Robert Erban ( Slovak: Róbert Erban ; July 9, 1972 , Piestany ) is a Slovak kayaker , played for the national teams of Czechoslovakia and Slovakia in the early 1990s - mid-2000s. Participant of the four summer Olympic Games, world champion, three-time European champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Slovakia |
| Specialization | kayak , 500 m |
| Club | Bratislava |
| Date of Birth | July 9, 1972 (aged 47) |
| Place of Birth | Piestany , Czechoslovakia |
| Growth | 190 cm |
| Weight | 85 kg |
Biography
Robert Erban was born on July 9, 1972 in the city of Piestany, Trnava Region . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, was trained in Bratislava in the capital's sports club of the same name "Bratislava".
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1991, when he joined the main team of the Czechoslovak national team and attended the World Championships in Paris, from where he brought the bronze dignity, won in tandem with Jura Kadnar in the classification of double kayaks at a distance of 10,000 meters. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona - he was able to reach the semi-finals alone, thousands of meters away and Kadnar at five hundred meters, while the four in the kilometer race showed the fourth result, not reaching the prize positions a bit.
After the collapse of Czechoslovakia, Erban joined the Slovak national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, being one of the leaders of the rowing team of Slovakia, he successfully qualified for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta - however, he did not achieve significant success, he finished eighth in solo five hundred meters, while he finished eighth, while in thousand meters stopped in the semifinals. In 2000, he won a silver medal at the European Championships in Poznan, Poland, and went to represent the country at the Sydney Olympics , where he reached the semi-finals alone at a distance of 500 meters and took fourth place in four at a distance of 1000 meters.
In 2002, Erban received silver at the European Championship in Szeged, Hungary, in the program of double kayaks at a kilometer distance. Later, the selection for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens took place - he started alone on the kilometer, but managed to reach only the semifinals.
Returning from the Athens Olympics, despite his considerable age, Robert Erban remained in the main team of the Slovak national team and continued to participate in prestigious world regattas. In 2005, he received silver and gold medals at the European Championships in Poznan, four in five and a hundred meters respectively, and then added to his track record two silver medals from the World Cup in Croatian Zagreb. The following season, in the same disciplines, he won the European championship in Czech Rachitsa and won the four-kilometer four-man race at the world championship in Szeged. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end the career of a professional athlete, giving way to young Slovak rowers in the national team.
Links
- Robert Erban - Olympic Statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Robert Erban - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )