Ján Kubica (born June 17, 1973, in
Trenčín
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) is a
Slovak sprint canoer
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who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). At the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in
Atlanta
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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the
C-1 1000 m event.
four years later in
Sydney
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, Kubica was eliminated in the semifinals of both the
C-2 500 m and the
C-2 1000 m events.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
External links
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1973 births
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Slovakia
Slovak male canoeists
Sportspeople from Trenčín
21st-century Slovak sportsmen
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