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CANOE SLALOM

Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1 Obstacle
2014	Nanjing, CHN	2

World Championships

Year	Location	K1	K1 Team
2019	La Seu d'Urgell, ESP	10	24
2018	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	17	15
2017	Pau, FRA	16	8
2015	London, GBR	41	2
2013	Prague, CZE	50	17

Oceania Open Championships

Year	Location	K1
2019	Penrith, NSW, AUS	2

European Championships

Year	Location	K1	K1 Team
2021	Ivrea, ITA	34	5
2019	Pau, FRA	33	12
2018	Prague, CZE	28	7
2017	Tacen, SLO	8	12

World Cup - Overview per season since 2017

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2021	Kayak	-	1 x 1st, 1 x 6th
2019	Kayak	17th	1 x 9th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 28th
2018	Kayak	14th	1 x 14th, 2 x 15th, 1 x 21st
2017	Kayak	8th	1 x 5th, 2 x 10th, 1 x 22nd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2021	Kayak	Markkleeberg, GER
5	2017	Kayak	Ivrea, ITA
6	2021	Kayak	Prague, CZE
9	2019	Kayak	Tacen, SLO
10	2017	Kayak	Augsburg, GER
10	2017	Kayak	Prague, CZE
13	2019	Kayak	Prague, CZE
14	2018	Kayak	Liptovsky Mikulas, SVK
15	2018	Kayak	La Seu d'Urgell, ESP
15	2018	Kayak	Augsburg, GER

World Junior & U23 Championships (Under 23)

Year	Location	K1	K1 Team
2018	Ivrea, ITA	7	21
2017	Bratislava, SVK	1	8

Legend
IP - In Progress, C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

CANOE SPRINT

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1 Head to Head
2014	Nanjing, CHN	17

Legend
C - Canoe, K - Kayak, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Kubo (Facebook profile, 26 Apr 2018)

Learning Russian language, cooking, playing the guitar and violin, skating, rock climbing. (redbull.com, 24 Nov 2020; sport.aktuality.sk, 26 Mar 2020; olympic.sk, 22 Nov 2019, 06 Aug 2019)

Athlete

English, Slovak

Stanislav Gejdos [personal], from 2019

He competed in canoe sprint at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 Feb 2020)

2012 for Slovakia (canoeicf.com, 29 Aug 2015)

In 2014 he underwent knee surgery. (sport.pravda.sk, 09 Oct 2014)

He took up the sport at age nine at the Kanoe Tatra Klub in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia. (canoeicf.com, 29 Aug 2015; sport.pravda.sk, 09 Oct 2014)

"I did not really want to be a kayaker. My father wanted me to try it so we made a deal and I tried it for a few weeks. That was the moment when I fell in love with this sport." (canoeicf.com, 29 Aug 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympic.sk, 06 Aug 2019)

Czech slalom paddler Vavrinec Hradilek. (canoeicf.com, 29 Aug 2015)

Slovakian slalom paddler Elena Kaliska. (sport.pravda.sk, 09 Oct 2014)

"Life is too short to waste it with negative vibes." (canoeicf.com, 29 Aug 2015)

He was named Male Slalom Kayaker of the Year for 2019 by Slovak Canoeing. (canoe-europe.org, 27 Jan 2020)

He received the Male Kayaker of the Year award for both 2016 and 2018 from Slovak Canoeing. (canoe-europe.org, 06 Dec 2018, 27 Feb 2017)

He was named the 2016 Young Sportsman of the Year by Slovakia's Army Sports Centre. (canoe-europe.org, 27 Feb 2017)

The International Canoe Federation [ICF] named him the Most Promising Paddler of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (canoeicf.com, 12 Aug 2016)