Ricarda Funk (born 15 April 1992) is a German slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008. Funk won the gold medal in the K1 event at the

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. She won eight medals at the

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with four golds (K1:

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, K1 team:

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, 2022), two silvers (K1:

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, K1 team:

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) and two bronzes (K1: 2017, 2018). She also won three golds, two silvers and one bronze at the

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. Funk also won the overall

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title in the K1 class in

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and

. She was the World No. 1 in 2017.

World Cup individual podiums

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* * German female canoeists Living people 1992 births People from Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships Olympic canoeists of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in canoeing Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Germany-canoe-bio-stub