Marcus Walz
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Marcus Walz (lane 5)
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Full name | Marcus Cooper Walz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | English Spanish |
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Born | Oxford, England |
3 October 1994 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Sprint kayak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Reial Club Nàutic Portopetro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marcus Cooper Walz (born 3 October 1994) is an English-born Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed internationally since the early 2010s. He won the gold medal in the K-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[1] He won the silver medal in the Men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade.
Born in Oxford to an American father and a English/German mother, the family established in Mallorca when Walz was 3 months old.[2]
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- English emigrants to Spain
- Spanish male canoeists
- Spanish people of German descent
- Spanish people of English descent
- Olympic canoeists for Spain
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain
- Olympic silver medalists for Spain
- Sportspeople from Mallorca
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Oxford
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
- Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Canoeists at the 2019 European Games
- Canoeists at the 2023 European Games
- European Games gold medalists for Spain
- European Games medalists in canoeing