Viktoria Black

Viktoria Black (2013)

Viktoria Black

nation

Austria

birthday

07/02/1985

place of birth

Linz , Austria

size

173 cm

Career

discipline

Canoe racing

Boat class

Single kayak (K1)
Double kayak (K2)

Trainer

Stjepan Janić (since 2018)

National squad

since 2008 Olympic Team Austria

Medal table

World championships	1 gold ×	1 silver ×	1 bronze ×
World cup	6 gold ×	8 silver ×	11 bronze ×
Austrian champion	20 gold ×	0 ×	0 ×

Viktoria Schwarz (born July 2, 1985 in Linz ) is an Austrian canoeist .

Career

At the age of 19, Schwarz won her first medal at the Canoe Racing World Championships in Zagreb in 2005. Together with her canoe partner Petra Schlitzer, she won the silver medal as a duo. Schwarz qualified with Yvonne Schuring for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where they finished ninth in the canoe competition .

At the canoe racing world championships in 2010 they won the bronze medal together in a two-man kayak over 500 m. In the following year, the duo achieved a sensation at the 2011 World Championships in Szeged : world champions and world record over 500 m in a two-man kayak. In 2012, as part of the Austrian delegation , they took part in the canoe races of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and achieved fifth place.

Viktoria Schwarz and Ana Roxana Lehaci , both from the Schnecke Linz association , have been part of a two- person kayak (K2) team since 2013 .

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Viktoria Schwarz started in the K1 200 m discipline. In her third Olympic Games, she had to give up in the semifinals due to injury. 10 weeks earlier, Schwarz had broken her left shoulder in an accident.

Viktoria Schwarz (r.) With Yvonne Schuring at the official farewell to the Austrian Olympic team in 2012

Awards

2011: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
2011: Team of the year in Upper Austria

Web links

Commons : Viktoria Schwarz - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Viktoria Schwarz's website
Viktoria Schwarz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Schwarz and Lehaci in an interview . Article dated December 21, 2017, accessed June 24, 2018.
↑ For a year without a national coach: Dad helps out for the Canoe World Cup | Viktoria Black . Retrieved June 24, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Black, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Black, Vicki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd July 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz

[1] Schwarz and Lehaci in an interview . Article dated December 21, 2017, accessed June 24, 2018.

[2] For a year without a national coach: Dad helps out for the Canoe World Cup | Viktoria Black . Retrieved June 24, 2018.