Bohumil Kudrna

Bohumil Kudrna (15 March 1920 – 11 February 1991) was a Czechoslovak flatwater and slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with Jan Brzák-Felix in the C-2 1000 m event with a gold in 1948 and a silver in 1952.

Bohumil Kudrna
Medal record
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1948 LondonC-2 1000 m
Silver medal – second place1952 HelsinkiC-2 1000 m
Canoe Sprint World Championships
Gold medal – first place1950 CopenhagenC-2 1000 m
Gold medal – first place1950 CopenhagenC-2 10000 m
Men's canoe slalom
Canoe Slalom World Championships
Silver medal – second place1949 GenevaC-2 team
Bronze medal – third place1949 GenevaC-2

Kudrna won two gold medals at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen, earning them in the C-2 1000 m and C-2 10000 m events.

He also won two medals at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva with a silver in the C-2 team event and a bronze in the C-2 event.

References
  • DatabaseOlympics.com profile
  • 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. "Bohumil Kudrna". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.


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