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| medaltemplates-title = | module3 = | updated = 27 October 2015 }} Kenneth "Ken" Wallace (born 26 July 1983) is an Australian sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-2000s, winning gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at several World Championships. ==Biography== Born in Gosford, New South Wales, Wallace originally competed in Ironman events and only switched to sprint racing at the age of sixteen. Two years later he was K-1 1000 m junior world champion in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2006, with Australian number one Nathan Baggaley serving a drugs ban, Wallace was selected to represent Australia at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary, where he placed fifth in the K-1 1000 m final. In 2007, Wallace at the ICF World Championships held in Duisburg, Germany placed 4th in the K-1 1000m Final. This result qualified Australia a birth at the 2008 Olympic Games. Wallace won two medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with gold in the K-1 500 m and bronze in the K-1 1000 m events. He also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 2010) and a bronze (K-1 500 m: 2009). In February 2011, Wallace competed in the third season of the Channel Seven television series Australia's Greatest Athlete. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Wallace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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