Tibor Linka Explained

Tibor Linka
Nationality:Slovak
Club:Kajak Canoe Klub Samorin[1]
Coach:Marian Tesarik
Birth Date:1995 2, df=yes[2]
Birth Place:Šamorín, Slovakia
Height:199 cm[3]
Weight:105 kg

Tibor Linka (hu|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.[1] He is of Hungarian ethnicity.[4]

Career

At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák.[5] Next year, again with Myšák, they finished second in the U23 race.[6] 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.[7] In 2016, the same team won one gold [8] and one silver medal [9] 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

Notes and References

  1. http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=linka-tibor-1162691/index.html Tibor Linka
  2. Web site: Tibor Linka ICF profile. 19 August 2016. www.canoeicf.com. International Canoe Federation.
  3. https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/tibor-linka Tibor Linka
  4. Web site: Linka Tibor a riói előolimpián. hu. János Méry. felvidek.ma. 12 September 2015. 23 September 2021.
  5. Web site: Results K2 500m Men. 30 June 2013. 19 August 2016. ecsprint.kayakpl.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160822135109/http://ecsprint.kayakpl.com/results/184.HTM. 22 August 2016.
  6. Web site: Results K2 U23 500m Men. 29 June 2014. 19 August 2016. mantesenyvelinescanoe2014.spotfokus.pt.
  7. Web site: Results Race 266 – K4 1000m. 23 August 2015. 19 August 2016. canoe2015.microplustiming.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160616034220/http://canoe2015.microplustiming.com/pdf/CLS-ASM-K4m1000-FINALE-01.pdf. 16 June 2016.
  8. Web site: Results K4 Men 1000m. 26 June 2016. 19 August 2016. europecanoeevents.com. European Canoe Association. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160820105201/http://europecanoeevents.com/uploads/XML_Provas/18/pdf/90.pdf. 2016-08-20.
  9. Web site: Results K4 Men 500m. 25 June 2016. 19 August 2016. europecanoeevents.com. European Canoe Association. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160820113625/http://europecanoeevents.com/uploads/XML_Provas/18/pdf/56.pdf. 20 August 2016.

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