Martin Hiller (canoeist)
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 2000 Potsdam, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sprint kayak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | KC Potsdam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Arndt Hanisch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martin Hiller (born 8 April 2000) is a German sprint canoeist.[1][2] He became World Champion at the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships over K2 1000 metres with his partner Tamás Grossmann.[3]
In 2025, he received a four-year doping suspension.[4]
Career
Hillers career began with some early successes at junior world championships. At his second attempt in 2017 he won the K4 Junior 500 and reached second place in the K4 Junior 500 and K1 Junior 1000 in 2018.[3]
In 2019, he placed third at the U23 World Championships in the K2 1000 metres race and repeated this success at the K2 Senior 500 with another third place.
In 2021, Hiller was in good form when he experienced the disappointment of only being nominated as an alternate for the Tokyo Olympics. Without him, the team won gold in the K4 over 500 metres.[5]
In the same year, he was then able to show off his performance at the World Championships in Copenhagen: He won at the U23 World Championships over 1000 metres in the K1 and came second at the Men's World Championships in the K2 over 500 metres.[2]
2022 was difficult for him both mentally and physically, as he struggled with cardiac arrhythmia and venous thrombosis and had to come to terms with the death of his mother. Despite this, he and his partner Tamás Grossmann became world champions in the K2 over 1000 metres in Canada. Just two weeks later, the duo also won the European Championships in Oberschleissheim in the same discipline.[6]
In 2024, he once again missed out on making the Olympic team. Instead, he won bronze in the 1000 metres K2 at the World Championships in Sarmakand.
Doping
In 2024, just a few weeks after the World Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where he came third in the two-man kayak over 1000 metres, he tested positive in an out-of-competition doping test. A second test a month later also came back positive. The three different anabolic steroids methandrostenolone, metandienone and ostarine were detected.[4]
He was the first case of a convicted doper that only became public in Germany as a result of an investigation by the ARD doping editorial team, as the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has not published the names of any closed cases since 2020 for legal data protection reasons.[4]
In February 2025, the case was finally decided and a four-year doping ban was imposed.[7]
Major results
World championships
| Year | K-1 1000 | K-2 500 | K-2 1000 |
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| 2019 | |||
| 2021 | 5 | ||
| 2022 | |||
| 2023 | 6 | ||
| 2024 | — | — |
References
- ^ "Profile".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Martin Hiller". KCPotsdam. Archived from the original on 2025-02-22.
- ^ a b "Results". ICF - Planet Canoe. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ a b c Winterfeldt, Hajo Seppelt, Lea Löffler, Nick Butler, Jörg. "Prominent doping case: ARD investigation: doping ban for canoeing world champion Hiller". sportschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Gutsche, Tobias (2025-05-26). "Doping: Vier Jahre Sperre für Martin Hiller - Kanute prahlte mit Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln". www.maz-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ "Hiller/Grossmann holen EM-Gold im Kajak-Zweier". sport.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ "Canoeing: Decision in Martin Hiller case". www.nada.de. Retrieved 2025-06-13.