Christian Bahmann (born 22 July 1981 in

Plauen Plauen (; ; ) is a town in Saxony, Germany with a population of around 65,000. It is Saxony's 5th most populated city after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest cit ...

) is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2008. He won a gold in the C2 event at the

2005 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships The 2005 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 29th edition. This marked the first time the events too ...

in Penrith. He also won a silver and a bronze at the

European Championships A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

. Bahmann finished fourth in the C2 event at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

together with former Olympic bronze medalist

Michael Senft Michael Senft (born 28 September 1972 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C2 event in 1996 in Atlanta. Senft ...

. Christian Bahmann is the son of

Angelika Bahmann Angelika Bahmann (born 1 April 1952 in Plauen) is a former East Germany, East German slalom canoeing, slalom canoeist and trainer who competed in the 1970s. She won a gold medal in the Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's slalom K-1 ...

, winner of the women's K1 event at the

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World Cup individual podiums

¹ World Championship counting for World Cup points

References

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ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 profile
1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Plauen Sportspeople from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt German male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Germany Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-canoe-bio-stub