Tibor Linka

Tibor Linka

Linka at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Slovakia
Born	(1995-02-13) 13 February 1995[1] Šamorín, Slovakia
Height	199 cm (6 ft 6 in)[2]
Weight	95 kg (209 lb)
Sport
Club	Kajak Canoe Klub Samorin[3]
Coached by	Peter Liker[3]
Medal record Representing  Slovakia 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

Tibor Linka (born 13 February 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of Šamorín.^[3]

Career

At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák.^[4] Next year, again with Myšák, 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 Denis Myšák, 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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