Stefan Kapłaniak

Stefan Kapłaniak
Stefan Kapłaniak (2nd from right), 1960
nation	Poland
date of birth	April 10, 1933
place of birth	Szczawnica , Poland
size	176 cm
Weight	73 kg
date of death	August 8, 2021
Place of death	Chicago ,  United States
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Kayak (K1, K2, K4)
society	Spójnia Warsaw
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 2 ×
Olympic games bronze Rome 1960 K2 1000 m Canoe World Championships gold Prague 1958 K1 500 m gold Prague 1958 K2 500 m European Canoe Championships bronze Ghent 1957 K1 500 m gold Duisburg 1959 K1 500 m bronze Duisburg 1959 K1 4 × 500 m silver Poznan 1961 K2 500 m
last change: May 6, 2021

Stefan Kapłaniak (born April 10, 1933 in Szczawnica , † August 8, 2021 in Chicago , United States ) was a Polish canoeist .

successes

Stefan Kapłaniak took part in three Olympic Games . When he made his Olympic debut in Melbourne in 1956 , he qualified in a single kayak over 1000 meters thanks to a victory in the preliminary run for the finals , in which he just missed a medal in fourth. In addition, he competed with Jerzy Górski in a two-man kayak in the 10,000 meter competition, which was held in just one final run. The two finished the race in tenth place.

Four years later in Rome he competed in two competitions. In the single kayak, he first took fourth place in the 4 x 500 meter relay before it reached the final thanks to second places in the hope and semi- finals . As fourth they just missed a medal win there. With Władysław Zieliński he started in a two-man kayak on the 1000-meter course and moved into this final with him after third place in the preliminary run and a victory in the semi-finals . In this they crossed the finish line in third place after 3: 37.34 minutes behind the victorious Swedes Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius as well as György Mészáros and András Szente from Hungary and won the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , Kapłaniak only competed again with Władysław Zieliński over 1000 meters. They reached the semi-finals via the repechage , but were eliminated there after finishing fourth in their run.

Even at the European Championships in 1957 took Kapłaniak in Ghent in one kayak over 500 meters third place. In 1958 he became world champion in this discipline in Prague as well as with Władysław Zieliński in a two-man kayak over 500 meters . A year later he won the bronze medal at the European Championships with the 4 x 500 meter relay in a single kayak in Duisburg , while he won the title in a single kayak on the 500 meter course. In 1961 Zieliński won the European Championship silver medal in the 500-meter distance in Poznan .

In his career, Kapłaniak won a total of 30 national championships in different classes. For his services to canoeing, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .

Web links

Commons : Stefan Kapłaniak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stefan Kapłaniak in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Stefan Kapłaniak at Polski Komitet Olimpijski (Polish)
• Stefan Kapłaniak at canoeresults.eu (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1956 Summer Olympics, Kayak Singles, 1,000 meters, Men in Olympedia.org database , accessed May 6, 2021.
2. ↑ 1956 Summer Olympics, Kayak Doubles, 10,000 meters, Men in Olympedia.org database , accessed May 6, 2021.
3. ↑ 1960 Summer Olympics, Kayak Relay 4 x 500 meters, Men in the Olympedia.org database , accessed May 6, 2021.
4. ↑ 1960 Summer Olympics, Kayak Doubles, 1,000 meters, Men in Olympedia.org database , accessed May 6, 2021.
5. ↑ 1964 Summer Olympics, Kayak Doubles, 1,000 meters, Men in Olympedia.org database , accessed May 6, 2021.