- Marián Ostrčil
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint World Championships Silver 2007 Duisburg C-1 1000 m Bronze 2006 Szeged C-1 1000 m Bronze 2010 Poznań C-1 5000 m Marián Ostrčil (born October 15, 1980 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has been competing since 1998.
In 1998, in Nyköping, Sweden, he became European junior champion in the individual Canadian canoe (C-1) 500m. In 2002 he won the European under-23 championship in Zagreb, Croatia in the same event.
At the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Ostrčil won three medals with a silver (C-1 1000 m: 2006) and two bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 2007, C-1 5000 m: 2010). Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the C-1 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.
Ostrčil is 190 cm (6'3") tall and weighs 90 kg (198 lbs). He is a member of the AŠK Dukla club in Trenčín where he is coached by Atlanta silver medallist Slavomír Kňazovický.
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:- 1980 births
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Slovakia
- Slovak canoeists
- People from Bratislava
- Slovak canoeist stubs
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