🚣Olaf Tufte

#11GOAT Rankings

NorwayCountry

2000–2016Career

Why they rank here

Olympic champion in the men's single in 2004 and again in 2008, with a bronze in the same boat in 2016. Two Olympic titles in the single, a Games apart, is a rarer double than a pair that stays together, because the single is reselected from the whole world every year. Tufte's place behind Drysdale is the one-gold difference plus Drysdale's world-title run, not a claim that Athens and Beijing were small races. They were the event.

Career profile

Olympic golds

2

Olympic medals

3

Games raced

5

Career years

16

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vs Steve Redgravevs Elisabeta Lipăvs Georgeta Damianvs Matthew Pinsentvs Kathrin Boronvs Pertti Karppinenvs Vyacheslav Ivanovvs Hamish Bondvs Ekaterina Karstenvs Mahe Drysdalevs Emma Twigg

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1 Steve Redgrave2 Elisabeta Lipă3 Georgeta Damian4 Matthew Pinsent5 Kathrin Boron6 Pertti Karppinen7 Vyacheslav Ivanov8 Hamish Bond

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