Tibor Linka ( hu, Linka Tibor, born 13 February 1995) is a Slovak

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 ...

who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of

Šamorín Šamorín (; hu, Somorja, german: Sommerein) is a small town in western Slovakia, southeast of Bratislava. Etymology The name is derived from a patron saint of a local church Sancta Maria, mentioned for the first time as ''villa Sancti Marie'' ...

. He is of Hungarian ethnicity.

Career

At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with

Denis Myšák Denis Myšák (born 30 November 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoeist. He competes in K-4 events and won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Career He took up the sport at age eight. Because ...

. Next year, again with Myšák, they finished second in the U23 race. In 2015 he became part of Slovak K-4 team, which had won many medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. With Erik Vlček,

Juraj Tarr Juraj Tarr (born 18 February 1979) is a Slovak flatwater sprint canoeist who competes in two-man (K-2) and four-man (K-4) events. He participated in four Olympics in the K-4 1000 m event and won silver medals in 2008 and 2016, placing fourth in ...

and

, they won K-4 1000 metres race at the 2015 World Championships. In 2016, the same team won one gold and one silver medal at the 2016 European Championships, showing good form before the main objective of the season, the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

, where they competed in the K-4 1000 m category as the reigning World Champions and managed to win the silver medal.

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* * * * 1995 births Living people Olympic silver medalists for Slovakia Olympic canoeists for Slovakia Slovak male canoeists People from Šamorín Sportspeople from the Trnava Region ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Hungarians in Slovakia Olympic medalists in canoeing Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics {{Slovakia-canoe-bio-stub