Martin Hiller

Martin Hiller (born 8 April 2000) is a German sprint canoeist. He became World Champion at the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships over K2 1000 metres with his partner Tamás Grossmann.

Career Hillers career began with some early successes at junior world championships. At his second attempt in 2017 he won the K4 Junior 500 and reached second place in the K4 Junior 500 and K1 Junior 1000 in 2018.

In 2019, he placed third at the U23 World Championships in the K2 1000 metres race and repeated this success at the K2 Senior 500 with another third place.

In 2021, Hiller was in good form when he experienced the disappointment of only being nominated as an alternate for the Tokyo Olympics. Without him, the team won gold in the K4 over 500 metres.

In the same year, he was then able to show off his performance at the World Championships in Copenhagen: He won at the U23 World Championships over 1000 metres in the K1 and came second at the Men's World Championships in the K2 over 500 metres.

In 2024, he once again missed out on making the Olympic team. Instead, he won bronze in the 1000 metres K2 at the World Championships in Sarmakand.

Doping In 2024, just a few weeks after the World Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where he came third in the two-man kayak over 1000 metres, he tested positive in an out-of-competition doping test. A second test a month later also came back positive. The three different anabolic steroids methandrostenolone, metandienone and ostarine were detected.

Major results World championships