Sebastian Brendel

Sebastian Brendel
Personal information
Born 12 March 1988 (1988-03-12) (age 28)
Schwedt, East Germany[1]
Height 192 cm (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight 92 kg (203 lb)[1]
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 0 0
World Championships 5 4 3
European Championships 5 1 0
European Games 1 0 0
Total 13 5 3
Olympic Games
2012 London C-1 1000 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro C-1 1000 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro C-2 1000 m
World Championships
2013 Duisburg C-1 5000 m
2014 Moscow C-1 1000 m
2014 Moscow C-1 5000 m
2015 Milan C–1 1000 m
2015 Milan C–1 5000 m
2007 Duisburg C-4 500 m
2013 Duisburg C-1 1000 m
2013 Duisburg C–1 4x200 m
2014 Moscow C-1 500 m
2009 Dartmouth C-1 1000 m
2010 Poznań C-1 1000 m
2011 Szeged C-1 4x200 m
European Championships
2011 Belgrade C-1 1000 m
2012 Zagreb C-1 1000 m
2013 Montemor-o-Velho C-1 5000 m
2014 Brandenburg C-1 1000 m
2014 Brandenburg C-1 5000 m
2014 Brandenburg C-1 500 m
European Games
2015 Baku C-1 1000 m

Sebastian Brendel (born 12 March 1988)[1] is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 2007. Brendel is the reigning Olympic champion in the C-1 1000 metres and C-2 1000 metres events.

Career

He has won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-4 500 m: 2007) and two bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 2009, 2010). He is the current world record holder in the C-1 1000m as of the 2014 ICF World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

Brendel won a Gold Medal at the 2012 London Olympics in canoeing's C-1 1,000 metres event for his country.[2] At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, he defended successfully this title [3] and added another one, at the C-2 1000 metres, together with Jan Vandrey. Germany won the gold medal in this category also in London, but with Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sebastian Brendel". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Germany's Sebastian Brendel wins canoe 1000m sprint". Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36689789. Retrieved 2016-08-16. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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