Tomasz Wylenzek
Tomasz Wylenzek is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s.
Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at Curitiba, Brazil. The following year, still only 19, he was promoted to the German senior squad as C-2 partner for the more experienced Christian Gille. At the 2002 World Championships in Seville, they finished seventh in the 500 m final.
At Wylenzek's first Olympics in Athens, he and Gille won a surprise gold in the C-2 1000 m event.
In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event, showing that their Athens victory was not a fluke. A clean sweep of medals at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland, in May was followed by two golds at the World Championships in Zagreb.
2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years. Gille and Wylenzek lost out to Stefan Holtz and Robert Nuck in the German C-2 500 m trial and were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance. Wylenzek was philosophical as they lost their other titles too, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships.
Wylenzek won two more Olympic medals at Beijing in 2008 with a silver in the C-1 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events. since those games, he has won two more world championships medals with a gold in 2009 and a bronze in 2010.
Wylenzek lives in Essen. He is tall and weighs.
