Martin John Hunter ( born Martin John Hunter ; born in 1965 ) - Australian rower-kayaker , played for the Australian team in the late 1980s - mid-1990s. The participant of two summer Olympic games, the world champion, the winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Australia |
| Specialization | kayak , 500 m |
| Date of Birth | October 3, 1965 (53 years) |
| Place of Birth | Albury , New South Wales |
| Growth | 179 cm |
| Weight | 76 kg |
Biography
Martin Hunter was born on October 3, 1965 in Albury , New South Wales .
He achieved his first serious success at the international level in 1988 when he joined the main team of the Australian national team and thanks to a series of successful performances he was granted the right to defend the honor of the country at the Summer Olympics in Seoul - in the standings of single kayaks at a distance of 500 meters he reached the final stage but in the decisive race he finished only seventh.
In 1989, Hunter visited the World Championships in the Bulgarian Plovdiv, from where he brought the golden dignity award, won in singles on five hundred meters. A year later, at similar competitions in Polish Poznan, he took bronze in the same discipline, losing at the finish to Soviet rower Sergei Kalesnik and American Mike Herbert . Being one of the leaders of the Australian rowing team, he successfully qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - this time in his single half-kilometer discipline he did not even reach the semi-finals stage: he finished fourth in the first and consoling races.
Despite the failure of the Olympics, Martin Hunter remained in the main part of the Australian national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1994, in conjunction with Olympic champion Clint Robinson, he performed at the world championship in Mexico City, becoming the bronze medalist in the race of twos at five hundred meters - in the finals they were bypassed by crews from Germany and Hungary. In 1988, 1990 and 1996 was a fellow at the Australian Institute of Sports [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Excellence: the Australian Institute of Sport. - Canberra: Australian Sports Commission, 2002. - ISBN 174013060X .
Links
- Martin Hunter - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Martin Hunter - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of champions and prize-winners in rowing and canoeing (1936–2007) (English)