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Andreas Dittmer

Andreas Dittmer
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Personal information
Born (1972-04-16) April 16, 1972 (age 44)
Neustrelitz, Germany
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta C-2 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens C-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens C-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney C-1 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1994 Mexico City C-2 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 1997 Dartmouth C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2001 Poznań C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2002 Seville C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Gainesville C-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2003 Gainesville C-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2005 Zagreb C-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2005 Zagreb C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 1998 Szeged C-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place 1999 Milan C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2006 Szeged C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2007 Duisburg C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Paris C-4 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Copenhagen C-1 10000 m
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Copenhagen C-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Duisburg C-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Duisburg C-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Szeged C-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Milan C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Poznań C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Seville C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Gainesville C-1 200 m

Andreas Dittmer (born 16 April 1972 in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German sprint canoeist. The dominant sprint canoeist of his generation in 1000 m races, he has won three Olympic and eight world championship gold medals.

Dittmer won his first world championship medal - a bronze - at Paris in 1991 as a member of Germany's C-4 500 m crew. In 1994 he won the C-2 1000 m world championship with Gunar Kirchbach. At the 1996 Olympics the pair won the gold medal in the same event.

Now established as Germany's top canoe sprinter he was selected for the C-1 event and won the C-1 1000 m world title at his first attempt in Dartmouth, Canada in 1997.

At Sydney 2000 he won the C-1 1000 m gold as well as the bronze in the 500 m race. He then won three consecutive C-1 1000 m world titles (2001, 2002, 2003). In 2003 he also won his first world 500 m title, finally defeating four-time champion Maxim Opalev of Russia to claim his first "double". At the European championships too he won three straight gold medals in his specialist 1000 m event, but had to be content with four consecutive silver medals behind Opalev in the 500 m.

Dittmer went to the 2004 Summer Olympics as the overwhelming favourite for the 1000 m gold medal, having been undefeated in major finals for over four years.. However he was surprisingly beaten by Spain's David Cal, who finished just 0.52 second ahead of Dittmer's time of 3:46.721.


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