Daniel Havel (; born 10 August 1991) is a Czech sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist.

Career

Havel began to train in sprint canoe in 1999. He won the bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the

2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 19–22 August 2010 in Poznań, Poland, on Lake Malta. This was the third time that the Polish city hosted the championships, having done so previously in 1990 and 2001. Paracanoe (former ...

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. In 2012, he won silver in the same event at the

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. That year, the Czech K-4 1000 m team he was part of won Olympic bronze. In 2013, at the European Championships, the K-4 1000 m team won gold, while the K-2 1000 m team Havel shared with Jan Sterba, won bronze. In 2014, he completed his set of K-4 1000 m World Championship medals, winning gold in Moscow. In 2015, the Czech K-4 1000 m team won World bronze again. At the European Championships that year, Havel repeated the results of the 2013 European Championships. At the 2017 World Championships, he won bronze in the K-2 1000 m and the K-4 500 m. Havel sold trophies he was awarded following his Olympic medals to support young Czech canoeists. His wife, Andrea Havlova, is also an international competitor in the sprint canoe.

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* * * Czech male canoeists Olympic canoeists of the Czech Republic Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Olympic medalists in canoeing Living people Canoeists from Prague 1991 births ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics European Games competitors for the Czech Republic Canoeists at the 2015 European Games {{CzechRepublic-canoe-bio-stub