Nikica Ljubek
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| Born | 19 October 1980 Osijek, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia | |||||||||||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||
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Nikica Ljubek (born 19 October 1980) is a Croatian sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the early 2000s. He was born in Osijek. He was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-1 1000 m and the C-2 500 m events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1]
He later competed in canoe marathons, and won silver at the 2008 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in the Czech Republic in the C-1 26 km category. In the 2010 World Championship held in Banyoles, Spain, he finished 4th in the same event.
He is the son of Matija Ljubek (1953–2000), a former Olympic and World Champion canoe racer who won four Olympic medals competing for Yugoslavia between 1976 and 1984.
References
[edit]- ^ "Nikica Ljubek". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
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