Bruce Lessels

Bruce Lessels
Medal record

Men's canoe slalom
Representing United States
World Championships
	1987 Bourg St.-Maurice	C-1 team
	1987 Bourg St.-Maurice	C-1

Bruce Lessels is an American slalom canoer who competed in the 1980s. He won two medals at the 1987 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bourg St.-Maurice with a gold in the C-1 team event and a bronze in the C-1 event.

Bruce is currently married with two daughters and owns an outdoor adventure company called Zoar Outdoor in Western Massachusetts.

References

ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.

World Champions in Men's Canoe Slalom C-1 team

1949: France (Pierre d'Alençon, Paul Huguet & Marcel Renaud)
1951: Czechoslovakia (Václav Nič, Jaroslav Váňa & Jan Pecka)
1953: Czechoslovakia (Vladimír Jirásek, Jan Šulc & Stanislav Jánský)
1955: Czechoslovakia (Vladimír Jirásek, Jiří Hradil & Luděk Beneš)
1957: West Germany (Günther Beck, Heiner Stumpf & Otto Stumpf)
1959: Czechoslovakia (Luděk Beneš, Václav Janovský & Vladimír Jirásek)
1961: Czechoslovakia (Tibor Sýkora, Jaroslav Pollert & Bohuslav Pospíchal)
1963: East Germany (Karl-Heinz Wozniak, Gert Kleinert & Manfred Schubert)
1965: Czechoslovakia (Jiří Vočka, Luděk Beneš & Bohuslav Pospíchal)
1967: Czechoslovakia (Karel Kumpfmüller, Bohuslav Pospíchal & Petr Sodomka)
1969: West Germany (Wolfgang Peters, Harald Cuypers & Reinhold Kauder)
1971: East Germany (Jürgen Köhler, Wulf Reinicke & Jochen Förster)
1973: Czechoslovakia (Jaroslav Radil, Karel Třešňák & Petr Sodomka)
1975: Czechoslovakia (Petr Sodomka, Jaroslav Radil & Karel Třešňák)
1977: East Germany (Reinhard Eiben, Peter Massalski & Lutz Körner)
1979: United States (Jon Lugbill, David Hearn & Bob Robison)
1981: United States (Jon Lugbill, David Hearn & Ron Lugbill)
1983: United States (Jon Lugbill, David Hearn & Kent Ford)
1985: United States (David Hearn, Jon Lugbill & Kent Ford)
1987: United States (Jon Lugbill, David Hearn & Bruce Lessels)
1989: United States (Jon Lugbill, David Hearn & Jed Prentice)
1991: United States (Adam Clawson, Jon Lugbill & Jed Prentice)
1993: Slovenia (Jože Vidmar, Boštjan Žitnik & Simon Hočevar)
1995: Germany (Vitus Husek, Sören Kaufmann & Martin Lang)
1997: Slovakia (Michal Martikán, Juraj Minčík & Juraj Ontko)
1999: Poland (Krzysztof Bieryt, Sławomir Mordarski & Mariusz Wieczorek)
2002: Czech Republic (Přemysl Vlk, Jan Mašek & Stanislav Ježek)
2003: Slovakia (Alexander Slafkovský, Juraj Minčík & Michal Martikán)
2005: France (Olivier Lalliet, Pierre Labarelle & Tony Estanguet)
2006: Germany (Stefan Pfannmöller, Nico Bettge & Jan Benzien)
2007: France (Tony Estanguet, Pierre Labarelle & Nicolas Peschier)
2009: Slovakia (Alexander Slafkovský, Michal Martikán & Matej Beňuš)
2010: Slovakia (Michal Martikán, Alexander Slafkovský & Matej Beňuš)
2011: Slovakia (Michal Martikán, Alexander Slafkovský & Matej Beňuš)
2013: Slovakia (Michal Martikán, Alexander Slafkovský & Matej Beňuš)
2014: Slovakia (Michal Martikán, Alexander Slafkovský & Matej Beňuš)
2015: Slovakia (Michal Martikán, Alexander Slafkovský & Matej Beňuš)

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