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Full name | Marcus Cooper Walz | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Oxford, United Kingdom |
October 3, 1994 |||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Majorca | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe racing | |||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Reial Club Nàutic Portopetro | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcus Cooper Walz (born 3 October 1994) is a Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed internationally since the early 2010s. He won the gold medal in the K-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Born in Oxford, United Kingdom to an English father and a German mother, the family established in Majorca when Walz was 3 month old.