Max Rendschmidt

Max Rendschmidt is a German Olympic canoeist. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won two gold medals, in Canoeing at the [2016 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres|K-2 1000 metres] and Canoeing at the 2016 [Summer Olympics – Men's K-4 1000 metres|K-4 1000 m] events. He also won gold in the K-4 500 metres at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career

He is a five-time ICF [Canoe Sprint World Championships|world champion] and seven-time European champion. On 1 November 2016, Rendschmidt received the Silver [Laurel Leaf], the highest award for an athlete in Germany, from the Federal [President of Germany|German Federal President] Joachim Gauck in Berlin. He works for the German Federal Police.