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Kiteboarding Club Tarifa
Kiteboarding Club Tarifa (KBC Tarifa) is an IKO-licensed kitesurf, surf, and SUP school in Tarifa, Spain, run by Franky and Anabel, based at Playa de Los Lances, using radio-helmet coaching and F-ONE gear.
Kitespot Farø
Kitespot Farø (Farø, Denmark): kitesurf and wingfoil spot on the Bogø causeway in the Storstrømmen strait between Zealand and Falster; shallow flat water, Venturi wind, beginner friendly, bird-protection limits June-August.
Kitesurf & Kanu Born
Kitesurf & Kanu Born (KITEN-LERNEN.DE, Surfschuppen Born) is a VDWS water sports center at Regenbogen-Camp on the Saaler Bodden, Born a. Darß, Germany, teaching kitesurfing, windsurfing, wingfoiling, and SUP since the late 1990s.
Kitesurf Center
Kitesurf Center is a sports venue at Cabo de la Vela, Uribia, La Guajira, Colombia (OSM node 4103106460, leisure=sports_centre, sport=surfing), near Cabo Kite Center and Playa de El Cabo.
Kizakihama Surf Point
Kizakihama (木崎浜, Kisakihama) is a 2–3 km sand-bottom beach break in Miyazaki City, Japan, host of the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games and 2017 World Juniors, with the Solaseed Air Surfing Center.
Klara Killermann Bartos
Klára Killermann-Bartos (Killermann Klára, Bartos Győzőné, 1929–2012), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer; three-time Olympian (1952–1960), 1954 European 200 m breaststroke bronze medalist, and holder of three 4×100 m medley relay world records.
Klaus Bittner
Klaus Bittner (born 23 October 1938, Görlitz) is a German rower of the Ratzeburg-Kiel "Goldachter" who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at Rome 1960, the first non-US eights gold since 1900, and silver at Tokyo 1964.
Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver (born 1947, Hall in Tirol, Austria), won 10m platform gold at 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympics after 1964 silver; only diver with three successive Olympic titles in one event.
Klaus Dieter Ludwig
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig, nicknamed Lucky, East German rowing coxswain (1943-2016); Olympic silver in coxed fours at Munich 1972, gold in the eights at Moscow 1980, and seven World Championship medals.
Klaus Dieter Neubert
Klaus-Dieter Neubert (born 1949, Oberwiesenthal) is an East German rowing coxswain, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed pair at Munich 1972 with Gunkel and Lucke, fourth at Mexico 1968, later a GDR foreign-trade official.
Klaus Katzur
Klaus Katzur (1943–2016), East German breaststroke swimmer from Potsdam; silver in the 4×100 m medley relay at Munich 1972, double European champion 1970, later chaired the Association of German Olympians.
Klaus Kroppelien
Klaus Kröppelien (born 1958, Rostock) is a German rower, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in the men's double sculls with Joachim Dreifke, also world champion 1979 (quadruple sculls) and 1981 (double sculls).
Klaus Riekemann
Klaus Riekemann (born 19 May 1940, Dorsten) is a German rower, Olympic gold medallist in the coxed fours at Rome 1960 for the Unified Team of Germany, twice European coxed pair champion (1958, 1959), later a masters rower with Minerva Bath Rowing Club.
Klaus Steinbach
Klaus Steinbach, born 1953, West German freestyle swimmer, 1972 Olympic silver and 1976 bronze in relays, 1975 world champion, first under 50 s for 100 m freestyle short course, later NOK president 2002-2006 and orthopedic surgeon.
Klenie Bimolt
Klenie Bimolt (Klena Geertje Bimolt, born 1945) is a Dutch breaststroke swimmer, 1964 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay and 1962 European silver medalist, who also competed at Mexico 1968.
Klete Keller
Klete Keller, also Klete Derik Keller, American freestyle swimmer born 1982 in Las Vegas; two Olympic relay golds (2004, 2008) among five medals, later convicted for the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and pardoned by Trump in 2025.
Kliment Kolesnikov
Kliment Kolesnikov (Климент Колесников), Russian backstroke swimmer born 2000 in Moscow; world record holder 50 m backstroke 23.55, six-time 2018 Youth Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 silver and bronze, 2025 world champion as a neutral athlete.
Knut Holmann
Knut Holmann, born in 1968 in Oslo, is a Norwegian sprint kayaker who won six Olympic medals, including three golds in the K1 1000 meters, and successfully defended his Olympic title from 1996 to 2000.
Koen Metsemakers
Koen Metsemakers (born 1992, Hasselt, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch rower, stroke of the men's quadruple sculls; two-time Olympic champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), 2019 European and world champion, retired June 2025 for a surgical career.
Kook Proof
Kook Proof is a kitesurfing school in Esposende, Portugal, founded in 2004 by IKO Examiner Tiago Rocha, teaching the three-pillar Kook Proof Method (decision-making, technique, feedback loops) with private lessons, radio coaching, and rescue boat support.
Koos Maasdijk
Koos Maasdijk (Jacob Arnold Maasdijk, born 1968, Rotterdam) is a Dutch rower of club Skadi who won gold in the men's eight at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and finished fifth in the quadruple sculls at Barcelona 1992.
Kornelia Ender
Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer (born 1958, Plauen), won 8 Olympic medals including 4 golds at Montreal 1976, all in world-record time, and set 23 individual world records; later admitted state doping.
Kornelia Gressler
Kornelia Gressler (Greßler), born 1970, East German butterfly swimmer; 1986 World champion 100m butterfly (59.51) and medley relay gold, 1985 European 100m butterfly champion; not Kornelia Ender.
Kosuke Hagino
Kosuke Hagino (萩野 公介) is a retired Japanese swimmer who won four Olympic medals, including 2016 400 m individual medley gold in an Asian record 4:06.05.
Kosuke Kitajima
Kosuke Kitajima (北島 康介) is a Japanese former breaststroke swimmer who won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, a consecutive-Games sweep no one else has matched.
Kristen Babb Sprague
Kristen Babb Sprague (Kristen Elizabeth Babb-Sprague, born 1968), American synchronized swimmer who won 1992 Olympic solo gold, later shared with Sylvie Fréchette after a judging error; 13 US titles.
Kristen Kit
Kristen Kit is a Canadian rowing coxswain, born in 1988, who won gold in the women's eight at Tokyo 2020 and silver at Paris 2024.
Kristen Thorsness
Kristen (Kris) Thorsness, born 1960 in Anchorage, Alaska, is an American rower and lawyer who won gold in the women's eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the first U.S. women's crew to win Olympic gold, and later became a Title IX attorney and CAS arbitrator.
Kristin Otto
Kristin Otto is a German former swimmer who won six gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a record for a woman at a single Games.
Kristin Topham
Kristin Louise Topham, Canadian swimmer born 1973 in Edmonton, Etobicoke Swim Club; two-time Olympian (1988, 1992) and four-medallist at the 1991 Havana Pan American Games, with two golds.