Dana Chladek
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Birth name | Dana Chládková | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | December 27, 1963 Děčín, Czechoslovakia | (age 58)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dana Chladek (born Dana Chládková on December 27, 1963 in Děčín) is a Czechoslovak-born American (she was born in Czechoslovakia, but emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1968) slalom kayaker who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals in the K1 event with a silver in 1996 and a bronze in 1992.
Chladek also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with four silvers (K1: 1989, 1991; K1 team: 1989, 1993) and two bronzes (K1 team: 1987, 1991). In 1988 she won the inaugural edition of the World Cup series.
Currently, Dana Chladek is a coach and race director for the Potomac Whitewater Racing Center. Chladek and her team of coaches oversee whitewater training programs for young people who are intent on pursuing high levels of excellence, including Olympic and World Cup level competition. Chladek’s program is based on the Potomac River in the Washington D.C. area. Chladek’s hand-picked coaching team is the highest level provided in the United States.
World Cup individual podiums[]
Season | Date | Venue | Position | Event |
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1989 | 12 Aug 1989 | Mezzana | 2nd | K1 |
1990 | 1 Jul 1990 | Wausau | 2nd | K1 |
1990 | Savage River | 2nd | K1 | |
1991 | 30 Jun 1991 | Mezzana | 2nd | K1 |
References[]
- Potomac Whitewater Racing Center
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dana Chladek". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- 1963 births
- American female canoeists
- Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
- Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- American people of Czech descent
- Living people
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in canoeing
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in canoeing
- International whitewater paddlers
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- People from Děčín
- 21st-century American women
- American canoeist stubs
- American Olympic medalist stubs