Michal Martikán

Michal Martikán
nation	Slovakia
birthday	May 18, 1979
place of birth	Liptovský Mikuláš
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Canadians (C1)
status	active
Medal table
OS medals 2 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 10 × 3 × 5 × JWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 12 × 4 × 1 × JEM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1996 Atlanta C1 gold 2008 Beijing C1 silver 2000 Sydney C1 silver 2004 Athens C1 bronze 2012 London C1 Canoe World Championships gold 1997 Três Coroas C1 gold 1997 Três Coroas C1 team gold 2002 Bourh St.-Maurice C1 gold 2003 Augsburg C1 gold 2003 Augsburg C1 team gold 2007 Foz do Iguaçu C1 gold 2009 La Seu d'Urgell C1 team gold 2010 Tacen C1 team gold 2011 Bratislava C1 team gold 2013 Prague C1 team silver 2006 Prague C1 silver 2009 La Seu d'Urgell C1 silver 2010 Tacen C1 bronze 1995 Nottingham C1 bronze 1995 Nottingham C1 bronze 1999 La Seu d'Urgell C1 bronze 1999 La Seu d'Urgell C1 team bronze 2005 Penrith C1 European Canoe Championships gold 1998 Roudnice nad Labem C1 team gold 2000 Mezzana C1 team gold 2002 Bratislava C1 team gold 2005 Tacen C1 team gold 2013 Krakow C1 team gold 2007 Liptovský Mikuláš C1 gold 2007 Liptovský Mikuláš C1 team gold 2008 Krakow C1 gold 2008 Krakow C1 team gold 2009 Nottingham C1 gold 2010 Bratislava C1 gold 2010 Bratislava C1 team gold 2012 Augsburg C1 team silver 1998 Roudnice nad Labem C1 silver 2006 L'Argentière-la-Bessée C1 silver 2006 L'Argentière-la-Bessée C1 team silver 2014 Vienna C1 bronze 2014 Vienna C1 team
last change: May 31, 2014

Michal Martikán (born May 18, 1979 in Liptovský Mikuláš ) is a Slovak canoe slalom driver in the Canadian single.

Michal Martikán has been among the world's best in his sport since the 1995 World Championships in Nottingham , where he won bronze medals both individually and in teams. He won his first world title in 1997 in Três Coroas . There he also won team gold. Further world championship titles followed in 2002 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice , 2003 in Augsburg (again double gold) and 2007 in Foz do Iguaçu . He won silver in 2006 in Prague , bronze in La Seu d'Urgell in 1999 and in Penrith in 2005 . At the European Championships in Krakow in 2008 , he won gold with the team and in the individual. In many cases he took top positions in world cups. He was the athlete who, at the age of 16, was the youngest winner of a World Cup.

He celebrated his greatest successes at the Olympic Games. At the age of just 17, he won the gold medal for the first time at the 1996 Games in Atlanta . This was also the first gold medal for Slovakia after the division of Czechoslovakia . In 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens Martikan won silver behind the Frenchman Tony Estanguet . At the Games in 2008 in Beijing , he again won gold and in 2012 in Beijing, he won the bronze medal. In terms of the number of medals, Martikán is the most successful slalom canoeist in the individual competitions of the Olympic Games. In terms of value, however, it is behind Estanguet, who won his 3rd Olympic gold with the victory in London in 2012.

Web links

• Portrait on the official website of the Games (English)