Tomasz Wylenzek

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Men's canoeing
Olympic medal record
Gold	2004 Sydney	C-2 500m
Gold	2004 Sydney	C-2 1000m

Tomasz Wylenzek (born January 9, 1983 in Świerklaniec, Poland) is a German flatwater canoer who already has three major championship titles to his name.

Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at Curitiba, Brazil. The following year, still only 19, he was promoted to the German senior squad as C-2 partner for the more experienced Christian Gille. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville, they finished 7th in the 500m final.

At Wylenzek's first Olympics, Athens 2004, he and Gille won a shock gold in the C-2 1000m.

In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event, showing that their Athens victory had been no one-off. A clean sweep of medals (200m, 500m and 1000m) at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500m and 1000m) at the 2005 Flatwater Racing World Championships in Zagreb.

2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years. Gille and Wylenzek lost out to Stefan Holtz and Robert Nuck in the German C2 500m trial and were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance. Wylenzek was philosophical as they lost their other titles too, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships (European C2 1000m and world C2 200m).

Wylenzek lives in Essen. He is 183 cm tall (6 ft O) and weighs 85 kg (187 lbs).