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Gunar Kirchbach
Gunar Kirchbach, German flatwater canoeist (born 1971, Bad Saarow), KC Potsdam; 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold in C2 1,000 m with Andreas Dittmer (3:31.870), two world titles, later coach at SC DHfK Leipzig.
Gunnar Akerlund
Gunnar Åkerlund (Ernst Gunnar Åkerlund), Swedish sprint canoeist, Nyköpings KK; with Hans Wetterström won K2 10,000 m gold at London 1948 and silver at Helsinki 1952, plus world championship titles.
Gunnar Utterberg
Gunnar Utterberg (Nils Gunnar Utterberg, 1942–2021), Swedish sprint canoeist with Jönköpings KK; Olympic gold in K2 1,000 m at Tokyo 1964 with Sven-Olov Sjödelius in 3:38.54; competed at three Games 1964–1972.
Gunter Perleberg
Günter Perleberg (1935–2019) was a German canoe sprint paddler who won Olympic gold in the kayak relay at Rome 1960 and silver at Tokyo 1964.
Gyorgy Kolonics
Gyorgy Kolonics (Kolonics György, 1972–2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two Olympic gold medals and a record fifteen world championship titles, dying of heart failure a month before the Beijing Olympics.
Hans Berglund
Hans Berglund (Hans Gustaf Bo Berglund, 1918–2006), Swedish sprint kayaker; won K2 1,000 m gold with Lennart Klingström at London 1948, 1938 world K2 silver, K4 world gold, father of Bo Berglund.
Harald Marg
Harald Marg (born 1954, Magdeburg) is an East German flatwater canoeist, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in the men's K4 1,000 m (3:13.76) with Helm, Olbricht, and Duvigneau, and winner of 13 World Championship medals, 1973–1983.
Heike Singer
Heike Singer (Heike Klein), born 1964 in Rodewisch, East German sprint canoeist; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in K-4 500 m with Schmidt, Nothnagel, Portwich; three world titles 1985 and 1989.
Henrik Nilsson
Henrik Nilsson (Hans Henrik Nilsson, born 1976, Nyköping) is a Swedish sprint kayaker; with Markus Oscarsson he won K-2 1000 m Olympic gold at Athens 2004 and silver at Sydney 2000, plus world titles in 2002 and 2003.
Hugh Fisher
Hugh Fisher (born 1955, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a Canadian sprint kayaker and emergency physician; with Alwyn Morris he won K-2 1000m gold in world record 3:24.22 and K-2 500m bronze at Los Angeles 1984.
Ian Ferguson
Ian Ferguson (born 1952, Taumarunui), New Zealand sprint canoeist; four Olympic golds and one silver across five Games, including three golds at Los Angeles 1984; K2 partner Paul MacDonald.
Imre Pulai
Imre Pulai (Pulai Imre), Hungarian sprint canoeist born 1967 in Budapest; Olympic gold C-2 500 m Sydney 2000 with Ferenc Novák, bronze C-1 500 m Atlanta 1996, four world titles, later luge athlete and bobsled-luge federation president.
Ingo Spelly
Ingo Spelly, German canoe sprint paddler born 1966 in Lübben, Olympic C2 doubles specialist: Seoul 1988 silver with Heukrodt for East Germany, Barcelona 1992 gold (C2 1000 m) and silver with Ulrich Papke, plus seven world championship medals.
Isaquias Queiroz
Isaquias Queiroz (Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos), Brazilian sprint canoeist born 1994 in Ubaitaba, Bahia; five Olympic medals including C1 1000m gold at Tokyo 2020, first Brazilian with three medals at one Games, eight world titles.
Istvan Vaskuti
István Vaskuti (born 1955, Debrecen) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist, 1980 Moscow Olympic champion in C2 500 m with László Foltán, nine-time world champion, and ICF Vice President 2008–2016.
Ivan Patzaichin
Ivan Patzaichin (1949–2021), Romanian sprint canoeist from Mila 23 in the Danube Delta; four Olympic golds and three silvers over five Games (1968–1984), 22 World Championship medals, later national coach and Danube Delta ecotourism founder.
Ivans Klementjevs
Ivans Klementjevs (Ivan Ilyich Klementyev), born 1960, Latvian sprint canoeist; Olympic C1 1000 m champion 1988 for USSR, silver 1992 and 1996 for Latvia; seven-time world champion; later Saeima deputy.
Jacob Clear
Jacob Peter Clear (born 1985, Sydney) is an Australian sprint canoeist, OAM, who won K4 1000 m gold at London 2012 with Smith, Smith, and Stewart, and raced at Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016.
Jacob Schopf
Jacob Schopf is a German canoe sprint kayaker, born 1999 in Berlin, who won silver at Tokyo 2020 and two golds at Paris 2024, plus four world titles.
Jan Brzak Felix
Jan Brzák-Felix (1912–1988), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist nicknamed Felix, won Olympic C2 1000 m gold at Berlin 1936 with Syrovátka and London 1948 with Kudrna, plus Helsinki 1952 silver and three flatwater world titles.
Jan Johansen
Jan Johansen (born 1944, Tønsberg) is a Norwegian sprint kayaker, Olympic K4 1000 m champion at Mexico City 1968 and bronze medalist at Munich 1972 with the "Gullfireren" crew, also a 1970 world champion.
Jan Vandrey
Jan Vandrey (born 1991, Schwedt/Oder) is a German sprint canoeist of KC Potsdam who won Olympic gold in the men's C2 1,000 m at Rio 2016 with Sebastian Brendel, plus 2017 world C4 gold.
Janos Parti
János Parti (Parti János), Hungarian sprint canoeist (1932–1999), Olympic C1 1000 m champion at Rome 1960 after silvers in 1952 and 1956; 1954 world champion; later national captain of Hungary's kayak-canoe team.
Janos Uranyi
Janos Uranyi (Urányi János, 1924–1964), Hungarian sprint kayaker; with Laszlo Fabian won K-2 10,000 m gold at Melbourne 1956, Hungary's first kayaking Olympic gold and the event's last Olympic edition.
Jean van der Westhuyzen
Jean van der Westhuyzen, South African-born Australian canoe sprint paddler (born 1998, Cape Town). Tokyo 2020 K2 1000m Olympic gold with Tom Green, Paris 2024 K2 500m bronze; brother of Pierre van der Westhuyzen.
Jessica Fox (canoeist)
Jessica Esther "Jess" Fox, born 1994 in Marseille, is an Australian canoe slalom paddler with six Olympic medals (3 gold), ten world titles, and the record as Australia's most successful individual Olympic medallist.
Ji Bowen
Ji Bowen (季博文, born 2002 in Zhejiang, China) is a Chinese sprint canoeist who won the C-2 500 meters gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Liu Hao.
Jiri Prskavec
Jiří Prskavec (born 1993, Mělník) is a Czech canoe slalom K1 paddler, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and Rio 2016 bronze medallist, multiple world and European champion, coached by his father Jiří Prskavec sr.
Joachim Mattern
Joachim Mattern (born 1948, Beeskow) is an East German flatwater canoeist, SC Berlin-Grünau, who won K-2 500 m gold and K-2 1,000 m silver with Bernd Olbricht at Montreal 1976, plus five world medals, and later coached German kayakers until 2005.
Joe Jacobi
Joe Jacobi (born 1969, Washington, D.C.) is an American slalom canoeist who with Scott Strausbaugh won the 1992 Barcelona Olympic C2 gold, the only US whitewater slalom gold, later CEO of USA Canoe/Kayak.