WALZ Marcus

Date of Birth: 3 Oct 1994

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.85/6'0''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Canoe Sprint	Men's Kayak Four 500m ESP Spain	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Sea Forest Waterway	Men's Kayak Four 500m Heat 2 #103	Finished
	Sea Forest Waterway	Men's Kayak Four 500m Semi-final 2 #118	Finished
	Sea Forest Waterway	Men's Kayak Four 500m Final A #125	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	K1 1000m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1

World Championships

Year	Location	K1 500m	K2 500m	K4 500m
2019	Szeged, HUN	-	-	2
2018	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	-	-	2
2017	Racice, CZE	-	1	2
2015	Milan, ITA	-	2	-
2014	Moscow, RUS	3	-	-

European Games

Year	Location	K4 500m
2019	Minsk, BLR	9

European Championships

Year	Location	K1 1000m	K2 500m	K4 500m	K4 1000m
2018	Belgrade, SRB	-	2	1	-
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	9	-	-	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	K1 1000m	K4 500m
2021	-	1 x 1st
2019	-	1 x 5th
2018	-	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
2017	2 x 9th	2 x 2nd, 1 x 5th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2021	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	1:22.15
1	2018	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	1:18.002
2	2018	Kayak Four 500m	World Championships	Montemor-o-Velho, POR	1:20.423
2	2017	Kayak Four 500m	World Championships	Racice, CZE	1:18.371
2	2017	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	1:19.340
5	2019	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Duisburg, GER	1:19.903
5	2017	Kayak Four 500m	World Cup	Belgrade, SRB	1:21.784
9	2017	Kayak Single 1000m	World Cup	Belgrade, SRB	3:38.596
9	2017	Kayak Single 1000m	World Cup	Szeged, HUN	3:36.128

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

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Business Administration, Finance - Catholic University of Murcia [UCAM], Spain

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

RCN Porto Petro [Manacor, ESP]

Miguel Garcia [national], ESP

He took up canoe sprint at age 12 when he took a summer course offered by the RCN Porto Petro club in Majorca, Spain. (larazon.es, 28 Sep 2015)

"I saw other boys training and I signed up. I started liking it and getting good results in the competitions, so here I am." (larazon.es, 28 Sep 2015)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cadenaser.com, 12 Sep 2019)

Winning gold in the K1 1000m event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (elespanol.com, 29 Apr 2019)

German sprint paddler Tom Liebscher. (webpiraguismo.blogspot.com, 16 Feb 2016)

Philosophy:

"Training is 24 hours a day, and every decision we make throughout the day will bring us closer or further away from our goal and will give us more or less advantage over our rivals." (unycos.com, 18 Jun 2019)

In 2016 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit by the Ministry of Sport. (boe.es, 11 Nov 2016)

He was named the 2016 Male Canoeist of the Year by the Royal Spanish Canoe Federation [RFEP]. He shared the award with fellow canoe sprint athletes Cristian Toro and Saul Craviotto. (canoe-europe.org, 03 Mar 2017)

General Interest

General
OTHER ACTIVITIES
He is a partner in a company that provides bike rental, guided tours and sporting activities in the Balearic Islands in Spain. He also teaches online courses on canoeing. (Instagram profile, 10 Feb 2020; Bicillevant Facebook page, 04 Jul 2019; unycos.com, 18 Jun 2019)

FAMILY BACKGROUND
He was born in England to an English father and a German mother, and grew up in Majorca, Spain. (larazon.es, 28 Sep 2015)

Social Media

Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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