Jan Brzák-Felix

Jan Brzák-Felix was a Czech slalom and sprint canoeist. He competed for Czechoslovakia from the mid-1930s to the early 1950s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the C-2 1000 m event, including two golds and a silver.
Brzák-Felix also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds and one silver.
He also competed at the Geneva 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and earned two silver medals and two bronze medals.
In 1955, Brzák-Felix teamed up with 1936 C-1 1000 m silver medalist Bohuslav Karlík to paddle the 118 miles of the Vltava from České Budějovice to Prague in 20 hours.