Denis Myšák

Denis Myšák

Myšák at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Slovakia
Born	(1995-11-30) 30 November 1995 [1] Bojnice, Slovakia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)[2]
Sport
Club	SKP Bratislava KRK Novaky[3]
Coached by	Peter Liker[3]
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 1 0 0 European Championships 1 1 0 European Games 0 0 0 Total 2 2 0 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-4 1000 m World Championships 2015 Milan K-4 1000 m European Championships 2016 Moscow K-4 1000 m 2016 Moscow K-4 500 m

Denis Myšák (born 30 November 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer. He competes in K-4 events and won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics .

Career

He took up the sport at age eight. Because of his successes in junior category, he was named Slovak Junior Kayaker of the Year in 2012 and 2013.^[1] At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Tibor Linka.^[4] Next year, again with Linka, they finished second in the U23 race.^[5] In 2015 he became part of Slovak K-4 team, which had won many medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. With Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Tibor Linka, they won K-4 1000 metres race at the 2015 World Championships.^[6] In 2016, the same team won one gold^[7] and one silver medal^[8] at the 2016 European Championships, showing good form before the main objective of the season, the Olympic Games, where they competed in the K-4 1000 m category as the reigning World Champions and managed to win the silver medal.

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