Tibor Linka

Tibor Linka

Linka at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Slovak
Born	(1995-02-13) 13 February 1995 Šamorín, Slovakia
Height	199 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	105 kg (231 lb)
Sport
Club	Kajak Canoe Klub Samorin
Coached by	Marian Tesarik
Medal record Representing Slovakia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-4 1000 m World Championships Gold medal – first place 2015 Milan K-4 1000 m European Championships Gold medal – first place 2016 Moscow K-4 1000 m 2016 Moscow K-4 500 m

Tibor Linka (Hungarian: Linka Tibor, born 13 February 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of Šamorín. He is of Hungarian ethnicity.

Career

At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák. Next year, again with Myšák, 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 Denis Myšák, 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.

External links

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• Tibor Linka at the International Canoe Federation
• Tibor Linka at Olympedia
• Tibor Linka at Olympics.com
• Tibor Linka at Olympic.org (archived)
• Tibor Linka at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)