Peter Kauzer

Peter Kauzer
Peter Kauzer (2019)
nation	Slovenia
birthday	September 8, 1983
place of birth	Trbovlje ,  Slovenia
size	177 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Kayak (K1)
society	Steklarna Hrastnik
status	active
Medal table
OS medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 3 × EM medals 6 × 2 × 2 ×
Olympic games silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro K1 Canoe World Championships bronze 2005 Penrith K1 team gold 2009 La Seu d'Urgell K1 gold 2011 Bratislava K1 bronze 2017 Pau K1 team bronze 2017 Pau K1 European Canoe Championships gold 2005 Tacen K1 team silver 2005 Tacen K1 gold 2006 L'Argentière-la-Bessée K1 team gold 2007 Liptovský Mikuláš K1 team silver 2007 Liptovský Mikuláš K1 gold 2010 Cunovo K1 bronze 2010 Cunovo K1 team gold 2011 La Seu d'Urgell K1 team gold 2018 Prague K1 bronze 2018 Prague K1 team
last change: June 2, 2019

Peter Kauzer (born September 8, 1983 in Trbovlje ) is a Slovenian canoeist in canoe slalom . He was Olympic runner-up in 2016 and world champion in 2009 and 2011 in a single kayak .

Athletic career

Peter Kauzer started canoeing in Hrastnik at the age of six , and was instructed by his father Peter Kauzer sr, who was an active canoeist himself. The 1.77 m tall Peter Kauzer jr started his career for Steklarna Hrastnik and has also been internationally active since 2001. In 2002 he started at European championships for the first time, and in 2003 he made his debut at world championships.

In June 2005 the European Championships took place in Ljubljana-Tacen. Kauzer won the silver medal in the single kayak behind Helmut Oblinger from Austria and the gold medal in the team competition of single kayak drivers together with Dejan Kralj and Andrej Nolimal . At the 2005 World Championships in Penrith , he finished 17th in the individual competition. The Slovenes won bronze in the team competition. In 2006 at the European Championships in L'Argentière-la-Bessée , Kauzer was fourth in the individual competition. In the team competition Kauzer and Kralj won together with Jure Meglič . At the 2006 World Championships in Prague, he finished eighth in the individual standings and fourth with the team. In 2007 the European Championships took place in Liptovský Mikuláš , Slovakia . In the individual competition, Kauzer won silver behind the Slovak Ján Šajbidor , together with Kralj and Meglič he won the team competition. At the 2007 World Championships in Foz do Iguaçu , he finished 15th in the individual and fifth with the team. Kauzer also remained medalless at the European Championships in 2008 in Krakow, where he reached fifth place in the individual and fourth place with the team. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Peter Kauzer took 13th place.

In 2009 Kauzer reached fourth place in the individual ranking and sixth place with the team at the European Championships in Nottingham. He was more successful at the 2009 World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell . Although he finished sixth with the team as in Nottingham. But in the individual competition he won the title before the French Boris Neveu . In 2010 Kauzer won the individual competition at the European Championships in Bratislava-Cunovo, in the team competition Kauzer, Kralj and Meglič received the bronze medal. At the World Championships in Tacen Kauzer came ninth in the individual competition, the team disappointed in front of their own audience with 16th place. The following year, the Slovenian team with Peter Kauzer, Jure Meglič and Simon Brus won the European Championships in La Seu d'Urgell , in the individual competition Kauzer came in 37th place. At the 2011 World Championships in Cunovo, the result of the European Championships was reversed. The team ended up in 17th place, but Peter Kauzer won his second title in singles, this time ahead of Poland's Mateusz Polaczyk . For this he was voted Sportsman of the Year in Slovenia . At the European Championships in 2012 on the Augsburger Eiskanal , Kauzer came in sixth place in the individual ranking and eighth place with the team. The canoe slalom competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games were held at the Lee Valley White Water Center , with Kauzer finishing sixth in the final.

Peter Kauzer at the 2016 European Championships

In 2013, Kauzer finished ninth in the individual and tenth place with the team at the 2013 European Championships in Krakow. With 18th place in the individual ranking and sixth place with the team, things didn't go much better at the World Championships in Prague either. In 2014 he took seventh place in the singles and eighth place with the team in Vienna, at the 2014 World Championships he was not at the start after a shoulder operation. In 2015, at the European Championships in Markkleeberg, he came fifth in the individual and sixth with the team. At the 2015 World Championships on the 2012 Olympic course, he was fourth in the individual standings and eighth with a team. In 2016 came fourth place in the individual and eleventh place for the team at the European Championships in Liptovský Mikuláš. Kauzer had not won an international medal since his world championship title in 2011. The canoe slalom competitions at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were held in the X-Park Deodoro . Kauzer moved into the finals in twelfth place in the qualification and fourth in the semi-finals. In the final, Briton Joseph Clarke won 0.17 seconds ahead of Kauzer, who won the silver medal.

At the 2017 World Championships in Pau, Kauzer won two bronze medals. In the individual, he finished third behind the Czechs Ondrej Tunka and Vít Přindiš , the team championship was won by the Czechs ahead of the French and Slovenes, who competed with Peter Kauzer, Martin Srabotnik and Žan Jakše . In 2018 Kauzer won the European Championships in Prague ahead of Vít Přindiš, the team with Srabotnik and Niko Tests won bronze. At the 2018 World Championships on the 2016 Olympic course, Kauzer was tenth in the individual ranking and ninth with the team.

Web links

• Peter Kauzer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (with the results of the Olympic Games)
• Portrait at canoeicf.com (with the World Cup and European Championship results up to 2016)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Is Peter Kauzer ready to show the world what he can do? (Article on canoeicf from March 2, 2018)
2. ↑ [ = 3045 # event] Results EM 2018 on canoeresults.eu
3. ↑ [ = 3415 # event] Results World Cup 2018 on canoeresults.eu