Martin Marinov

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Bronze	1988 Seoul	C-1 500 m
Bronze	1992 Barcelona	C-2 500 m
World Championships
Silver	1987 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
Bronze	1989 Plovdiv	C-1 500 m
Bronze	1990 Poznań	C-1 500 m
Bronze	1994 Mexico City	C-2 500 m
Bronze	1995 Duisburg	C-2 200 m

Martin Marinov (Bulgarian: Мартин Маринов, born October 25, 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Australian flatwater canoer who competed from the late 1980s and the mid 2000s. A former "Mr Bulgaria" he won two Olympic medals for that country in the Canadian canoeing 500 m events.

In Seoul in 1988 he was the bronze medalist in the C-1 500 m. Four years later in Barcelona he and teammate Blagovest Stoyanov won bronze in the C-2 500 m. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Marinov and Stojanov reached both C-2 finals, finishing fourth in the 1000 m and fifth in the 500 m events, respectively.

Marinov later emigrated and represented Australia. He retired after the 2004 Summer Olympics where he was eliminated in the C-1 500 m semi-final.

He also won five ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with a silver (C-1 1000 m: 1987) and four bronzes (C-1 500 m: 1989, 1990; C-2 200 m: 1995, C-2 500 m: 1994).

In October 2006, Marinov was appointed as Head Coach of the AIS Canoe/Kayak Program.

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

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Name	Marinov, Martin
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Date of birth	October 25, 1967
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