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André Ehrenberg (born 2 January 1972 in
Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...
) is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1990 to 2003. Competing in two
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, he won a bronze medal in the C2 event in
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in
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
. Ehrenberg also won five medals at the
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with three silvers (C2:
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, C2 team:
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,
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
) and two bronzes (C2 team:
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
, 1997). He earned two more medals at the
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(1 gold and 1 bronze). His partner in the boat throughout the whole of his C2 career was Michael Senft.


World Cup individual podiums


References


DatabaseOlympics.com profileICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
1972 births Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics German male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in canoeing Sportspeople from Braunschweig Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-canoe-Olympic-medalist-stub