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Tomasz Wylenzek (born 9 January 1983 in Świerklaniec , Poland ) is a German Flatwater Canoer who already has three major championship titles to his name. Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at Curitiba , Brazil. The following year, still only 19, he was promoted to the German senior squad as C-2 partner for the more experienced Christian Gille . At the 2002 World Championships in Seville , they finished 7th in the 500m final. At Wylenzek's first Olympics, Athens 2004 , he and Gille won a shock gold in the C-2 1000m . In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event, showing that their Athens victory had been no one-off. A clean sweep of medals (200m, 500m and 1000m) at the European Championships in Poznan , Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500m and 1000m) at the 2005 Flatwater Racing World Championships in Zagreb . Wylenzek lives in Essen . He is 183 cm tall (6 ft O) and weighs 85 kg (187 lbs). |
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