Tibor Linka

Tibor Linka
Tibor Linka at the 2016 Olympic Games
nation	Slovakia
birthday	13 February 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Dunajská Streda ,  Slovakia
size	199 cm
Weight	105 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe print
Boat class	Quad kayak
society	Kayak Canoe Club Samorin
Trainer	Marián Tesárik Peter Liker
National squad	since 2015
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-4 1000 m Canoe World Championships gold 2015 Milan K-4 1000 m European Canoe Championships gold 2016 Moscow K-4 1000 m silver 2016 Moscow K-4 500 m
last change: May 24, 2020

Tibor Linka (born February 13, 1995 in Dunajská Streda ) is a Slovak canoeist .

Career

Tibor Linka moved up from the juniors to the Slovak four-man kayak team in 2015 . In 2015 he became world champion over 1000 meters together with Erik Vlček , Juraj Tarr and Denis Myšák . A year later, the quartet also won the European Championship over the same distance in Moscow . The team also won silver over 500 meters.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , the European champions started in the 1000 m race and finished second behind the Germans.

Web links

• Tibor Linka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )