Michael Kurt

Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
World Championships
Gold 2003 Augsburg K-1 team

Michael Kurt (born 2 April 1980 in Sumiswald) is a Swiss slalom canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 team event at the 2003 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kurt competed in the K-1 event. He won the qualification round, and progressed to the semifinals. However, at this level, he lost entirely and finished twentieth out of 25.

Kurt competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the K-1 event he finished seventeenth in the qualification round, failing to progress to the semifinals.

He lives in Wiedlisbach.

References

1949 (folding): Switzerland (Werner Zimmermann, Jean Engler & Eduard Kunz) · 1951 (folding): Austria (Hans Frühwirth, Rudolf Pillwein & Othmar Eiterer) · 1953 (folding): Austria (Franz Grafetsberger, Hans Herbist & Rudolf Sausgruber) · 1955 (folding): West Germany (Manfred Vogt, Sigi Holzbauer & Alois Würfmannsdobler) · 1957 (folding): East Germany (Heinz Bielig, Eberhard Gläser & Reinhard Sens) · 1959 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser, Heinz Bielig & Günther Möbius) · 1961 (folding): East Germany (Horst Wängler, Eberhard Gläser & Roland Hahnebach) · 1963 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser, Rolf Luber & Fritz Lange) · 1965: West Germany (Manfred Vogt, Eugen Weimann & Horst Dieter Engelke) · 1967: East Germany (Jürgen Bremer, Christian Döring & Volkmar Fleischer) · 1969: France (Patrick Maccari, Claude Peschier & Alain Colombe) · 1971: Austria (Kurt Presslmayr, Norbert Sattler & Hans Schlecht) · 1973: East Germany (Wolfgang Büchner, Siegbert Horn & Christian Döring) · 1975: West Germany (Ulrich Peters, Dieter Förstl & Bernd Dichtl) · 1977: France (Jean-Yves Prigent, Bernard Renault & Christian Frossard) · 1979: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Albert Kerr & Allan Edge) · 1981: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Albert Kerr & Nicolas Wain) · 1983: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Paul McConkey & Jim Dolan) · 1985: West Germany (Peter Micheler, Toni Prijon & Jürgen Kübler) · 1987: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Melvyn Jones & Russell Smith) · 1989: Yugoslavia (Jernej Abramič, Marjan Štrukelj & Albin Čižman) · 1991: France (Manuel Brissaud, Gilles Clouzeau & Jean-Michel Regnier) · 1993: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Melvyn Jones & Shaun Pearce) · 1995: Germany (Jochen Lettmann, Thomas Becker & Oliver Fix) · 1997: Great Britain (Paul Ratcliffe, Ian Raspin, & Shaun Pearce) · 1999: Germany (Thomas Becker, Ralf Schaberg & Jakobus Stenglein) · 2002: Germany (Claus Suchanek, Thomas Becker & Thomas Schmidt) · 2003: Switzerland (Thomas Mosimann, Mathias Röthenmund & Michael Kurt) · 2005: France (Julien Billaut, Fabien Lefèvre & Benoît Peschier) · 2006: France (Fabien Lefèvre, Julien Billaut & Boris Neveu) · 2007: Germany (Fabian Dörfler, Alexander Grimm & Erik Pfannmöller) · 2009: Czech Republic (Ivan Pišvejc, Vavřinec Hradílek & Michal Buchtel) · 2010: Germany (Alexander Grimm, Fabian Doerfler & Hannes Aigner) · 2011: Germany (Sebastian Schubert, Hannes Aigner & Alexander Grimm)