Jakub Jáně (born 13 September 1990) is a Czech
slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2006.
He won three medals at the
ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
The ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non-Summer Olympic years since 2002. From 1949 to 1999, they h ...
with two golds (Mixed C2:
2019
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, C2 team:
2013
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) and a bronze (C2 team:
2014
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). He also won three silver and four bronze medals at the
European Canoe Slalom Championships
The European Canoe Slalom Championships is an annual international canoeing and kayaking event organized by the European Canoe Association (ECA) since 1996. Until 2004 it was held every two years.
Summary
Medal table
As of the 2022 European ...
.
His partner in the men's C2 was
Ondřej Karlovský.
Jáně won the overall
World Cup
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title in mixed C2 in
2018
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together with
Tereza Fišerová. It was the first year when mixed C2 was included in the World Cup.
His older brother
Michal
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is also a slalom canoeist.
World Cup individual podiums
References
External links
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1990 births
Czech male canoeists
Living people
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Sportspeople from Hradec Králové
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