Sebastian Piersig (born 28 May 1984 in

Spremberg Spremberg ( dsb, Grodk) is a municipality near the Saxon city of Hoyerswerda and is in the Spree-Neiße district of Brandenburg, Germany. First mentioned in 1301, the town alone has 14,028 inhabitants, and the municipality, including other vill ...

) is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2000 to 2009 in the C2 class together with Felix Michel. He won a silver medal in the C2 team event at the

2006 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships The 2006 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Prague, Czech Republic between 2-6 August 2006 under the auspices of International Canoe Federation at the Prague-Troja Canoeing Centre. It was the 30th edition. Prague became the second cit ...

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. He also won two gold medals in the same event 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, ...

. Piersig finished sixth in the C2 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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World Cup individual podiums

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1984 births Living people People from Spremberg People from Bezirk Cottbus German male canoeists Sportspeople from Brandenburg Olympic canoeists of Germany Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships {{Germany-canoe-bio-stub