About Thomas Loose
Born 1964. Thomas Loose is a German canoeist.
Thomas Loose (born 19 January 1964 in Bottrop) is a West German-German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won a gold medal for West Germany in the C2 event at the 1989 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Savage River, Maryland in the United States. He also won three bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in the C2 team event (1987, 1989, 1991).
Loose competed for Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, finishing 13th in the C2 event.
His partner in the boat throughout the whole of his career was Frank Hemmer.
World Cup individual podiums
SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent 1988 7 August 1988 Dublin 1st C2 14 August 1988 Nottingham 2nd C2 21 August 1988 Augsburg 1st C21989 15 Aug 1989 Augsburg 3rd C21992 31 May 1992 Nottingham 2nd C2
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German canoeist
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Thomas Loose was born on 19 January 1964 in Bottrop.
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