Kurt Liebhart

Kurt Liebhart
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Austria
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1954 MâconC-2 1000 m

Kurt Liebhart (Korneuburg, 22 August 1933 – Klosterneuburg, 11 January 2010) was an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, Liebhart earned his best finish of sixth in the C-2 1000 m event at Helsinki in 1952.

Paired with Herwig Dirnböck, he finished ninth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

He was the brother of Gertrude Liebhart and the nephew of Karl Molnar, both also Olympic canoeists representing Austria (at the 1952 and 1948 Summer Olympics respectively).

References

  • 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)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kurt Liebhart". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  • Kurt Liebhart's obituary Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine (in German)


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