Juraj Bača
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Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
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Olympic Games | ||
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2004 Athens | K-4 1000 m |
World Championships | ||
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1998 Szeged | K-2 500 m |
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1999 Milan | K-2 1000 m |
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2002 Seville | K-4 500 m |
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2002 Seville | K-4 1000 m |
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2003 Gainesville | K-4 500 m |
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2003 Gainesville | K-4 1000 m |
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2001 Poznań | K-4 500 m |
Juraj Bača (born 17 March 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoeist who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.[1]
Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).
After retiring from competition, Bača now works as a kayak coach. In autumn 2006 he appeared on the celebrity TV dance competition Let's Dance.
Bača was a member of the ŠKP Bratislava club. He is 186 cm (6'1") tall and raced at 86 kg (189 lbs).
References[edit]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Juraj Bača". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). "Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–83. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
External links[edit]
- Juraj Bača at Olympedia
- Juraj Bača at Olympics.com
- Juraj Bača at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
Categories:
- 1977 births
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists for Slovakia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Slovakia
- Slovak male canoeists
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Komárno
- Slovak canoeist stubs
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- European Olympic medalist stubs