Franz Anton

Franz Anton
nation	Germany
birthday	October 23, 1989
place of birth	Lutherstadt Wittenberg ,  GDR
size	173 cm
Weight	70 kg
job	Police chief
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Canadians (C1, C2)
society	SG Kanu Meißen (former) Leipziger KC
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 4 × 1 × U23 World Championship medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 2 × 2 × U23 European Championship medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × Toilet medals 1 × 3 × 0 × DM medals 13 × 7 × 8 ×
Canoe World Championships gold 2015 Lee Valley C2 gold 2018 Rio de Janeiro C1 silver 2010 Tacen C1 team silver 2013 Prague C1 team silver 2015 Lee Valley C2 team silver 2015 Lee Valley C1 team bronze 2014 Deep Creek C1 European Canoe Championships gold 2017 Tacen C1 team gold 2018 Prague C2 team silver 2015 Markkleeberg C2 silver 2013 Krakow C1 team bronze 2013 Krakow C2 team bronze 2016 Liptovsky Mikulas C2 team
last change: September 29, 2018

Franz Anton (born October 23, 1989 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is a German slalom canoeist and two-time world champion. His main discipline is the men's single canoe (C1). Since the 2012 season he has also competed in the two-man canoe (C2) together with Jan Benzien . Franz Anton's sporting career began in a children's gymnastics club at a fencing club. His grandfather Horst Schubert already competed in fencing at the World Championships in Modern Pentathlon in Mexico in 1962 and was the first athlete to participate in World Championships for the GDR. His mother took him to a Meissen canoe club, where he had been training since 1998, when he was advertised. Since 2006 he has been part of the national squad of German juniors, with which he became Junior European Champion in 2007. Since 2010 he has been part of the German senior national team. His greatest successes are winning the world championship in two-man canoes together with Benzien in 2015 and the world championship in one-canoe in 2018.

After finishing high school at a school in Dresden, Franz Anton completed extensive training with the Saxon Police from 2009 to 2014 , where he is part of the sports promotion group.

successes

Anton / Benzien at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

International

• 2007 - 1st place Junior European Championship (C1-Team)
• 2008 - 6th place U23 EM (C1-Team)
• 2009 - 4th place U23 EM (C1-Team)
• 2010 - 2nd place WM (C1-Team); 1st place U23 EM (C1-Team)
• 2011 - 3rd place U23 EM (C1-Team)
• 2012 - 2nd place U23 WM (C1)
• 2013 - 2nd place EM (C1-Team), 3rd place EM (C2-Team)
• 2014 - 2nd place overall World Cup (C2); 3rd place WM (C1)
• 2015 - 1st place World Championship (C2), 2nd place World Championship (C2 team), 2nd place World Championship (C1 team)

National

• 2007 - 2nd place DM of the juniors (C1), 3rd place DM of the juniors (C1-Team)
• 2008 - 1st place DM (C1-Team)
• 2009 - 2nd place DM (C1-Team)
• 2010 - 3rd place DM (C1-Team)
• 2011 - 3rd place DM (C1), 2nd place DM (C2), 1st place DM (C1-Team), 1st place DM (C2-Team)
• 2012 - 2nd place DM (C2), 3rd place DM (C1), 1st place DM (C2-Team), 1st place DM (C1-Team)
• 2013 - 3rd place DM (C2), 1st place DM (C2-Team), 3rd place DM (C1-Team)
• 2014 - 2nd place DM (C1), 1st place DM (C1-Team), 2nd place DM (C2-Team)
• 2015 - 1st place DM (C1-Team), 1st place DM (C2-Team)

Web links

• Official website of Franz Anton
• Portrait at DKV
• Entry in the canoe slalom results database of the DKV
• Canoe slalom team Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} His territory is the canoe park. Interview with Franz Anton. (No longer available online.) In: Ostsächsischer Polizeianzeiger. Police Saxony, August 5, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 7, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.