Wolfgang Hartl (
Linz, 2 February 1941) is an
Austrian
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 early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the
1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland for the second time. The Finnish city had host the championships previously in 1973.
The men's competition consisted of six Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) ar ...
in
Tampere.
Hartl also competed in two
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
, earning his best finish of ninth in the
K-2 500 m event at
Los Angeles in
1984
Events
January
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References
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Sports-reference.com profile*
1941 births
Austrian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Austria
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
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