Richard Fox (canoeist)

For other people named Richard Fox, see Richard Fox (disambiguation).
Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
Competitor for  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold 1979 Jonquière K-1 team
Gold 1981 Bala K-1
Gold 1981 Bala K-1 team
Gold 1983 Meran K-1
Gold 1983 Meran K-1 team
Gold 1985 Augsburg K-1
Gold 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team
Gold 1989 Savage River K-1
Gold 1993 Mezzana K-1
Gold 1993 Mezzana K-1 team
Bronze 1979 Jonquière K-1

Richard Fox (born 6 May 1960) is a British-born, Australian slalom canoeist who competed for Great Britain from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with ten golds (K-1: 1981, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1993; K-1 team: 1979, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1993) and a bronze (K-1: 1979). Fox also won numerous European Championships. No other slalom canoeist achieved the national and international success of Fox in the history of the sport.

Fox also finished fourth in the K-1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Fox originally canoed Nomad Canoes and later moved to paddle a Pyranha designed by Graham Mackereth.

He moved to Australia in 1998 to take up a position as the National Head Coach for the Sydney Olympics. From 2001, Richard was also the Australian Institute of Sport and National Team Head Coach leading the slalom team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Fox was appointed National Performance Director of Australian Canoeing in January 2005 and is now responsible for the Australian Slalom and Sprint High Performance programs through to the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He was a member of the ICF Slalom technical committee from 1996 to 2000 and played an active role in the International Canoe Federation (ICF) campaign to include Slalom in the Sydney 2000 Olympic program. Fox serves as second vice president of the ICF.

His wife, Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, competed as a slalom canoeist for France while his sister Rachel Crosbee competed for Britain in the same event. Fox's daughter Jessica won gold in the girls' K-1 slalom event at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

References

1949 (folding): Othmar Eiterer (AUT) · 1951 (folding): Hans Frühwirth (AUT) · 1953 (folding): Walter Kirschbaum (FRG) · 1955 (folding): Sigi Holzbauer (FRG) · 1957 (folding): Manfred Vogt (FRG) · 1959 (folding): Paul Farrant (GBR) · 1961 (folding): Eberhard Gläser (GDR) · 1963 (folding): Jürgen Bremer (GDR) · 1965: Kurt Presslmayr (AUT) · 1967: Jürgen Bremer (GDR) · 1969: Claude Peschier (FRA) · 1971: Siegbert Horn (GDR) · 1973: Norbert Sattler (AUT) · 1975: Siegbert Horn (GDR) · 1977: Albert Kerr (GBR) · 1979: Peter Fauster (AUT) · 1981: Richard Fox (GBR) · 1983: Richard Fox (GBR) · 1985: Richard Fox (GBR) · 1987: Toni Prijon (FRG) · 1989: Richard Fox (GBR) · 1991: Shaun Pearce (GBR) · 1993: Richard Fox (GBR) · 1995: Oliver Fix (GER) · 1997: Thomas Becker (GER) · 1999: David Ford (CAN) · 2002: Fabien Lefèvre (FRA) · 2003: Fabien Lefèvre (FRA) · 2005: Fabian Dörfler (GER) · 2006: Stefano Cipressi (ITA) & Julien Billaut (FRA) · 2007: Sébastien Combot (FRA) · 2009: Peter Kauzer (SLO) · 2010: Daniele Molmenti (ITA) · 2011: Peter Kauzer (SLO)

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)