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Tibor Linka (Hungarian: Linka Tibor, 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. He is of Hungarian ethnicity.
Career
At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák. Next year, again with Myšák, they finished second in the U23 race. 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. In 2016, the same team won one gold and one silver medal 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.
References
External links
Media related to Tibor Linka at Wikimedia Commons
Tibor Linka at the International Canoe Federation
Tibor Linka at Olympedia
Tibor Linka at Olympics.com Tibor Linka at Olympic.org (archived)
Tibor Linka at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pendudukan wilayah Yugoslavia oleh Hungaria
- Tibor Linka
- Šamorín
- Slovakia at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men)
- Felix Frank (canoeist)
- Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Slovakia at the Olympics
- 2018 European Junior and U23 Canoe Sprint Championships
- List of 2016 Summer Olympics medal winners
- Chronological summary of the 2016 Summer Olympics
