Fritz Briel

Fritz Briel

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
	1956 Melbourne	K-2 10000 m
World Championships
	1958 Prague	K-1 1000 m
	1958 Prague	K-1 4 x 500 m
	1963 Jajce	K-1 10000 m
	1966 East Berlin	K-1 10000 m

Fritz Briel (24 October 1934 – 15 March 2017) was a German sprint canoeist, born in Düsseldorf, who competed in from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Briel also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 1000 m: 1958, K-1 10000 m: 1963, K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958) and one bronze (K-1 10000 m: 1966).

References[]

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 21 January 2009). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Fritz Briel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.
• Fritz Briel's obituary (in German)

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