Tibor Linka

Linka at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Slovak
Born	(1995-02-13) 13 February 1995 (age 29)[1] Šamorín, Slovakia
Height	199 cm (6 ft 6 in)[2]
Weight	105 kg (231 lb)
Sport
Club	Kajak Canoe Klub Samorin[3]
Coached by	Marian Tesarik[3]
Medal record Representing  Slovakia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-4 1000 m World Championships 2015 Milan K-4 1000 m European Championships 2016 Moscow K-4 1000 m 2016 Moscow K-4 500 m

Tibor Linka (Hungarian: Linka Tibor, born 13 February 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of Šamorín.^[3] He is of Hungarian ethnicity.^[4]

Career

At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák.^[5] Next year, again with Myšák, they finished second in the U23 race.^[6] In 2015 he became part of Slovak K-4 team, which had won many medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. With Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Denis Myšák, they won K-4 1000 metres race at the 2015 World Championships.^[7] In 2016, the same team won one gold ^[8] and one silver medal ^[9] at the 2016 European Championships, showing good form before the main objective of the season, the Olympic Games, where they competed in the K-4 1000 m category as the reigning World Champions and managed to win the silver medal.

References

External links

Media related to Tibor Linka at Wikimedia Commons

• Tibor Linka at the International Canoe Federation
• Tibor Linka at Olympedia
• Tibor Linka at Olympics.com
• Tibor Linka at Olympic.org (archived)
• Tibor Linka at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)

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