Marcus Walz
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Full name | Marcus Cooper Walz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | English Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Oxford, England | 3 October 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Sprint kayak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Reial Club Nàutic Portopetro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marcus Cooper Walz (born 3 October 1994) is an English born-Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed internationally since the early 2010s. He won the gold medal in the K-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[1] He won the silver medal in the Men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade.
Born in Oxford to an English mother and a German father, the family established in Mallorca when Walz was 3 months old.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Marcus Walz". Rio 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "De Oxford a Mallorca: Marcus Cooper Walz se hace con el oro en la modalidad K1 de 1000 metros". El Español. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
External links[]
- Marcus Walz at the International Canoe Federation
- Marcus Walz at the International Olympic Committee
- Marcus Walz at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1994 births
- Living people
- English emigrants to Spain
- Spanish male canoeists
- Spanish people of German descent
- Spanish people of English descent
- Olympic canoeists of Spain
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain
- Olympic silver medalists for Spain
- Sportspeople from Mallorca
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Oxford
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
- Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- European Games competitors for Spain
- Canoeists at the 2019 European Games