Tomasz Wylenzek
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Olympic Games | ||
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2004 Athens | C-2 1000 m |
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2008 Beijing | C-2 1000 m |
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2008 Beijing | C-2 500 m |
World Championships | ||
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2005 Zagreb | C-2 500 m |
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2005 Zagreb | C-2 1000 m |
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2007 Duisburg | C-2 1000 m |
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2009 Dartmouth | C-2 1000 m |
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2011 Szeged | C-2 1000 m |
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2005 Zagreb | C-2 200 m |
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2006 Szeged | C-2 200 m |
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2007 Duisburg | C-2 200 m |
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2007 Duisburg | C-2 500 m |
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2010 Poznań | C-4 1000 m |
Tomasz Wylenzek (Polish: Tomasz Wylenżek) (born 9 January 1983 in Nowe Chechło, Silesia, Poland) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s.
Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at Curitiba, Brazil. The following year, still only 19, he was promoted to the German senior squad as C-2 partner for the more experienced Christian Gille. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville, they finished seventh in the 500 m final.
At Wylenzek's first Olympics in Athens, he and Gille won a surprise gold in the C-2 1000 m event.
In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event, showing that their Athens victory was not a fluke. A clean sweep of medals (200 m, 500 m and 1000 m) at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500 m and 1000 m) at the World Championships in Zagreb.
2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years. Gille and Wylenzek lost out to Stefan Holtz and Robert Nuck in the German C-2 500 m trial and were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance. Wylenzek was philosophical as they lost their other titles too, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships (European C-2 1000 m and world C-2 200 m).
Wylenzek won two more Olympic medals at Beijing in 2008 with a silver in the C-1 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events. since those games, he has won two more world championships medals with a gold in 2009 (C-2 1000 m) and a bronze in 2010 (C-4 1000 m).
Wylenzek lives in Essen. He is 183 centimetres (6 feet 0 inches) tall and weighs 85 kg (187 lb).
References[]
- Canoe09.ca profile
- "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived from the original on January 21, 2009. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Official website (in German)
- Tomasz Wylenzek at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Sunnyboy mit starkem Finish[permanent dead link] Markus Wessel / WDR.de
- 1983 births
- Tarnowskie Góry County
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- German male canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- German people of Polish descent
- Naturalized citizens of Germany
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- People from Tarnowskie Góry County
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics