Ken Wallace (canoeist)
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| Full name | Kenneth Maxwell Wallace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 July 1983 [1] Gosford, New South Wales |
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| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Currumbin Creek Canoe Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenneth "Ken" Wallace (born 26 July 1983) is an Australian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-2000s, winning gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at several World Championships.
Biography
Born in Gosford, New South Wales, Wallace originally competed in Ironman events and only switched to sprint racing at the age of sixteen. Two years later he was K-1 1000 m junior world champion in Curitiba, Brazil.
In 2006, with Australian number one Nathan Baggaley serving a drugs ban, Wallace was selected to represent Australia at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary, where he placed fifth in the K-1 1000 m final.
In 2007, Wallace at the ICF World Championships held in Duisburg, Germany placed 4th in the K-1 1000m Final. This result qualified Australia a birth at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Wallace won two medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with gold in the K-1 500 m and bronze in the K-1 1000 m events.[3] He also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 2010) and a bronze (K-1 500 m: 2009).
In February 2011, Wallace competed in the third season of the Channel Seven television series Australia's Greatest Athlete.
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| Preceded by | Australian Athlete of the Year 2008 (with Heath Francis) |
Succeeded by Emma Moffatt and Brenton Rickard |
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