Paul Hoekstra
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Born | 30 December 1944 Enschede, the Netherlands | (age 77)|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TWV, Hengelo (NED) KCC Gent, Gent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paulus "Paul" Hoekstra (born 30 December 1944) is a Dutch-born, Belgian retired sprint canoeist who was active from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964. Hoekstra also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-2 500 m: 1971 for Belgium) and a bronze (K-1 500 m: 1966 for the Netherlands).
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- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). 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 2009-11-09)
- Sports-reference.com profile
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- 1944 births
- Belgian male canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Dutch male canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Belgium
- Olympic canoeists of the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Enschede
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- European canoeist stubs
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- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics