Thomas Becker (canoeist born 1967)

Thomas Becker ( born July 6, 1967 in Hilden ) is a former German canoeist. He was third in the 1996 Olympic canoe slalom.

Becker won at the 1991 World Championships in Tacen along with Michael and Michael Seibert Glöckle behind the French team the silver medal. When the canoe slalom standing at the Olympic Games in 1992 after twenty years back on the program, Becker was the one-man kayak with it, but difference in the qualification as 26th out. At the 1995 World Championships in Nottingham Becker finished second in the individual standings to fourth place in the team competition he won with Oliver Fix and Jochen Lettmann. Oliver Fix, the world champion in 1995, also won at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, behind the Slovenes Andraž Vehovar Becker won the bronze medal. 1997 at the World Cup in Brazil Três Coroas Becker won the title in the individual competition, the team he finished with Lettmann and Holger Haeffner third place. 1998 Becker won his first national title in one kayak, 1999 and 2001 should be followed by two more. At the World Championship 1999 in the Spanish La Seu d'Urgell, the German team with Becker, Ralf Schaberg and James Stenglein won the team title. His third world title in the team competition was won by Becker in 2002 in Bourg St. -Maurice, together with Claus Suchanek and Thomas Schmidt.