Max Hoff (canoeist)
Max Hoff ( born September 12, 1982 in Troisdorf ) is a German canoeist. He drove originally kayak in white water, but increased in 2007 to the Olympic canoe racing around.
Max Hoff studied biology at the University of Cologne. He is coached by Stephan Stiefenhöfer. Originally Hoff came from whitewater canoeing. He started in 1994 at STV Siegburg, 2000, he joined the club for water sports Blau-Weiss Köln. In canoe racing Hoff joined 2000-2008 for the ECST Raunheim on, for the 2009 season, he moved in this discipline to his club Cologne. As of the 2011 season he will start for KG food.
2000 Hoff was at the World Championships in Sterzing the one-man kayak world champion in the team and second in the singles and German junior champion. In 2001 he took his first national title in the men's area, which he successfully defended in 2002. In the double kayak he won in 2005 with Stiefenhöfer the Marathon des Gorges de l' Ardèche, was in One German champion, winner of the Germany Cup and eleventh overall in the World Cup. In 2006, he reached his greatest success at the World Championships in Karlovy Vary and was world champion in the individual competition whitewater sprint and Vice World Champion on the Classic distance and third with the team. Added to this was the German championship (Classic) and fourth in the overall World Cup standings. Two recovered marathon race in two and a second ranking round out the result of the year. 2007 Hoff won the European title in Bihać in Whitewater Classic and was each Vice European Champion with the Classic and Sprint team. He also won the title of South African river marathon champion.
In 2007 he moved from the non-Olympic sports to the Olympic whitewater canoe racing. At the European Championships 2007, Hoff fourth in the one - kayak over 1000 meters at the 2007 World Championships he reached in the same discipline rank ten. In 2008 he won the bronze medal at the European Championships and secured the German Canoe Association so that an Olympic starting place in this discipline. With a sixth place at the World Cup race in Duisburg, he was able to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. In competitions where he won by a superior semi-final victory in fifth in the final race. His first international racing title won Hoff at the European Championships 2009 One - kayak over 1000 meters. At the 2009 World Championships he also won gold in the one - kayak over 1000 meters. The canoe racing 2010 European Championships he won gold in the one - kayak over 1000 meters. The same discipline he was able to win in August at the World Championships in Poznan ( Poland). In the years 2009-2011 he won three times in a row league titles in one kayak over 1000 meters. At the 2012 Olympics Hoff won the bronze medal in the one - kayak over 1000 meters. In 2013, Hoff won a total of two more international titles. He won at the European Championships 2013 in Montemor -o -Velho (Portugal) One kayak 5.000m the title and also at the World Championships in 2013 in Duisburg One kayak than 1.000m. To this was added a silver medal and a bronze medal at the European Championships in the K1 1000m and 500m.