Thomas Lück

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Thomas Lück, born 29 January 1981 in (East) Berlin, is a German flatwater canoer and current (2006) world and European champion.

A junior world champion from 1998 (C2 1000m with Stefan Holtz), Lück won three medals at the 2004 European Under-23 Championships in Poznań, including the C2 1000m gold with Stephan Breuing.

In 2005 he won his first senior title in 2005 as a member of the German four-man Canadian canoe crew which became European champions in the C4 1000m and won two bronze medals (C4 200m and C4 500m. At the world championships in Zagreb, Croatia they were bronze medallists over 1000m but finished in fourth place, just outside the medals, in the other two distances.

Lück and his team-mates retained their 1000m European title in 2006 in Račice, Czech Republic. In the final they set a new official world record of 3:14.459, smashing the old record by over a second. They then went on to become world champions for the first time in Szeged, Hungary.

Lück, who now lives in Rostock, is a member of the SC Neubrandenburg club.