Oliver Kegel

Oliver Kegel

Medal record
Men’s canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	K-4 1000 m
World Championships
	1991 Paris	K-4 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-4 10000 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-4 1000 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-4 10000 m
	1991 Paris	K-4 1000 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-4 500 m
	1987 Dusiburg	K-4 10000 m
	1994 Mexico City	K-4 1000 m

Oliver Kegel (born June 14, 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.

Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1991), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1994, K-4 10000 m: 1987).

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05).
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• New York Times article on doping prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics featuring Hofmann.
• Sports-reference.com profile