Slavomír Kňazovický
Slavomír Kňazovický | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Slovakia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | May 3, 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Piešťany , Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 191 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 98 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Canoe print | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boat class | One canoe , four canoe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Dukla Trenčín | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Slavomír Kňazovický (born May 3, 1967 in Piešťany ) is a former Slovak canoeist .
Career
Kňazovický finished fourth at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in a race with the C-1 over 500 m and thus just missed a medal. Two years later he won the bronze medal at the world championships in the four-man canoe over 500 meters together with Peter Páleš , Csaba Orosz and Juraj Filip .
From then on he started in the single canoe . At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , he was able to win silver in the race with the C-1 over 500 m . In the following year he became European champion in single canoes over 200 meters . At the 1998 World Championships , he won silver in the same discipline.
One year before his third participation in the Olympics at the 2000 Games in Sydney , he secured bronze medals at both the World and European Championships . In Sydney he was the flag bearer of the Slovak delegation. However, he could not defend his silver medal in the C-1 over 500 m .
After his career he started to work as a coach of Ľubomír Beňo and Matej Rusnák .
Web links
- Slavomír Kňazovický in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Kňazovický, Slavomír |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak canoeists |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Piešťany , Czechoslovakia |