František Čapek
- January 31, 2008
- 93 years
- heart ailment
About František Čapek
František Čapek, 93, Czech canoeist, Olympic C1 10,000m gold medallist in 1948, heart ailment.
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|František Čapek (24 October 1914 – 31 January 2008) was a Czech sprint canoeist who competed for Czechoslovakia from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Born in Branice, he also won a silver medal at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon in the C-1 10000 m event.
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