Tim Brabants was born on 23 January 1977 in Chertsey. He is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold in 2008: K-1 1000 m and two bronzes in 2000: K-1 1000 m, 2008: K-1 500 m. Brabants won the K-1 1000 m European championship at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had won the blue riband event.
Olympics 2004 were a bit disappointment. Brabants had won a European silver medal at Poznan earlier in the season and was the fastest qualifier for the Olympic K-1 1000 m final with the world's fastest time of 3:24.41. However in the final itself he finished in fifth place. He took a year off from competitive kayaking in 2005 to complete his medical studies at the highly regarded University of Nottingham followed by a spell as a doctor in Jersey. But returned to action in 2006, winning the gold medal in Racice in the K-1 1000 m event at the European Championships and the silver medal in the same event at the World Championships in Szeged in August 2006, finishing just 0.06 seconds behind Sweden's Markus Oscars son.2007 was an even better year for him. Brabants competed in the K-1 500 m discipline as well and at the European Championships won Silver for the 1000 m and Gold for the 500 m. At the 2007 World Championships in Duisburg, Brabants won gold in the K-1 1000 m and silver in the K-1 500 m events, thus securing a place for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
At these games Brabants made his way into the history books by being the first Brit to win a gold medal in either the sprint or slalom kayak discipline. This he achieved by a convincing win in the K-1 1000 m, leading from start to finish. Although best known as a sprinter, Brabants' first success as a senior international had in fact come in the marathon. He won a silver medal at the 1998 World Championships in Cape Town, South Africa.
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