Tibor Linka (Hungarian: Linka Tibor, born 13 February 1995) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competes in the four-man (K-4) events. He won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. Earlier in 2014 he was named Athlete of the Year in his native town of Šamorín.[3] He is of Hungarian ethnicity.[4]
Career
At the 2013 European Junior and U23 Championships he won a gold medal in K-2 500 metres junior race with Denis Myšák.[5] Next year, again with Myšák, they finished second in the U23 race.[6] In 2015 he became part of Slovak K-4 team, which had won many medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. With Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Denis Myšák, they won K-4 1000 metres race at the 2015 World Championships.[7] In 2016, the same team won one gold [8] and one silver medal [9] at the 2016 European Championships, showing good form before the main objective of the season, the Olympic Games, where they competed in the K-4 1000 m category as the reigning World Champions and managed to win the silver medal.
^"Results K4 Men 1000m"(PDF). europecanoeevents.com. European Canoe Association. 26 June 2016. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
^"Results K4 Men 500m"(PDF). europecanoeevents.com. European Canoe Association. 25 June 2016. Archived from the original(PDF) on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
