Marcus Walz

Marcus Walz (lane 5)
Personal information
Full name	Marcus Cooper Walz
Nationality	English Spanish
Born	(1994-10-03) 3 October 1994 (age 29) Oxford, England
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country	Spain
Sport	Sprint kayak
Club	Reial Club Nàutic Portopetro
Medal record Men's sprint kayak Representing  Spain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-1 1000 m 2020 Tokyo K-4 500 m World Championships 2017 Račice K-2 500 m 2021 Copenhagen K-2 500 m 2022 Dartmouth K-4 500 m 2015 Milan K-2 500 m 2017 Račice K-4 500 m 2018 Montemor-o-Velho K-4 500 m 2019 Szeged K-4 500 m 2014 Moscow K-1 500 m European Games 2023 Kraków-Małopolska K-4 500 m European Championships 2017 Plovdiv K-4 1000 m 2018 Belgrade K-4 500 m 2018 Belgrade K-2 500 m Mediterranean Games 2018 Tarragona K-2 500 m

Marcus Cooper Walz (born 3 October 1994) is an English-born Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed internationally since the early 2010s. He won the gold medal in the K-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[1] He won the silver medal in the Men's K-4 500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade.

Born in Oxford to an American father and an English/German mother, the family established in Mallorca when Walz was 3 months old.^[2]