Michal Martikán ( Slovak. Michal Martikán ; born , ) - a Slovak canoeist slalom . Participant and medalist of the five Olympic Games . Two-time Olympic champion in 1996 and 2008, twice silver medalist in 2000 and 2004, and also bronze medalist in 2012 games. The first Olympic champion of Slovakia in the new history [1] . Nine times world champion. 4 times recognized as the best athlete of the year in Slovakia (1996, 1997, 2007, 2008). Standard-bearer of the Slovak national team at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
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Biography
Michal Martikan was born on May 18, 1979 in Liptovsky Mikulas. His father, Josef Martikán, is also a canoe slalom. Martikan considers his idol to the British canoeist Richard Fox [2] .
Career
He started rowing at the age of nine. Michal's coach is his father. Since 1999, he has been training annually on the Olympic slalom rowing canal in Penrith [2] .
Olympics
The first performance at the Olympics was participation in Atlanta , which immediately brought Michal a gold medal. The current Olympic champion was Czech Lukas Pollert . In the first round, Martikan took the sixth place, however, due to the strongest second race, he became an Olympic champion, beating Pollert by 0.14 points [3] .
In September 2000, at the Sydney Olympics, Martikan won the qualification [4] , however, in the final round, he lost to Frenchman Tony Estange, who won his first gold Olympic medal [5] .
Four years later, at the Athens Olympics, Martikane won the preliminary rounds again [6] [7] , but lost again to the Frenchman in the final. At the same time, according to the results of the first round (which was the semi-final), he was the first, but in the second he became only the fourth. In total, he lost only 0.12 seconds to Estange. It is worth noting that Michal received a two-second penalty in the last race [8] 20 minutes after the end of the final, being the initial winner [1] .
In Beijing in August 2008, Michal won the qualification again [9] and the semi-final [10] . In the final round, he beat Briton David Florence for more than a second, becoming a two-time Olympic champion [1] . His main rival at the last Olympics did not reach the final, becoming the ninth [11] .
At the fifth for the Olympic Games in London in August 2012, Michal did not remain without medals, thus winning prizes at all five Olympiads, which he took part in. He again turned out to be the best in qualifying [12] , having directly reached the final, but there he could not win again, losing to both longtime rival Estange and German Sideris Taciadis [13] .
Martikan became the most titled athlete in the history of rowing slalom in terms of the number of medals (although Estange won three gold), and he is also a nine-time world champion, four times in the individual championship and five in the team championship [13] .
Awards
- Order of Ludovit Štúr 1 class ( January 1, 2013 ) [14] .
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 Canoeing - Seeing is believing for Slovakia's Martikan (English) , Reuters (12 August 2008). The appeal date is April 24, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Michal Martikán (English) . ICF - Planet Canoe (5 August 2016). The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived October 28, 2017.
- Oe Canoeing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom (Eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived November 15, 2010.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Qualifying (Eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived January 14, 2018.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Final Round (Eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived January 14, 2018.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Qualifying (Eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived July 7, 2017.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Semi-Finals (English) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived July 7, 2017.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Final Round (eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived July 10, 2017.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom (English) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived on October 5, 2012.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Semi-Finals (English) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived February 19, 2019.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Final Round (eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived February 19, 2019.
- Oe Canoeing at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom Qualifying (Eng.) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived July 9, 2017.
- 2 1 2 Canoeing at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Canadian Singles, Slalom (English) . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. The appeal date is April 24, 2019. Archived July 3, 2017.
- ↑ Rad Ľudovíta Štúra, I. trieda Archival copy dated July 7, 2014 on the Wayback Machine (words.)
Links
- Michal Martikan - Olympic statistics on the website Sports-Reference.com (English)