Ivan Patzaichin
Ivan Patzaichin
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Born |
Mila 23, Tulcea County, Romania |
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Height |
1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
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Weight |
79 kg (174 lb) |
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Sport |
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Club |
CS Dinamo București |
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Ivan Patzaichin (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈvan paˈt͡sajkin]; born 26 November 1949) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Biography
Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won seven medals, more than any other competitor in the history of the Romanian canoeing events. This included four gold (C-1 1000 m: 1972, C-2 1000 m: 1968, 1980, 1984) and three silvers (C-2 500 m: 1980, 1984; C-2 1000 m: 1972).
He also won 22 world championship medals with nine golds (C-1 1000 m: 1973, 1977; C-1 10000 m: 1978, C-2 500 m: 1979, C-2 1000 m: 1970, 1981, 1983; C-2 10000 m: 1982), four silvers (C-1 1000 m: 1975, C-2 1000 m: 1971, C-2 10000 m: 1981, 1983), and nine bronzes (C-1 500 m: 1971, 1973, 1974; C-1 1000 m: 1974, 1978, 1979; C-1 10000 m: 1974, 1977, 1979).
Born in Mila 23, Tulcea County, to a Russian Lipovan family, he was a member of the Dinamo Bucharest canoe club. When he retired, Patzaichin became a coach and is now head of the Romanian national team, known as Amiralul ("The Admiral"). His pupils, including Olympic champion Florin Popescu, have won over one hundred sprint canoe titles.
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Ivan Patzaichin on 2004 Romanian stamps
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- 1936: Czechoslovakia (Vladimír Syrovátka, Jan Brzák-Felix)
- 1948: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix, Bohumil Kudrna)
- 1952: Denmark (Bent Peder Rasch, Finn Haunstoft)
- 1956: Romania (Alexe Dumitru, Simion Ismailciuc)
- 1960: Soviet Union (Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko)
- 1964: Soviet Union (Andrei Khimich, Stepan Oshchepkov)
- 1968: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Serghei Covaliov)
- 1972: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas, Yuri Lobanov)
- 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Petrenko, Aleksandr Vinogradov)
- 1980 – 1984: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Toma Simionov)
- 1988: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky, Nicolae Juravschi)
- 1992: Germany (Ulrich Papke, Ingo Spelly)
- 1996: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach, Andreas Dittmer)
- 2000: Romania (Mitică Pricop, Florin Popescu)
- 2004: Germany (Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek)
- 2008: Belarus (Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich)
- 2012: Germany (Peter Kretschmer, Kurt Kuschela)
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