Jiří Vokněr (12 May 1931 – 29 May 2018) is a
Czechoslovak 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 competed in the mid to late 1950s. He won three medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with one gold (
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
: C-1 10000 m) and two silvers (
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
: C-1 1000 m, C-1 10000 m).
Vokněr also finished fourth in the
C-1 10000 m event at the
1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...
in
Melbourne.
References
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Sports-reference.com profile
1931 births
Canoeists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Czechoslovak male canoeists
Czech male canoeists
2018 deaths
Olympic canoeists for Czechoslovakia
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
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