Max Hoff (canoeist)

Max Hoff
nation	Germany
birthday	September 12, 1982
place of birth	Troisdorf
size	197 cm
Weight	96 kg
job	Biologist
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Kayak (K1)
society	KG Essen
Trainer	Robert Berger, Stefan Ulm, Arndt Hanisch
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 7 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 5 × 5 × 3 ×
Olympic games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro K4 1000 m bronze 2012 London K1 1000 m Canoe racing world championships gold 2019 Szeged K2 1000 m gold 2013 Duisburg K1 1000 m gold 2011 Szeged K1 5000 m gold 2011 Szeged K4 1000 m gold 2010 Poznan K1 1000 m gold 2009 Dartmouth K1 1000 m gold 2006 Carlsbad K1 men's whitewater sprint silver 2019 Szeged K1 5000 m silver 2014 Moscow K1 5000 m silver 2010 Poznan K1 5000 m silver 2006 Carlsbad K1 Men Classic bronze 2006 Carlsbad K1 Men Team Classic European Games gold 2019 Minsk K2 1000 m gold 2015 Baku K1 1000 m gold 2015 Baku K1 5000 m bronze 2019 Minsk K1 5000 m Canoe Racing European Championships gold 2011 Belgrade K1 1000 m gold 2010 Trasona K1 1000 m gold 2009 Brandenburg K1 1000 m gold 2007 Bihać K1 men's white water classic silver 2011 Belgrade K4 1000 m silver 2010 Trasona K1 5000 m silver 2007 Bihać K1 Men Team Classic silver 2007 Bihać K1 men's team sprint bronze 2010 Trasona K1 500 m bronze 2008 Milan K1 1000 m
last change: September 1, 2013

Max Hoff (born September 12, 1982 in Troisdorf ) is a German canoeist and Olympic champion . He originally went kayaking in white water , but switched to Olympic canoe racing in 2007 .

Max Hoff, who grew up in Lohmar , studied biology at the University of Cologne . He is trained by Stephan Stiefenhöfer . Hoff originally came from whitewater canoeing. He started at STV Siegburg in 1994 , and in 2000 he moved to the Blau-Weiss Köln water sports club . In canoe racing , Hoff competed for the ECST Raunheim from 2000 to 2008 , and for the 2009 season he also switched to his Cologne club in this discipline. From the 2011 season he will start for KG Essen .

In 2000 Hoff was world champion in the team and second in the individual as well as German junior champion at the world championships in Sterzing in the single kayak . In 2001 he won his first national men's title, which he was able to defend in 2002. In 2005 he won the Gorges de l'Ardèche marathon with Stiefenhöfer in a two-man kayak , was German champion in one, winner of the Germany Cup and eleventh in the overall ranking of the World Cup. In 2006 he achieved his greatest success at the world championships in Karlovy Vary and became world champion in the whitewater sprint in the individual competition as well as vice world champion on the classic distance and third with the team. There was also the German championship title (Classic) and fourth place in the overall World Cup ranking. Two marathon races won in two and a second place complete the result of the year. In 2007 Hoff won the European championship in the white water classic in Bihać and became vice European champion with the classic and sprint team. He also won the title of South African River Marathon Champion.

In 2007, he switched from non-Olympic white water sports to Olympic canoe racing . At the European Championships in 2007 Hoff was fourth in a single kayak over 1000 meters, at the World Championships in 2007 he was tenth in the same discipline. In 2008 he won the bronze medal at the European Championships and thus secured the German Canoe Association an Olympic starting place in this discipline. With a sixth place at the World Cup race in Duisburg , he qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . At the competitions there he finished fifth in the final race after a superior semi-final victory . Hoff won his first international racing title at the 2009 European Championships in a single kayak over 1000 meters. At the 2009 World Championships , he also won gold in a single kayak over 1000 meters. At the 2010 European Canoe Racing Championships, he won gold in a single kayak over 1000 meters. He won the same discipline at the World Championships in Poznan (Poland) in August . In the years 2009-2011 he won the German championship title in single kayak over 1000 meters three times in a row. At the 2012 Olympic Games , Hoff won the bronze medal in a single kayak over 1000 meters. In 2013 Hoff won a total of two further international titles. He won the title at the 2013 European Championships in Montemor-o-Velho (Portugal) in a single kayak over 5000 meters and also at the 2013 World Championships in Duisburg in a single kayak over 1000 meters. In addition there was a silver medal and a bronze medal at the European Championships in K1 over 1000 meters and 500 meters. At the 2014 World Championships in Moscow, he was unable to defend his title over 1000 meters in a single kayak, but finished last in the final. Over 5000 meters, however, he took silver behind Kenny Wallace .

At the European Games in 2015 , he won gold medals in both the 1000 and 5000 meters. Hoff competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in two boats. He took seventh place in a single kayak over the 1000 meter distance. On the last day of competition of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the German four-person kayak with Max Rendschmidt , Max Hoff, Tom Liebscher and Marcus Groß won gold on the Olympic 1000-meter distance.

For his successful sports career, he was honored with the sports plaque of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in February 2017 .

music

Simon Goodlife feat. Olympic Canoe Team - RIOlympia

Web links

Commons : Max Hoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Max Hoff in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait on the website of the German Canoe Association
• Portrait at Netzathleten
• portrait

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau v. August 17, 2016, p. 27, Olaf Pohl: The Agger was his training route
2. ^ Canoe World Championships: Hoff takes silver over long distances. In: Focus August 9, 2014. Accessed November 13, 2014.
3. ^ Nicole Trum: Sport badge of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to Max Hoff. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, February 7, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Peter Stein: Canoeists present an Olympic song in Kienbaum. Märkische Allgemeine, July 14, 2016, accessed on August 10, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Together for the Olympic dream. In: Kanu.de. August 3, 2016, accessed August 10, 2016 .