Christian Bahmann (born 22 July 1981 in

Plauen Plauen (; Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest city in the Sa ...

) 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 to ...

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

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

. Bahmann finished fourth in the C2 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics 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, winner of the women's K1 event at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972 ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

World Cup individual podiums

¹ World Championship counting for World Cup points

References

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 {{Germany-canoe-bio-stub