Gunar Kirchbach

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold 1996 Atlanta C-2 1000 m
World Championships
Gold 1994 Mexico City C-2 1000 m
Gold 1997 Dartmouth C-2 1000 m
Bronze 1993 Copenhagen C-2 500 m
Bronze 1995 Duisburg C-2 500 m
Bronze 1995 Duisburg C-2 1000 m

Gunar Kirchbach (born 12 October 1971) is a German sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, together with teammate Andreas Dittmer.

Kirchbach also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (C-2 1000 m: 1994, 1997) and three bronzes (C-2 500 m: 1993, 1995; C-2 1000 m: 1995).

References

1936: Czechoslovakia (Vladimír Syrovátka, Jan Brzák-Felix) • 1948: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix, Bohumil Kudrna) • 1952: Denmark (Bent Peder Rasch, Finn Haunstoft) • 1956: Romania (Alexe Dumitru, Simion Ismailciuc) • 1960: Soviet Union (Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko) • 1964: Soviet Union (Andrei Khimich, Stepan Oshchepkov) • 1968: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Serghei Covaliov) • 1972: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas, Yuri Lobanov) • 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Petrenko, Aleksandr Vinogradov) • 1980 – 1984: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Toma Simionov) • 1988: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky, Nicolae Juravschi) • 1992: Germany (Ulrich Papke, Ingo Spelly) • 1996: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach, Andreas Dittmer) • 2000: Romania (Mitică Pricop, Florin Popescu) • 2004: Germany (Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek) • 2008: Belarus (Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich)
1938: Germany (Rupert Weinstabl & Karl Proisl) * 1950: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix & Bohumil Kudrna) * 1954: Austria (Kurt Liebhart & Engelbert Lulla) * 1958: Romania (Alexe Dumitru & Simion Ismailciuc) * 1963: Romania (Achim Sidorov & Alexe Iacovici) * 1966: Romania (Vicol Calabiciov & Serghei Covaliov) * 1970: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov) * 1971: Hungary (Tamás Wichmann & Gyula Petrikovics) * 1973: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Serghei Covaliov) * 1974: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov) * 1975: Hungary (Gábor Arva & Péter Povázsay) * 1977: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov) * 1978: Hungary (Tamás Buday & Oszkár Frey) * 1979: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov) * 1981: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov) * 1982: Hungary (János Sarsui Kis & Gyula Hajdu) * 1983: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov) * 1985: East Germany (Olaf Heukrodt & Alexander Schuck) * 1986: Hungary (János Sarsui Kis & István Vaskuti) * 1987: Soviet Union (Yuriy Gurin & Valeriy Veshko) * 1989: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson) * 1990: East Germany (Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly) * 1991: Germany (Ulrich Papke & Ingo Spelly) * 1993: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson) * 1994: Germany (Andreas Dittmer & Gunar Kirchbach) * 1995: Hungary (György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth) * 1997: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach & Matthias Röder) * 1998: Russia (Aleksandr Kovalyov & Aleksandr Kostoglod) * 1999: Russia (Aleksandr Kovalyov & Aleksandr Kostoglod) * 2001: Poland (Marcin Kobierski & Michał Śliwiński) * 2002: Poland (Marcin Kobierski & Michał Śliwiński) * 2003: Romania (Silviu Simioncencu & Florin Popescu) * 2005: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2006: Hungary (György Kozmann & György Kolonics) * 2007: Germany (Christian Gille & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2009: Germany (Erik Leue & Tomasz Wylenzek) * 2010: Romania (Alexandru Dumitrescu & Victor Mihalachi) * 2011: Germany (Stefan Holtz & Tomasz Wylenzek)