- Christian Gille
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens C-2 1000 m Silver 2008 Beijing C-2 1000 m Bronze 2008 Beijing C-2 500 m World Championships Gold 1997 Dartmouth C-2 200 m Gold 1998 Szeged C-2 200 m Gold 2005 Zagreb C-2 500 m Gold 2005 Zagreb C-2 1000 m Gold 2007 Duisburg C-2 1000 m Silver 2005 Zagreb C-2 200 m Silver 2006 Szeged C-2 200 m Silver 2007 Duisburg C-2 200 m Bronze 1995 Duisburg C-4 1000 m Bronze 1997 Dartmouth C-2 500 m Bronze 1998 Szeged C-2 500 m Bronze 1999 Milan C-2 200 m Bronze 2002 Seville C-1 200 m Bronze 2007 Duisburg C-2 500 m Christian Gille (born 6 January 1979 in Wolfen) is a German flatwater canoer who has competed since the mid 1990s.
A junior world champion (C-4 1000 m) in 1993, he won two senior world championship gold medals with Thomas Zereske in the C-2 200 m sprint in 1997 and 1998. They also competed at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, placing fifth in the C-2 500 m final.
In 2002 Gille won the only C-1 world championship medal of his career. He crossed the line in fourth place in the C-1 200 m final in Seville, Spain, but was later awarded the bronze medal after Ukrainian Dmytro Sablin tested positive for cannabis.[citation needed] Of more significance for the future however was the formation that year of a new C-2 partnership with 19-year-old Tomasz Wylenzek. They finished third in the European Championships and seventh in the C-2 500 m in Seville.
Two years later they won a surprise gold medal in the C-2 1000m. Gille wore a black armband in memory of his former partner Thomas Zereske who had died earlier that summer.
In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event. A clean sweep of medals (200 m, 500 m and 1000 m) at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500m and 1000m) at the World Championships in Zagreb.
2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years. Replaced by Stefan Holtz and Robert Nuck as Germany's C-2 500 m representatives, they were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance. They also lost their other titles in competition, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships (European C-2 1000 m and world C-2 200 m), compared with the five golds of 2005.
Gille won two more Olympic medals at Beijing in 2008 with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events.
Gille is a member of the Leipzig club. He is 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall and weighs 87 kilograms (190 lb).
References
- 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
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Pairs 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 484.
Olympic Canoeing Champions in Men's C-2 1000 m 1936: Czechoslovakia (Vladimír Syrovátka, Jan Brzák-Felix) • 1948: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix, Bohumil Kudrna) • 1952: Denmark (Bent Peder Rasch, Finn Haunstoft) • 1956: Romania (Alexe Dumitru, Simion Ismailciuc) • 1960: Soviet Union (Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko) • 1964: Soviet Union (Andrei Khimich, Stepan Oshchepkov) • 1968: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Serghei Covaliov) • 1972: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas, Yuri Lobanov) • 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Petrenko, Aleksandr Vinogradov) • 1980 – 1984: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Toma Simionov) • 1988: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky, Nicolae Juravschi) • 1992: Germany (Ulrich Papke, Ingo Spelly) • 1996: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach, Andreas Dittmer) • 2000: Romania (Mitică Pricop, Florin Popescu) • 2004: Germany (Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek) • 2008: Belarus (Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich)
1994: Belarus (Aleksandr Maseikov & Dmitri Dovgalenok) * 1995: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1997: Germany (Thomas Zereske & Christian Gille) * 1998: Germany (Thomas Zereske & Christian Gille) * 1999: Russia (Konstantin Fomichev & Aleksandr Artemida) * 2001: Poland (Paweł Baraszkiewicz & Daniel Jędraszko) * 2002: Cuba (Ibrahim Rojas & Ledis Balceiro) * 2003: Poland (Paweł Baraszkiewicz & Daniel Jędraszko) * 2005: Russia (Evgeny Ignatov & Nikolay Lipkin) * 2006: Russia (Evgeny Ignatov & Ivan Shtyl) * 2007: Russia (Evgeny Ignatov & Ivan Shtyl) * 2009: Lithuania (Tomas Gadeikis & Raimundas Labuckas) * 2010: Lithuania (Raimundas Labuckas & Tomas Gadeikis) * 2011: Lithuania (Raimundas Labuckas & Tomas Gadeikis)1971: Romania (Gheorghe Danielov & Gheorghe Simionov) * 1973: Soviet Union (Oleg Kaidov & Vitaliy Slobodenyuk) * 1974: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Vinogradov & Yuri Lobanov) * 1975: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Vinogradov & Yuri Lobanov) * 1977: Hungary (László Foltán & István Vaskuti) * 1978: Hungary (László Foltán & István Vaskuti) * 1979: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Istvan Capusta) * 1981: Hungary (László Foltán & István Vaskuti) * 1982: Yugoslavia (Matija Ljubek & Mirko Nišović) * 1983: Yugoslavia (Matija Ljubek & Mirko Nišović) * 1985: Hungary (János Sarsui Kis & István Vaskuti) * 1986: Hungary (János Sarsui Kis & István Vaskuti) * 1987: Poland (Marek Łbik & Marek Dopierała) * 1989: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky & Nicolae Juravschi) * 1990: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky & Nicolae Juravschi) * 1991: Hungary (Attila Pálizs & Attila Szabó) * 1993: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1994: Romania (Gheorghe Andriev & Grigore Obreja) * 1995: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1997: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1998: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1999: Poland (Daniel Jędraszko & Paweł Baraszkiewicz) * 2001: Cuba (Ibrahim Rojas & Leobaldo Pereira) * 2002: Cuba (Ibrahim Rojas & Ledis Balceiro) * 2003: Poland (Paweł Baraszkiewicz & Daniel Jędraszko) * 2005: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2006: Russia (Aleksandr Kostoglod & Sergey Ulegin) * 2007: Hungary (György Kozmann & György Kolonics) * 2009: Germany (Stefan Holtz & Robert Nuck) * 2010: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi) * 2011: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi)1938: Germany (Rupert Weinstabl & Karl Proisl) * 1950: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix & Bohumil Kudrna) * 1954: Austria (Kurt Liebhart & Engelbert Lulla) * 1958: Romania (Alexe Dumitru & Simion Ismailciuc) * 1963: Romania (Achim Sidorov & Alexe Iacovici) * 1966: Romania (Vicol Calabiciov & Serghei Covaliov) * 1970: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov) * 1971: Hungary (Tamás Wichmann & Gyula Petrikovics) * 1973: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov) * 1974: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov) * 1975: Hungary (Gábor Arva & Péter Povázsay) * 1977: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov) * 1978: Hungary (Tamás Buday & Oszkár Frey) * 1979: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov) * 1981: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov) * 1982: Hungary (János Sarsui Kis & Gyula Hajdu) * 1983: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov) * 1985: East Germany (Olaf Heukrodt & Alexander Schuck) * 1986: Hungary (János Sarsui Kis & István Vaskuti) * 1987: Soviet Union (Yuriy Gurin & Valeriy Veshko) * 1989: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson) * 1990: East Germany (Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly) * 1991: Germany (Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly) * 1993: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson) * 1994: Germany (Andreas Dittmer & Gunar Kirchbach) * 1995: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1997: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach & Matthias Röder) * 1998: Russia (Aleksandr Kovalyov & Aleksandr Kostoglod) * 1999: Russia (Aleksandr Kovalyov & Aleksandr Kostoglod) * 2001: Poland (Marcin Kobierski & Michał Śliwiński) * 2002: Poland (Marcin Kobierski & Michał Śliwiński) * 2003: Romania (Silviu Simioncencu & Florin Popescu) * 2005: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2006: Hungary (György Kozmann & György Kolonics) * 2007: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2009: Germany (Erik Leue & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2010: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi) * 2011: Germany (Stefan Holtz & Tomasz Wylenzek)This article about a German canoeist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a German Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.