- Olaf Søyland
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint World Championships Gold 1975 Belgrade K-4 10000 m Gold 1979 Duisburg K-2 1000 m Silver 1978 Belgrade K-2 1000 m Olaf Søyland (born 28 July 1952) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1970s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1975) and a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1978).
Søyland also finished sixth in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile
1938: Germany (Helmut Triebe & Hans Eberle) · 1950: Sweden (Lars Glasser & Ingemar Hedberg) · 1954: Hungary (István Mészáros & György Mészáros) · 1958: Belgium (Henri Verbrugghe & Germain van der Moere) · 1963: Romania (Vasilie Nicoarǎ & Haralambie Ivanov) · 1966: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko & Yuri Stetsenko) · 1970: Austria (Gerhard Seibold & Günther Pfaff) · 1971: East Germany (Reiner Kurth & Alexander Slatnow) · 1973: Hungary (József Deme & János Rátkai) · 1974: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) · 1975: East Germany (Alexander Slatnow & Gerhard Rummel) · 1977: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) · 1978: Soviet Union (Sergei Chukhray & Vladimir Trainikov) · 1979: Norway (Einar Rasmussen & Olaf Søyland) · 1981: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich & Sergey Superata) · 1982: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich & Sergey Superata) · 1983: East Germany (Frank Fischer & André Wohllebe) · 1985: France (Pascal Boucherit & Philippe Boccara) · 1986: Romania (Daniel Stoian & Angelin Velea) · 1987: New Zealand (Ian Ferguson & Paul MacDonald) · 1989: East Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1990: East Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1991: Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1993: Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1994: Denmark (Jesper Staal & Thor Nielsen) · 1995: Italy (Antonio Rossi & Daniele Scarpa) · 1997: Italy (Antonio Rossi & Luca Negri) · 1998: Italy (Antonio Rossi & Luca Negri) · 1999: Slovakia (Michal Riszdorfer & Juraj Bača) · 2001: Norway (Eirik Verås Larsen & Nils Olav Fjeldheim) · 2002: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson & Henrik Nilsson) · 2003: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson & Henrik Nilsson) · 2005: Hungary (Roland Kökény & Gábor Kucsera) · 2006: Hungary (Gábor Kucsera & Zoltán Kammerer) · 2007: France (Philippe Colin & Cyrille Carré) · 2009: Spain (Emilio Merchán & Diego Cosgaya) · 2010: Germany (Martin Hollstein & Andreas Ihle) 2011: Slovakia (Peter Gelle & Erik Vlček)
1950: Sweden (Karl Andersson, Stig Andersson, Gösta Gustavsson, & Harry Johansson) * 1954: Sweden (Einar Pihl, Ebbe Frick, Ragnar Heurlin, & Stig Andersson) * 1958: West Germany (Michel Scheuer, Georg Lietz, Gustav Schmidt, & Theodor Kleine) * 1963: Hungary (István Timár, László Fábián, Otto Koltai, & László Ürögi) * 1966: Soviet Union (Nikolai Chuzhikov, Anatoli Grishin, Volodymyr Morozov, & Vyacheslav Yonov) * 1970: Norway (Egil Søby, Steinar Amundsen, Tore Berger, & Jan Johansen) * 1971: Romania (Cuprian Macarencu, Costel Coşniţă, Vasilie Simiocenco, & Atanase Sciotnic) * 1973: Hungary (Csaba Giczi, Tibor Nagy, Csongor Vargha, & Géza Kralován) * 1974: Soviet Union (Leonid Derevyanko, Nikolai Gorbachev, Pytor Zhurga, & Anatoliy Zharikin) * 1975: Norway (Einar Rasmussen, Steinar Amundsen, Andreas Orheim, & Olaf Søyland) * 1977: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Volodymyr Morozov, Sergey Nikolskiy, & Aleksandr Avdeyev) * 1978: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Sergey Nikolskiy, Volodymyr Morozov, & Aleksandr Avdeyev) * 1979: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Sergey Nikolskiy, Volodymyr Morozov, & Aleksandr Avdeyev) * 1981: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yermilov, Nikolay Baranov, Sergey Kolokolov, & Vasiliy Silenkov) * 1982: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yermilov, Nikolay Baranov, Sergei Chukhray, & Vladimir Romanovsky) * 1983: Soviet Union (Nikolay Astapkovich, Aleksandr Avdeyev, Nikolay Baranov, & Aleksandr Yermilov) * 1985: Hungary (Zoltán Böjti, Tibor Helyi, Zoltán Kovács, & Kálmán Petrovics) * 1986: Soviet Union (Nikolay Oselez, Grigoriy Medvedyev, Sergey Kislev, & Aleksandr Akunichikov) * 1987: Norway (Harald Amundsen, Arne Sletsjøe, Morten Ivarsen, & Arne Johan Almeland) * 1989: Soviet Union (Vladimir Bobrezhov, Aleksandr Myzgin, Sergey Superata, & Arturas Veta) * 1990: Soviet Union (Dmitriy Bankovskiy, Vladimir Bobrezhov, Aleksandr Myzgin, & Arturas Veta) * 1991: Germany (Detlef Hofmann, Oliver Kegel, Thomas Reineck, & André Wohllebe) * 1993: Germany (Thomas Reineck, Oliver Kegel, André Wohllebe, & Mario Von Appen)Categories:- 1952 births
- Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Norwegian canoeists
- Olympic canoeists of Norway
- People from Flekkefjord
- European canoeist stubs
- Norwegian sportspeople stubs
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