Jan Vandrey

Jan Vandrey
nation	Germany
birthday	December 11, 1991
place of birth	Schwedt / Oder
size	188 cm
job	Fire chief
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Canadians
society	KC Potsdam
Trainer	Ralph Welke
National squad	since 2016
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 2016 Rio de Jainero Canoe two-man 1000 m
last change: 08/20/2016

Jan Vandrey (born December 11, 1991 in Schwedt / Oder ) is a German canoeist .

The canoe racers of KC Potsdam was able to qualify for the 2009 World Youth Championship, where he in Canoe Doubles over 500 and 1000 meters finished 4 or 5th place.

In the following years he took part in several U23 world and European championships. In 2012 and 2013 he won silver there in the single canoe.

Since the German Canoe Association had missed the quota it was aiming for for the Olympic Games in Rio in the two-man canoe, Sebastian Brendel was initially only able to nominate a German athlete in the canoe disciplines. After the International Canoe Association (ICF) banned two Belarusian athletes in July 2016 for positive doping results, the German Canoe Association was given two more starting places in the Canadier, which meant that Vandrey was subsequently nominated for the German Olympic team. In Rio, Vandrey and Sebastian Brendel became Olympic champion in the two-man canoe over 1000 m.

For this he was awarded the silver bay leaf on November 1, 2016 .

Honors

• 2016: Silver bay leaf
• 2016: Sportsman of the Year from Brandenburg (in a team with Sebastian Brendel )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Race canoeists are now starting in Rio in all twelve disciplines" message on kanu.de from July 19, 2016
2. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine , December 12, 2016, p. 25

Web links

• Profile at the German Canoe Association