Wolfgang Lange (canoeist)

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Wolfgang Lange

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
	1963 Jajce	K-4 1000 m
	1963 Jajce	K-2 1000 m
	1963 Jajce	K-1 4 x 500 m
	1966 East Berlin	K-4 10000 m

Wolfgang Lange (3 July 1938 – 29 October 2022)^[1] was an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1960s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1963) a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1963), and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-4 10000 m: 1966).

Lange also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-1 1000 m event at Rome in 1960.

References

1. Trauer um Wolfgang Lange (in German)

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)

External links

• Wolfgang Lange at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)