Daniel Havel (; born 10 August 1991) is a Czech
sprint canoeist
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.
Overview
Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...
who has competed since the late 2000s. He is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist.
Career
Havel began to train in sprint canoe in 1999.
He won the bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the
2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 19–22 August 2010 in Poznań, Poland, on Lake Malta. This was the third time that the Polish city hosted the championships, having done so previously in 1990 and 2001. Paracanoe (forme ...
in
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...
.
In 2012, he won silver in the same event at the
World Championships in
Duisburg
Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in Nor ...
.
That year, the Czech K-4 1000 m team he was part of won Olympic bronze.
In 2013, at the European Championships, the K-4 1000 m team won gold, while the K-2 1000 m team Havel shared with
Jan Sterba, won bronze.
In 2014, he completed his set of K-4 1000 m World Championship medals, winning gold in Moscow.
In 2015, the Czech K-4 1000 m team won World bronze again.
At the European Championships that year, Havel repeated the results of the 2013 European Championships.
At the 2017 World Championships, he won bronze in the K-2 1000 m and the K-4 500 m.
Havel sold trophies he was awarded following his Olympic medals to support young Czech canoeists.
His wife, Andrea Havlova, is also an international competitor in the sprint canoe.
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Czech male canoeists
Olympic canoeists of the Czech Republic
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Czech Republic
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Living people
Canoeists from Prague
1991 births
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
European Games competitors for the Czech Republic
Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
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