Paul Lange (canoeist)

Paul Lange

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	K-1 4 × 500 m
World Championships
	1958 Prague	K-1 4 × 500 m
	1958 Prague	K-2 500 m

Paul Lange (6 February 1931 – 15 March 2016) was a West German-German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 × 500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome (with Dieter Krause, Günther Perleberg and Friedhelm Wentzke).^[1][2] Lange also won two medals at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague with a gold in the K-1 4 × 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. He was born in Oberhausen.

References

1. "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Canoeing" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 6 December 2008)
2. Profile: Paul Lange sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 6 December 2008)

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
• Paul Lange's obituary (German)