Tomasz Wylenzek ( pl, Tomasz Wylenżek) (born 9 January 1983 in Nowe Chechło,

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) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s. Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at

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, Brazil. The following year, still only 19, he was promoted to the German senior squad as C-2 partner for the more experienced

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. At the 2002 World Championships in

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, they finished seventh in the 500 m final. At Wylenzek's first

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, he and Gille won a surprise gold in the C-2 1000 m event. In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event, showing that their Athens victory was not a fluke. A clean sweep of medals (200 m, 500 m and 1000 m) at the European Championships in

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, Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500 m and 1000 m) at the

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. 2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years. Gille and Wylenzek lost out to Stefan Holtz and

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in the German C-2 500 m trial and were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance. Wylenzek was philosophical as they lost their other titles too, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships (European C-2 1000 m and world C-2 200 m). Wylenzek won two more Olympic medals at

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with a silver in the C-1 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events. since those games, he has won two more world championships medals with a gold in

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(C-2 1000 m) and a bronze in

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(C-4 1000 m). Wylenzek lives in

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. He is tall and weighs .

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