Thomas Loose


Thomas Loose 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)|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.
Loose competed for Germany at the 1992 [Summer Olympics] in Barcelona, finishing 13th in the Canoeing at the [1992 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom C-2|C2 event].
His partner in the boat throughout the whole of his career was Frank Hemmer.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
198915 Aug 1989Augsburg3rdC2
199231 May 1992Nottingham2ndC2