Hugh Fisher (canoeist)
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Born | (1955-10-01) October 1, 1955 (age 68) Hamilton, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hugh Fisher, CM (born October 1, 1955) is a New Zealand-born Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. He participated in three Summer Olympics: in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; in 1984 in Los Angeles; and in 1988 in Seoul, Korea. He was also named to the 1980 Olympic team for Canada,[1] but did not compete due to the Canadian boycott of those Games. At the 1984 Games with his racing partner Alwyn Morris, he won two medals, a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events.
Fisher and Morris also won medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in the K-2 1000 m in 1982 and a bronze in the K-2 500 m in 1983.[2]
In 1985, he was awarded the Order of Canada for his athletic achievements. In 1985 he was also inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame, and is the only canoeing athlete honoured.[3][4] He was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986,[5] and to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.[6]
Fisher was for many years a medical doctor in the towns of Pemberton and Whistler, British Columbia.
References
- ^ "Eight Quebecers on canoe, kayak teams". Montreal Gazette. 3 June 1980. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ "Hugh Fisher". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ "Hugh Fisher". BC Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Find a Member". BC Sports Hall of Fame. Canoeing. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame". Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ "Hugh Fisher". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- Hugh Fisher at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Northlands Medical Clinic physician profile featuring Fisher. Archived 23 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1936: Adolf Kainz / Alfons Dorfner (AUT)
- 1948: Hans Berglund / Lennart Klingström (SWE)
- 1952: Kurt Wires / Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)
- 1956: Michel Scheuer / Meinrad Miltenberger (EUA)
- 1960: Gert Fredriksson / Sven-Olov Sjödelius (SWE)
- 1964: Sven-Olov Sjödelius / Gunnar Utterberg (SWE)
- 1968: Aleksandr Shaparenko / Vladimir Morozov (URS)
- 1972: Nikolai Gorbachev / Viktor Kratasyuk (URS)
- 1976: Serhei Nahorny / Vladimir Romanovsky (URS)
- 1980: Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergei Chukhray (URS)
- 1984: Hugh Fisher / Alwyn Morris (CAN)
- 1988: Greg Barton / Norman Bellingham (USA)
- 1992: Kay Bluhm / Torsten Gutsche (GER)
- 1996: Daniele Scarpa / Antonio Rossi (ITA)
- 2000: Antonio Rossi / Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)
- 2004: Markus Oscarsson / Henrik Nilsson (SWE)
- 2008: Andreas Ihle / Martin Hollstein (GER)
- 2012: Rudolf Dombi / Roland Kökény (HUN)
- 2016: Max Rendschmidt / Marcus Gross (GER)
- 2020: Jean van der Westhuyzen / Thomas Green (AUS)
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