Jordan Wood
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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1994-08-01) 1 August 1994 (age 30) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jordan Wood (born 1 August 1994) is an Australian canoeist. He competed in the men's K-2 200 metres and men's K-4 1000 metres events at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Wood teamed up with Lachlan Tame, Murray Stewart and Riley Fitzsimmons in the men's K-4 500m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The team came second in their heat with a time of 1.22:662. In their semi-final they paddled quite a bit slower but still managed to come second and qualify for the final. They couldn't keep up their good form and came sixth in the final, nearly 3 seconds behind the eventual winner, Germany.[2]
Early years
Wood grew up on the Gold Coast, Queensland and therefore was always surrounded by water. In his junior years he preferred racing mountain bikes but his downhill mountain biking injuries took its toll and started kayaking seriously at the age of 15.
His parents were Olympic kayakers. His late father Steve Wood won K4 1000 metres bronze at Barcelona 1992. Wood's mother Anna Wood initially competed for The Netherlands but then went onto win the K2 500m bronze for Australia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She was then placed sixth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Anna Wood is now the coach of the Australian women's canoe sprint team.[3]
Achievements
At the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival Wood won gold in the K2 1000 and silver in the K1 1000 and K2 200
In 2015, he partnered with Riley Fitzsimmons and won K2 1000 gold at the Under 23 World Championships.
The pair then won the first Grand Prix regatta of the 2016 season, defeating 2015 World Championships silver medalists and Olympians Ken Wallace and Lachlan Tame.
Wood teamed with Jacob Clear, Riley Fitzsimmons and Ken Wallace in the K4 1000 at the Rio 2016 Olympics. The crew went down fighting in the final to finish fourth behind Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.[3]
References
External links
- Jordan Wood at the International Canoe Federation
- Jordan Wood at Olympedia
- Jordan Wood at the Australian Olympic Committee
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- 1938: Germany
- 1948: Sweden
- 1950: Sweden
- Einar Pihl
- Hans Eriksson
- Lars Pettersson
- Berndt Häppling
- 1954: Hungary
- Imre Vagyóczki
- László Kovács
- László Nagy
- Zoltán Szigeti
- 1958: West Germany
- Michel Scheuer
- Georg Lietz
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- 1963: East Germany
- Günter Perleberg
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- Yuri Filatov
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- Yuri Filatov
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- Valeri Didenko
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- Per-Inge Bengtsson
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- Thomas Ohlsson
- Bengt Andersson
- 1983: Romania
- 1985: Sweden
- Per-Inge Bengtsson
- Lars-Erik Moberg
- Kalle Sundqvist
- Bengt Andersson
- 1986: Hungary
- Ferenc Csipes
- Zsolt Gyulay
- László Fidel
- Zoltán Kovács
- 1987: Hungary
- Zsolt Gyulay
- Ferenc Csipes
- László Fidel
- Zoltán Kovács
- 1989: Hungary
- 1990: Hungary
- 1991: Hungary
- 1993: Germany
- 1994: Russia
- 1995: Germany
- 1997: Germany
- 1998: Germany
- 1999: Hungary
- Zoltán Kammerer
- Botond Storcz
- Ákos Vereckei
- Gábor Horváth
- 2001: Germany
- 2002: Slovakia
- 2003: Slovakia
- 2005: Germany
- 2006: Hungary
- Ákos Vereckei
- Roland Kökény
- Lajos Gyökös
- Gábor Horváth
- 2007: Germany
- 2009: Belarus
- 2010: France
- Arnaud Hybois
- Étienne Hubert
- Sébastien Jouve
- Philippe Colin
- 2011: Germany
- Norman Bröckl
- Robert Gleinert
- Max Hoff
- Paul Mittelstedt
- 2013: Russia
- Vitaly Yurchenko
- Vasily Pogreban
- Anton Vasilev
- Oleg Zhestkov
- 2014: Czech Republic
- Daniel Havel
- Lukáš Trefil
- Josef Dostál
- Jan Štěrba
- 2015: Slovakia
- 2017: Australia
- Ken Wallace
- Jordan Wood
- Riley Fitzsimmons
- Murray Stewart
- 2018: Germany
- 2019: Germany
- Lukas Reuschenbach
- Felix Frank
- Jakob Thordsen
- Tobias-Pascal Schultz