Karen Hoff
Danish canoeist
Karen Hoff at the 1948 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 29 May 1921 Vorup, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 February 2000 (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoe racing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Kano- og Kajakklubben Gudenaa, Randers | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karen Hoff (29 May 1921 – 29 February 2000) was a Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She became the first female Olympic champion in the sport of canoeing when she won the gold medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Karen also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold in K-2 500 m in 1948 and a silver in K-1 500 m in 1950.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karen Hoff.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Karen Hoff". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
External links
- Karen Hoff at Olympedia
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Olympic kayaking champions in women's K-1 500 m
- 1948: Karen Hoff (DEN)
- 1952: Sylvi Saimo (FIN)
- 1956: Yelizaveta Dementyeva (URS)
- 1960: Antonina Seredina (URS)
- 1964: Lyudmila Khvedosyuk (URS)
- 1968: Lyudmila Pinayeva (URS)
- 1972: Yulia Ryabchinskaya (URS)
- 1976: Carola Zirzow (GDR)
- 1980: Birgit Fischer (GDR)
- 1984: Agneta Andersson (SWE)
- 1988: Vanja Gesheva (BUL)
- 1992: Birgit Fischer (GER)
- 1996: Rita Kőbán (HUN)
- 2000: Josefa Idem (ITA)
- 2004: Nataša Janić (HUN)
- 2008: Inna Osypenko (UKR)
- 2012: Danuta Kozák (HUN)
- 2016: Danuta Kozák (HUN)
- 2020: Lisa Carrington (NZL)
- 2024: Lisa Carrington (NZL)
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