represented the sports clubs WSV Einheit Neustrelitz, SC Neubrandenburg and KG Essen. He lives in Hattingen.
References
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile
Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-4 1000 m 1964: Soviet Union (Nikolai Chuzhikov, Anatoli Grishin, Vyacheslav Ionov, Volodymyr Morozov) • 1968: Norway (Steinar Amundsen, Tore Berger, Egil Søby, Jan Johansen) • 1972: Soviet Union (Yuri Filatov, Yuri Stetsenko, Volodymyr Morozov, Valeri Didenko) • 1976: Soviet Union (Sergei Chukhray, Aleksandr Degtyarev, Yuri Filatov, Volodymyr Morozov) • 1980: East Germany (Rüdiger Helm, Bernd Olbricht, Harald Marg, Bernd Duvigneau) • 1984: New Zealand (Grant Bramwell, Ian Ferguson, Paul MacDonald, Alan Thompson) • 1988: Hungary (Zsolt Gyulay, Ferenc Csipes, Sándor Hódosi, Attila Ábrahám) • 1992: Germany (Mario Von Appen, Oliver Kegel, Thomas Reineck, André Wohllebe) • 1996: Germany (Thomas Reineck, Olaf Winter, Detlef Hofmann, Mark Zabel) • 2000 – 2004: Hungary (Zoltán Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Ákos Vereckei, Gábor Horváth) • 2008: Belarus (Raman Piatrushenka, Aliaksei Abalmasau, Artur Litvinchuk, Vadzim Makhneu)
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