LANGERFELD Kai

Olympic Games

Year	Location	4-
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6

World Championships

Year	Location	2-	4-	8+
2019	Linz, AUT	8	-	-
2018	Plovdiv, BUL	-	-	8
2017	Sarasota, FL, USA	-	8	-
2015	Aiguebelette-le-Lac, FRA	-	4	-
2014	Amsterdam, NED	-	5	-

World Championships Non-Olympic Events

Year	Location	2+
2012	Plovdiv, BUL	3

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Pair	2019	Poznan, POL	6:43.34
6	Eight	2018	Lucerne, SUI	5:38.39
11	Pair	2017	Lucerne, SUI	6:58.35
18	Four	2018	Belgrade, SRB	6:09.61

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Kaiser per (olympic.ca, 01 Jul 2015)

Social and Behavioral Science - University of Victoria , Canada

English

University of Victoria Rowing Club [Canada]

Dick Tonks [national], NZL; Jeremy Ivey [national], USA

His father, York Langerfeld, represented Canada as a rower at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. (timescolonist.com, 08 Nov 2014)

His father competed in rowing at the Olympic Games and first introduced him to the sport at age 13. But he preferred ice hockey growing up, and it wasn't until he began studying at the University of Victoria in 2009 that he decided to try rowing again. (timescolonist.com, 08 Nov 2014; olympic.ca, 01 Jul 2015)

He dreamt of playing professional ice hockey as a boy, but by the time he left high school he realised he wasn't good enough. He was still keen to pursue a sport, and started taking interest in his father's Olympic rowing career, which inspired him to join the University of Victoria's novice rowing programme. (timescolonist.com, 08 Nov 2014; rowingcanada.org, 01 Apr 2014)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (canadianathletesnow.ca, 01 Sep 2019; timescolonist.com, 31 Aug 2019)

He trains four to six hours a day, six days a week. "We wake up around six o'clock in the morning, I have what we call our pre-breakfast, and then we'll have one row about 07.30, which will probably last an hour and a half to two hours. And then we have second breakfast, which is usually the bigger breakfast, and then we'll probably do some dry-land training or some weights. And then in the afternoon, we'll do what we call the erg machine. We'll do about an hour to two hours on those, and then we go home and then just eat as much as possible." (canadianathletesnow.ca, 01 Sep 2019; row2k.com, 22 Jan 2016)

Representing Canada for the first time. (athleteilluminati.com, 01 Dec 2011)

US basketball player Kobe Bryant. (canadianathletesnow.ca, 01 Sep 2019)

"Anything worth doing takes a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifices. Usually people see this line to success as just one straight line, but it's a lot of ups and a lot of downs. There's gonna be a lot of hard days, a lot of stress, a lot of highs, a lot of lows. But it takes a lot of hard work, a lot of perseverance. I think, ultimately, if you love what you're doing, you don't really call it a sacrifice, because you're working towards something you really enjoy." (row2k.com, 22 Jan 2016)