Michael Senft

Michael Senft (born 28 September 1972 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C2 event in 1996 in Atlanta.

Michael Senft

Medal record
Men's canoe slalom
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	C2
World Championships
	2005 Penrith	C2
	1997 Três Coroas	C2
	2002 Bourg St.-Maurice	C2 team
	2003 Augsburg	C2 team
	1995 Nottingham	C2 team
	1997 Três Coroas	C2 team
European Championships
	1996 Augsburg	C2 team
	2005 Tacen	C2 team
	2002 Bratislava	C2 team

Senft also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C2: 2005), three silvers (C2: 1997, C2 team: 2002, 2003) and two bronzes (C2 team: 1995, 1997). He earned three more medals at the European Championships (1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze).

His partner in the boat for most of his career was André Ehrenberg. From 2004 he paddled with Christian Bahmann.

World Cup individual podiums

				Total
C2	2	6	9	17

Season	Date	Venue	Position	Event
1994	3 July 1994	Augsburg	3rd	C2
1995	16 July 1995	Lofer	3rd	C2
1996	16 June 1996	Augsburg	3rd	C2
1998	28 June 1998	Augsburg	3rd	C2
1999	15 August 1999	Bratislava	2nd	C2
	22 August 1999	Augsburg	2nd	C2
2000	30 July 2000	Augsburg	1st	C2
2001	3 June 2001	Merano	2nd	C2
	9 September 2001	Wausau	2nd	C2
2002	26 May 2002	Guangzhou	3rd	C2
	28 July 2002	Tacen	3rd	C2
2004	25 April 2004	Athens	3rd	C2
	23 May 2004	La Seu d'Urgell	2nd	C2
	11 July 2004	Prague	3rd	C2
	17 July 2004	Augsburg	3rd	C2
2005	16 July 2005	Augsburg	2nd	C2
	2 October 2005	Penrith	1st	C21

¹ World Championship counting for World Cup points

References

• Profile at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 8, 2007)
• 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)

External links

• Michael Senft at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)