Mattis Næss (born 18 May 1973) is a
Norwegian sprint canoer
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.
Overview
Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...
who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade).
Biography
He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the
2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia, in August 2005.
Men race as individuals, pairs and quads over 200m, 500m and 1000m in both Canoe (Canadian) (C) and Kayak (K) events, giving a total of 18 gold medals. W ...
in
Zagreb
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.
Næss also competed in two
Summer Olympics
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, earning his best finish of fifth in the
K-4 1000 m event at
Athens
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in
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
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As of 2011, Mattis Næss is a teacher in science and mathematics. He teaches the subjects R1, T, science and P.
References
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Sports-reference.com profile
1973 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bærum
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Norwegian male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Norway
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Norwegian schoolteachers
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