- Milko Kazanov
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint Olympic Games Bronze 1996 Atlanta K-2 1000 m World Championships Bronze 2002 Seville K-4 1000 m Milko Georgiev Kazanov (Bulgarian: Милко Георгиев Казанов, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996.
Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville.
He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in 1999 and bronze (K-4 1000 m) in Poznań in 2000.
Kazanov is 186 cm (6ft 1in) tall and weighs 86 kg (190 lbs). He is now a member of the Levski Canoe/Kayak Club club in Sofia.
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
Categories:- 1970 births
- Bulgarian canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Bulgaria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Bulgarian canoeist stubs
- Bulgarian Olympic medalist stubs
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