Václav Havel (canoeist)

Václav Havel

Medal record
Representing Czechoslovakia
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1948 London	C-2 10000 m
Canoe Sprint World Championships
	1950 Copenhagen	C-2 1000 m
Men's canoe slalom
Canoe Slalom World Championships
	1957 Augsburg	C-2 team
	1951 Steyr	C-2 team
	1957 Augsburg	C-2
	1959 Geneva	C-2
	1959 Geneva	C-2 team
	1951 Steyr	C-2
	1953 Meran	C-2 team

Václav Havel (5 October 1920 – 14 December 1979) was a Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. He was born in Prague (where he also died).

Havel won a silver medal in the C-2 10,000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He also won a bronze medal in the C-2 1,000 m event at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen.

He also competed in slalom canoeing, winning seven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. This included a gold (C-2 team: 1957), four silvers (C-2: 1957, 1959; C-2 team: 1951, 1959) and two bronzes (C-2: 1951, C-2 team: 1953).

References

• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: 13 January 2016.
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016.

External links

• Václav Havel at Olympedia
• Václav Havel at Olympics.com
• Václav Havel at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)