Sebastian Brendel

Sebastian Brendel ( born March 12, 1988 in Schwedt / Oder ) is a German canoeist.

Brendel operates the Canadian sport since 1996 in Schwedt, but has been training since 2000 at the KC Potsdam. Since September 2008 he is a federal police officer. His sporting breakthrough was in 2005, where he was age 17 at the Junior World Championships double world champion in the one - Canadians in Szeged, Hungary. In 2007 he qualified for the national team for the first time the power class and was at the World Championships in Duisburg Vice World Champion in the four - Canadians. In 2008 he has his claims to a start at the Olympics made ​​it clear from the national sightings as ranked first. At the European Championships in Milan in 2008, he won silver and bronze in the one - Canadians. At the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London he won the gold medal in the one - Canadians.

Honors

  • 2012: Silver bay leaf
  • 2012: Sportsman of the Year by Brandenburg
Summer Olympic Games ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships 2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Leon Rotman Ivan Patzaichin Ulrich Eicke Nikolay Bukhalov Martin Doktor Andreas Dittmer David Cal
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