Slavomír Kňazovický (born 3 May 1967 in Piešťany) is a Czechoslovak-Slovak sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the C-1 500 m event at Atlanta in 1996.
Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
Olympic Games | ||
![]() | 1996 Atlanta | C-1 500 m |
World Championships | ||
![]() | 1998 Szeged | C-1 200 m |
![]() | 1994 Mexico City | C-4 500 m |
![]() | 1999 Milan | C-1 200 m |
European Championships | ||
![]() | 1997 Plovdiv | C-1 200 m |
![]() | 1999 Zagreb | C-1 200 m |
An out-and-out sprinter, his preferred distance was in fact the 200 m (not included on the Olympic schedule). In 1997 he became European C-1 200 m champion in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The following year he won the silver medal in Szeged, Hungary. In 1999 he was a bronze medallist at both the World and European Championships. Kňazovický also earned a bronze in the C-4 500 m event at the 1994 World championships in Mexico City.
Kňazovický is now the coach of the current Slovakian number one Marián Ostrčil.
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