Edward Daniel McKeever
MBE (born 27 August 1983) is a British kayak athlete. He is a former European, World and Olympic champion.
McKeever won the gold medal at the
2012 Olympic Games in the K-1 200m event.
He won two medals 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 ...
in
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...
with a gold in the K-1 200 m and a silver in the K-1 4 × 200 m events, and a further silver in the K-1 200m at the
2011 event in
Szeged
Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the m ...
.
World Championships
In 2012 McKeever won the K1 200m event at the World Cup in Poznan he also won the K1 200m at the European Championships in 2010
Trasona, Spain and the kayak World Cup race in
Szeged
Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the m ...
, Hungary. McKeever still competes for the Bradford on Avon rowing club, despite moving to south Buckinghamshire to train at the 2012 Olympic race venue of
Dorney lake
Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built rowing lake in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km (2 miles) west of Wi ...
.
In 2012, McKeever won gold medal in the K1 200m event, in Canoe sprint World Cup.
Olympics 2012
He competed in the canoe sprint team for London Olympics 2012 in the Men’s K1 200m. He qualified for the K1 200m final after achieving a new Olympic best of 35.087 seconds in the heats and on 11 August he won the gold medal in the event.
McKeever was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to kayaking.
Cabinet Office
See also
* 2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom
To commemorate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, various post boxes in the home towns of the medal winners around the United Kingdom, plus one each on Sark and the Isle of Man, were repainted go ...
References
External links
Canoe09.ca profile
Official Website
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1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bath, Somerset
People from Bradford-on-Avon
Alumni of Kingston University
English male canoeists
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Olympic canoeists for Great Britain
English Olympic medallists
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in canoeing
English accountants
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
European Games medalists in canoeing
British male canoeists
Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
European Games silver medalists for Great Britain