Pavel Bednář (born June 25, 1970) is a
Czech 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 ...
and
marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. He won two medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-1 10000 m:
1993
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) and a bronze (C-2 200 m:
1997
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).
Bednář also competed 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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, but was eliminated in the semifinals of both the
C-2 500 m and the
C-2 1000 m events.
References
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Sports-Reference.com profile
1970 births
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Czech male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for the Czech Republic
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
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