Tibor Linka
Slovak sprint canoer
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Tibor Linka (Hungarian: Linka Tibor, born 13 February 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of Šamorín.[3] He is of Hungarian ethnicity.[4]
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| Nationality | Slovak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 February 1995[1] Šamorín, Slovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 199 cm (6 ft 6 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 105 kg (231 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Kajak Canoe Klub Samorin[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Marian Tesarik[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák.[5] Next year, again with Myšák, they finished second in the U23 race.[6] In 2015 he became part of Slovak K-4 team, which had won many medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. With Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Denis Myšák, they won K-4 1000 metres race at the 2015 World Championships.[7] In 2016, the same team won one gold [8] and one silver medal [9] at the 2016 European Championships, showing good form before the main objective of the season, the Olympic Games, where they competed in the K-4 1000 m category as the reigning World Champions and managed to win the silver medal.
