Jan Pinczura (born 20 October 1960 in
Balin) is a Polish
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 competed in the 1980s. Competing in two
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
, he earned his best finish of fifth in the
C-1 500 m event in
Seoul in
1988
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.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
External links
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1960 births
Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Poland
Polish male canoeists
People from Chrzanów County
Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
20th-century Polish sportspeople
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