František Čapek
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1948 London | C-1 10000 m | |
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1954 Mâcon | C-1 10000 m |
František Čapek (24 October 1914 – 31 January 2008) was a Czechoslovakian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Born in Branice, Písek District, he also won a silver medal at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon in the C-1 10000 m event.
References
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "František Čapek". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2011-08-24.
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Olympic Champions in Men's discontinued canoe events
- 1948: František Čapek (TCH)
- 1952: Frank Havens (USA)
- 1956: Leon Rotman (ROU)
- 1936: Czechoslovakia (Václav Mottl and Zdeněk Škrland)
- 1948: United States (Steven Lysak and Stephen Macknowski)
- 1952: France (Georges Turlier and Jean Laudet)
- 1956: Soviet Union (Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev)
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