page_title: Liam Heath
section_title: 2016 Olympics
hierarchical_section_title: Liam Heath / Career / 2016 Olympics
caption_attribution_description: Rio 2016. Canoagem de velocidade/Canoe sprint - Men's K1 200m heat
context_page_description: Liam Heath MBE is a British sprint canoeist. He was a gold medalist in the individual 200m kayak sprint event, and a silver in the men's double with Jon Schofield at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is the most successful British canoeist at the Olympics, with an additional a bronze at the 2012 London Olympics in the K-2 200 with Schofield.
  He is a member of Wey Kayak Club.
context_section_description: British Canoeing held its Olympic Selection event for canoe sprint in April 2016 in Nottingham, during which Heath and Schofield won the K2 200m race, setting a course record and guaranteeing their nomination to the BOC to compete at the Rio Olympics. At the same event Heath won the K1 200m race making him "holder" of the right to also be nominated for this event in Rio. At World Cup 1 in Duisburg Heath was joint-3rd in the K1 200m and, with Schofield, came 7th in the K2 200m. A week later, at World Cup 2 in Racice, the duo won bronze and on the following day Heath came first in the K1 200m race. At the end of June Heath became the K1 200m 2016 European Canoe Sprint Champion in Moscow.
  At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Heath and Schofield won the silver K-2 200 event, finishing behind Spain's Saúl Craviotto and Cristian Toro. He then won the gold in the K-1 200 final, making him the then most successful British canoeist at the Olympics, overtaking Tim Brabants' record of one gold and two bronze medals.
  The K-2 200m event was dropped for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Heath therefore focused his attention on the single Kayak events in the following seasons.
caption: Liam Heath (No. 7 in the foreground) at the Rio Olympics Men's K1 200m heats
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