Pavel Kvasil (born 27 June 1939) is a Czechoslovak

sprint canoeist 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 late 1960s and the early 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the

1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in the East Berlin suburb of Grünau in East Germany. This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. From 19 to 21 August, competitors used the regatta course o ...

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

. Kvasil also finished ninth in the K-4 1000 m event at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

in Munich. He was married to the competitive rower

Alena Postlová Alena Postlová (later Alena Kvasilová–Postlová, 24 March 1939 – 13 May 2005) was a Czechoslovakian rower. She won the 1962 European Rowing Championships The 1962 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Langer ...

; his wife died in 2005.

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1939 births Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Czechoslovak male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Czechoslovakia ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak {{Slovakia-canoe-bio-stub