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Paul Lange (canoeist)

German canoe racer (1931–2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ2060817 ↗
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Paul Lange (6 February 1931 – 15 March 2016) was a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 × 500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome (with Dieter Krause, Günther Perleberg and Friedhelm Wentzke). Lange also won two medals at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague with a gold in the K-1 4 × 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. He was born in Oberhausen.

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