Stefan Kapłaniak
Appearance
![]() Stefan Kapłaniak as a Men's K-2 1000 metres medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 10 April 1933 Szczawnica, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 August 2021 Chicago, U.S. | (aged 88)||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stefan Kapłaniak "Cenek" (10 April 1933 – 8 August 2021) was a Polish canoe sprinter who competed from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Rome in 1960.
Kapłaniak also won two gold medals at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague, earning them in the K-1 500 m and K-2 500 m events.
References
[edit]- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)
- (in Polish) Profile at Polish Olympic Committee website
External links
[edit]- Stefan Kapłaniak at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1933 births
- 2021 deaths
- Canoeists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists for Poland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Polish male canoeists
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- People from Nowy Targ County
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
- Polish canoeist stubs
- Polish Olympic medalist stubs