Tomasz Wylenzek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German sprint canoeist
Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1983
Place of Birth: Gmina Świerklaniec, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Profession: canoeist, kayaker
Nationality: Poland, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Tomasz Wylenzek
- Tomasz Wylenzek (Polish: Tomasz Wylenzek) (born 9 January 1983 in Nowe Chechlo, Silesia, Poland) is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000s. Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at Curitiba, Brazil.
- The following year, still only 19, he was promoted to the German senior squad as C-2 partner for the more experienced Christian Gille.
- At the 2002 World Championships in Seville, they finished seventh in the 500 m final. At Wylenzek's first Olympics in Athens, he and Gille won a surprise gold in the C-2 1000 m event. In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event, showing that their Athens victory was not a fluke.
- A clean sweep of medals (200 m, 500 m and 1000 m) at the European Championships in Poznan, Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500 m and 1000 m) at the World Championships in Zagreb. 2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years.
- Gille and Wylenzek lost out to Stefan Holtz and Robert Nuck in the German C-2 500 m trial and were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance.
- Wylenzek was philosophical as they lost their other titles too, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships (European C-2 1000 m and world C-2 200 m). Wylenzek won two more Olympic medals at Beijing in 2008 with a silver in the C-1 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events.
- since those games, he has won two more world championships medals with a gold in 2009 (C-2 1000 m) and a bronze in 2010 (C-4 1000 m). Wylenzek lives in Essen.
- He is 183 centimetres (6 feet 0 inches) tall and weighs 85 kg (187 lb).
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