Bohumil Kudrna (15 March 1920 – 11 February 1991) was a Czechoslovakia

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n flatwater canoer

Canoe racing

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 and slalom canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with Jan Brzák-Felix

Jan Brzák-Felix

Jan Brzák-Felix was a Czechoslovakian slalom and sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s...

 in the C-2 1000 m event with a gold in 1948

1948 Summer Olympics

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  and a silver in 1952

1952 Summer Olympics

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Kudrna won two gold medals at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen

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, earning them in the C-2 1000 m and C-2 10000 m events.

He also won a bronze medal in the C-2 event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

The 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of International Canoe Federation.-Note:Only two teams competed in the men's C-1 team, men's C-2 team, and women's folding K-1 team events.-Canoe:-Kayak:...

 in Geneva

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