Denis Myšák

Denis Myšák

Myšák at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Slovakia
Born	(1995-11-30) 30 November 1995 (age 21) Bojnice, Slovakia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Club	SKP Bratislava KRK Novaky
Coached by	Peter Liker
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 1 0 0 European Championships 1 1 0 European Games 0 0 0 Total 2 2 0 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-4 1000 m World Championships 2015 Milan K-4 1000 m European Championships 2016 Moscow K-4 1000 m 2016 Moscow K-4 500 m

Denis Myšák (born 30 November 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer. He competes in K-4 events and won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics .

He took up the sport at age eight. Because of his successes in junior category, he was named Slovak Junior Kayaker of the Year in 2012 and 2013. At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Tibor Linka. Next year, again with Linka, they finished second in the U23 race. In 2015 he became part of Slovak K-4 team, which had won many medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. With Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Tibor Linka, they won K-4 1000 metres race at the 2015 World Championships. In 2016, the same team won one gold and one silver medal at the 2016 European Championships, showing good form before the main objective of the season, the Olympic Games, where they competed in the K-4 1000 m category as the reigning World Champions and managed to win the silver medal.