Juraj Bača

Juraj Bača

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing Slovakia
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	K-4 1000 m
World Championships
	1998 Szeged	K-2 500 m
	1999 Milan	K-2 1000 m
	2002 Seville	K-4 500 m
	2002 Seville	K-4 1000 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-4 500 m
	2003 Gainesville	K-4 1000 m
	2001 Poznań	K-4 500 m

Juraj Bača (born 17 March 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoeist who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.

Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).

After retiring from competition, Bača now works as a kayak coach. In autumn 2006 he appeared on the celebrity TV dance competition Let's Dance.

Bača was a member of the ŠKP Bratislava club. He is 186 cm (6'1") tall and raced at 86 kg (189 lbs).

References

• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk.
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: BCU.org.uk.
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). "Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–83. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.

External links

• Juraj Bača at Olympedia
• Juraj Bača at Olympics.com
• Juraj Bača at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)