Anna Wood (kayaker)
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| Birth name | Annemarie Cox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 July 1966 Roermond, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Australia  Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | K-1 5000 m, K-2 500 m, K-2 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Roermondse Watersport Vereniging Nautilus Gold Coast Canoe Canoe Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia.
Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m: 1991, K-2 500 m: 1987, 1997; K-2 1000 m: 1997), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1985).
She also represented the Dutch kayak team from 1983 to 1989.[citation needed]
Wood's husband, Steven (1961–95), won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder 1990–1994.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X.
- ABC.net.au profile
- "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- "ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 November 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anna Cox-Wood". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
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