Martin Doktor

Martin " Boban " Doctor ( born May 21, 1974 in Polička, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech canoeist. He was two -time winner at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Career

In a boat he sat for the first time four years ago, at age seven, he started in Pardubice with the training, then still in the kayak. In 1986 he began canoeing and was founded in 1992 in Hamburg by the wayside over 1,000 m junior world champion in the one - Canadians.

Doctor took part in three Olympic Games and launched in each case the one-man canoes. In 1996 he won gold in Atlanta over both distances ( 500 m and 1,000 m ), 2000 in Sydney, he finished each eighth grade and in 2004 he was in Athens over the 500 meters and fifth of the 1,000 m fourth.

The Canoe Racing World Championships 1995 Doctor took over the two - C1 distances each silver. In 1997, he was about 500 meters the world title and more than 200 and 1000 m again win silver. 1998 Doctor was world champion in the 200 meters, won the silver medal over 1000 m and together with Petr Netušil Jan Macháč and Viktor Jiráský four-man Canadian bronze over 1000 m. Also from the Canoe Sprint World Championships in 1999, he returned with three medals in the home one - canoe disciplines: Silver 200 and 500 as well as bronze over 1000 m. After he became in 2001 Vice World Champion over 1000m, he again won silver and bronze over 200 over 500 m at the Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2003.