Václav Havel (canoer)

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Silver 1948 London C-2 10000 m
World Championships
Bronze 1950 Copenhagen C-2 1000 m
Men's canoe slalom
World Championships
Gold 1957 Augsburg C-2 team
Silver 1951 Steyr C-2 team
Silver 1957 Augsburg C-2
Silver 1959 Geneva C-2
Silver 1959 Geneva C-2 team
Bronze 1951 Steyr C-2
Bronze 1953 Meran C-2 team

Václav Havel (October 5, 1920 – December 14, 1979) was a Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoer who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. He was born in Prague (where he also died).

Havel won a silver medal in the C-2 10,000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1,000 m event at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen.

He also competed in slalom canoeing, winning three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in the C-2 event. This included two silvers (1957, 1959) and a bronze (1951).

References

1949: France (Michel Duboille/Jacques Rosseau, Claude Neveu/Roger Paris & René Gavinet/Simon Gavinet) · 1951: France (Pierre d'Alençon/Jean Dreux, Jacques Musson/André Pean & Claude Neveu/Roger Paris) · 1953: France (René Gavinet/Simon Gavinet, Claude Neveu/Roger Paris & Pierre d'Alençon/Jean-Luc Houssaye) · 1955: Czechoslovakia (František Hrabě/Jiří Kotana, Vladimír Lánský/Josef Hendrych & Rudolf Flégr/Milan Řehoř) · 1957: Czechoslovakia (Rudolf Fleger/Milan Řehoř, Václav Havel/Josef Hendrych & František Hrabě/Jiří Kotana) · 1959: East Germany (Dieter Friedrich/Horst Kleinert, Dieter Göthe/Lothar Schubert & Manfred Glöckner/Rudolf Seifert) · 1961: East Germany (Gernot Bergmann/Horst Rosenhagen, Dieter Friedrich/Horst Kleinert & Günther Merkel/Manfred Merkel) · 1963: East Germany (Siegfried Lück/Jürgen Noak, Günther Merkel/Manfred Merkel & Manfred Glöckner/Rudolf Seifert) · 1965: Czechoslovakia (Ladislav Měšťan/Zdeněk Měšťan, Emil Pollert/Jaroslav Pollert & Jaroslav Brejcha/Milan Kalas) · 1967: East Germany (Ulrich Hippauf/Willi Landers, Siegfried Lück/Jürgen Noak & Günther Merkel/Manfred Merkel) · 1969: West Germany (Karl-Heinz Scheffer/Heinz-Jürgen Steinschulte, Manfred Heß/Wolfgang Wenzel & Hermann Roock/Norbert Schmidt) · 1971: East Germany (Rolf-Dieter Amend/Walter Hofmann, Klaus Trummer/Jürgen Kretschmer & Uwe Franz/Ulrich Opelt) · 1973: West Germany (Olaf Fricke/Michael Reimann, Karl-Heinz Scheffer/Heinz-Jürgen Steinschulte & Wilhelm Baues/Hans-Otto Schumacher) · 1975: East Germany (Rolf-Dieter Amend/Walter Hofmann, Herbert Fischer/Jürgen Henze & Klaus Trummer/Jürgen Kretschmer) · 1977: Czechoslovakia (Jiří Benhák/Ladislav Benhák, Radomír Halfar/Svetomír Kmostak & Miroslav Nedvěd/Pavel Schwarc) · 1979: Poland (Wojciech Kudlik/Jerzy Jeż, Jan Frączek/Ryszard Seruga & Zbigniew Czaja/Jacek Kasprzycki) · 1981: Great Britain (Jock Young/Alistair Munro, Robert Joce/Robert Owen & Eric Jamieson/Robin Williams) · 1983: Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Hajdučík/Milan Kučera, Dušan Zaťko/Ľudovít Tkáč & František Slavík/Jiří Decastelo) · 1985: Czechoslovakia (Jiří Rohan/Miroslav Šimek, Miroslav Hajdučík/Milan Kučera & Viktor Beneš/Ondřej Mohout) · 1987: France (Pierre Calori/Jacques Calori, Michel Saidi/Jerome Daval & Gilles Lelievre/Jerome Daille) · 1989: France (Emmanuel del Rey/Thierry Saidi, Michel Saidi/Jerome Daval & Gilles Lelievre/Jerome Daille) · 1991: France (Frank Adisson/Wilfrid Forgues, Thierry Saidi/Emmanuel del Rey & Gilles Lelievre/Jerome Daille) · 1993: Czech Republic (Marek Jiras/Tomáš Máder, Petr Štercl/Pavel Štercl & Jiří Rohan/Miroslav Šimek) · 1995: Czech Republic (Jiří Rohan/Miroslav Šimek, Petr Štercl/Pavel Štercl & Jaroslav Pospíšil/Jaroslav Pollert) · 1997: France (Frank Adisson/Wilfrid Forgues, Emmanuel del Rey/Thierry Saidi & Eric Biau/Bertrand Daille) · 1999: Czech Republic (Marek Jiras/Tomáš Máder, Jaroslav Volf/Ondřej Štěpánek & Jaroslav Pospíšil/Jaroslav Pollert) · 2002: France (Pierre Luquet/Christophe Luquet, Alexandre Lauvergne/Nathanael Fouquet & Philippe Quemerais/Yann le Pennec) · 2003: Czech Republic (Jaroslav Volf/Ondřej Štěpánek, Jaroslav Pospíšil/Jaroslav Pollert & Marek Jiras/Tomáš Máder) · 2005: Non-medal event · 2006: Czech Republic (Marek Jiras/Tomáš Máder, Jaroslav Volf/Ondřej Štěpánek & Jaroslav Pospíšil/Jaroslav Pollert) · 2007: Czech Republic (Jaroslav Volf/Ondřej Štěpánek, Marek Jiras/Tomáš Máder & Jaroslav Pospíšil/David Mrůzek) · 2009: Slovakia (Pavol Hochschorner/Peter Hochschorner, Ladislav Škantár/Peter Škantár & Tomáš Kučera/Ján Bátik) · 2010: France (Denis Gargaud Chanut/Fabien Lefèvre, Gauthier Klauss/Matthieu Peche & Pierre Picco/Hugo Biso) · 2011: France (Gauthier Klauss/Matthieu Peche, Pierre Labarelle/Nicolas Peschier & Denis Gargaud Chanut/Fabien Lefèvre)