Maximilian "Max" Raub (13 April 1926 – 17 November 2019) was an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two

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, he won two bronze medals in the K-2 1000 m event (

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

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). Raub also won four medals at the

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with a gold (K-2 10000 m:

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 ...

) and three bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m:

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...

, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950).

References

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Maximilian Raub's obituary

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* 1926 births 2019 deaths Austrian male canoeists Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists of Austria Olympic bronze medalists for Austria Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics {{Austria-canoe-bio-stub