Jiří Vrdlovec (born 29 June 1956) is a
Czechoslovak
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**Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–39)
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sprint canoer and
marathon canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1980s. He won six medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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with two golds (C-1 10000 m:
1983
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,
1985
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), one silver (C-1 10000 m:
1982, and three bronzes (C-1 1000 m:
1981
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, 1983; C-2 10000 m: 1981).
Vrdlovec also competed at the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow
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where he finished fifth in both the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events.
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1956 births
Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Czechoslovak male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Czechoslovakia
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
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