Ludvík Klíma (27 June 1912 - 19 May 1973) was a
Czechoslovak sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1930s and late 1940s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the
1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in
London
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.
Klíma also competed in two
Summer Olympics
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, earning his best finish of fifth in the
folding K-2 10000 m event at
Berlin
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in
1936
Events January–February
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. He was born and died in
Prague
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References
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Sports-reference.com profile
1912 births
1973 deaths
Canoeists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Czech male canoeists
Czechoslovak male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Czechoslovakia
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Canoeists from Prague
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