Marcus Cooper Walz
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Birth name | Marcus Cooper Walz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British (former) Spanish (current) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Oxford, England[1] | 3 October 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Sprint kayak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Reial Club Nàutic Portopetro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marcus Cooper Walz (born 3 October 1994) is a sprint canoeist. Born in England, he has competed internationally for Spain since the early 2010s. He won the gold medal in the K-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2] He won the silver medal in the Men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade.
Born in Oxford to an English father and a German mother,[1] the family established in Mallorca when Cooper was 3 months old.[3] Walz became a Spanish national in 2015.[4] On 26 June 2024, the Spanish Olympic Committee selected Cooper, together with the Olympic boat driver Támara Echegoyen, as the flag bearers for París 2024.[5][6]
Cooper competed as Marcus Walz until 2022.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "COOPER Marcus". Paris 2024 Olympics.
- ^ "Marcus Walz". Rio 2016 Olympics. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "De Oxford a Mallorca: Marcus Cooper Walz se hace con el oro en la modalidad K1 de 1000 metros". El Español. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ Mínguez, Jesús (16 August 2016). "Spain's Olympic hero Walz only became 'Spanish' one year ago". Diario AS. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Marcus Cooper y Támara Echegoyen serán los abanderados de España en París" (in Spanish). El País.com. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ "Clasificación y Plazas Olímpicas París 2024 *". CSD – Consejo Superior de Deportes (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Marcus Cooper". International Canoe Federation. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Oxford
- English people of German descent
- English emigrants to Spain
- Naturalised citizens of Spain
- Naturalised sports competitors
- Spanish male canoeists
- Spanish people of German descent
- Olympic canoeists for Spain
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain
- Olympic silver medalists for Spain
- Olympic bronze medalists for Spain
- Sportspeople from Mallorca
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
- Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Canoeists at the 2019 European Games
- Canoeists at the 2023 European Games
- European Games gold medalists for Spain
- European Games medalists in canoeing
- 21st-century Spanish sportsmen