Fritz Briel

Fritz Briel

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place	1956 Melbourne	K-2 10000 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place	1958 Prague	K-1 1000 m
Gold medal – first place	1958 Prague	K-1 4 x 500 m
Gold medal – first place	1963 Jajce	K-1 10000 m
Bronze medal – third place	1966 East Berlin	K-1 10000 m

Fritz Briel (24 October 1934 – 15 March 2017) was a German sprint canoeist, born in Düsseldorf, who competed in from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Briel also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 1000 m: 1958, K-1 10000 m: 1963, K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958) and one bronze (K-1 10000 m: 1966).

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)
• Fritz Briel's obituary (in German)