Kurt Wires

Olympic medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Gold 1952 Helsinki K-2 1000 m
Gold 1952 Helsinki K-2 10000 m
Silver 1948 London K-1 10000 m

Kurt Oskar Wires (April 28, 1919, Helsinki - February 22, 1992) was a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two golds (1952: K-2 1000 m, K-2 10000 m) and one silver (1948: K-1 10000 m).

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1936: Austria (Adolf Kainz, Alfons Dorfner) · 1948: Sweden (Hans Berglund, Lennart Klingström) · 1952: Finland (Kurt Wires, Yrjö Hietanen) · 1956: Germany (Michael Scheuer, Meinrad Miltenberger) · 1960: Sweden (Gert Fredriksson, Sven-Olov Sjödelius) · 1964: Sweden (Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Gunnar Utterberg) · 1968: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Volodymyr Morozov) · 1972: Soviet Union (Nikolai Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk) · 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Nahorny, Vladimir Romanovsky) · 1980: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich, Sergei Chukhray) · 1984: Canada (Hugh Fisher, Alwyn Morris) · 1988: United States (Greg Barton, Norman Bellingham) · 1992: Germany (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche) · 1996: Italy (Daniele Scarpa, Antonio Rossi) · 2000: Italy (Antonio Rossi, Beniamino Bonomi) · 2004: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson) · 2008: Germany (Andreas Ihle, Martin Hollstein)
K-1 10000 metres
1936: Ernst Krebs (GER) • 1948: Gert Fredriksson (SWE) • 1952: Thorvald Strömberg (FIN) • 1956: Gert Fredriksson (SWE)
K-2 10000 metres
1936: Germany (Paul Wevers and Ludwig Landen) • 1948: Sweden (Gunnar Åkerlund and Hans Wetterström) • 1952: Finland (Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen) • 1956: Hungary (János Urányi and László Fábián)
K-1 10000 metres folding
K-2 10000 metres folding
K-1 4x500 metre relay