Stjepan Janić
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
Representing Yugoslavia | ||
World Championships | ||
1998 Szeged | K-2 1000 m | |
Representing Croatia | ||
Mediterranean Games | ||
2005 Almería | K1 1000 m | |
2005 Almería | K2 500 m | |
2009 Pescara | K1 500 m | |
2009 Pescara | K1 1000 m |
Stjepan Janić (Serbian: Стјепан Јанић; born 24 November 1980 in Bačka Palanka, Serbia), is a Serbian and Croatian sprint canoer.
In 1998, he won his first silver medal as a member of the Serbia and Montenegro (then under Yugoslavia) crew which took the K-2 1000 m title at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. In 2004, he started competing for Croatia.
Janić is a member of the Kajak klub Jarun from Zagreb. He is 6’0” (1.84 m) tall and weighs 190 lbs (86 kg). He is the son of Serbian canoer Milan Janić. His sister is Nataša Janić, a multiple canoe Olympic gold medalist for Hungary.
Janić competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing seventh in the K-1 1000 m and ninth in the K-1 500 m events.
References
[edit]- 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)
- Sports-reference.com profile
Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bačka Palanka
- Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Croatian male canoeists
- Olympic canoeists for Croatia
- Serbian male canoeists
- Yugoslav male canoeists
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Croatia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Croatia
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
- Serbia and Montenegro male canoeists
- 21st-century Serbian sportsmen
- European canoeist stubs
- Serbian sportspeople stubs
- Croatian sportspeople stubs