Nico Bettge

Nico Bettge (born 15 May 1980) is a German slalom canoeist who has competed in C1 since the 1997. Since 2014 he has also competed in C2 together with David Schröder.

Bettge won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C1 team: 2006) and six silvers (C1: 2011; C1 team: 1999, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015).

He is the overall World Cup champion in the C1 class from 2007. He also won 13 medals at the European Championships (3 golds, 5 silvers and 5 bronzes).

World Cup individual podiums Total C1 5 2 2 9 C2 0 2 1 3 Total 5 4 3 12

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent 2000 30 July 2000 Augsburg 3rd C1 2002 21 July 2002 Augsburg 1st C1 2004 18 July 2004 Augsburg 2nd C1 2006 11 June 2006 La Seu d'Urgell 1st C1 2007 18 March 2007 Foz do Iguaçu 2nd C11 8 July 2007 Tacen 3rd C1 15 July 2007 Augsburg 1st C1 2008 29 June 2008 Tacen 1st C1 2010 4 July 2010 Augsburg 1st C1 2016 5 June 2016 Ivrea 2nd C2 12 June 2016 La Seu d'Urgell 3rd C2 2017 9 September 2017 La Seu d'Urgell 2nd C2

1 Pan American Championship counting for World Cup points