Isak Öhrström (born 26 November 1990) is a

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slalom canoeist and an Olympian who has competed since 2006. In 2008 as a junior he made it to the final at the World Championships in the Czech Republic. He also finished 4th at the Youth Olympic Games in Sydney 2009 after winning the semifinal. In Brazil 2016 he became the first Swedish athlete in history to compete in the Olympic Games in Canoe Slalom. He finished in 15th place in the K1 event at the

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. At the World Championships in Spain 2019 he qualified a nation quota for the Tokyo Olympic Games for Sweden. On the first ever race on the venue that will hold the Tokyo Olympic Games he finished in 5th place. Isak has been in several World Cup finals, including Prague 2015, Tacen 2016 and Tacen 2020 where he took the first ever world cup medal for Sweden with a gold. He has also won a number of races in the World Ranking Series organised by the International Canoe Federation.

World Cup individual podiums

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* 1990 births Living people Slalom canoeists Swedish male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Sweden Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics European Games competitors for Sweden Canoeists at the 2023 European Games Canoeists at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-sport-bio-stub