Tim Wieskötter

Tim Wieskötter, born 12 March 1979 in Emsdetten) is a German flatwater canoer, and current (2007) world champion in the K-2 Kayak 500m events.

Wieskötter won a bronze medal in the K-2 500m at the Sydney Olympics with team-mate Ronald Rauhe.

Since then they have completely dominated the event, winning the major race of the season every year - six world championships (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007) and the Olympic gold medal at Athens in 2004. They have also won seven consecutive European gold medals. In addition, Rauhe and Wieskötter hold the K-2 500m world record of 1:26.971 (Szeged, 2002).

In 2006 Rauhe and Wieskötter doubled up for the first time, defending their 500m titles and also adding the K2 200m gold medals at both the European and World Championships.

External links

* [http://www.timwieskoetter.de Official website]