Franziska Weber (born 24 May 1989) is a German

sprint canoer 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.

Career

She was Olympic Champion at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in the K-2 500 metres with Tina Dietze. At the same Olympics, she also won silver in the K-4 500 m. At the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, she finished 5th in the women's K-1 500 metres event. She won the silver medal in the women's K-2 500 metres event with teammate Tina Dietze. She also competed as part of the women's K-4 500 metres team which earned the silver medal. She has won 12 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 3 golds (K-1 1000 m:

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; K-2 200 m:

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; K-2 500 m: 2013), 7 silvers (K-1 1000 m:

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

; K-2 500 m:

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

; K-2 200 m:

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; K-4 500 m: 2011, 2013, 2017) and 2 bronzes (K-2 500 m:

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; K-4 500 m: 2015). In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games, for Germany in canoe sprint, more specifically, Women's K-4 500m with Verena Hantl, Conny Wassmuth, and Tina Dietze. She earned a silver medal. She first began canoeing in 1999, and made her international debut in 2009. She has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Potsdam.

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* * * * 1989 births German female canoeists Living people Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists of Germany Olympic medalists in canoeing Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics European Games medalists in canoeing Canoeists at the 2015 European Games European Games silver medalists for Germany Sportspeople from Potsdam Canoeists at the 2019 European Games {{Germany-canoe-Olympic-medalist-stub