Markus Swoboda

Markus Swoboda

Personal information
Born	5 February 1990 (1990-02-05) (age 36)
Sport
Sport	Paracanoe
Disability class	KL2
Medal record Men's paracanoeing Representing  Austria Paralympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro KL2 Sprint World Championships 2010 Poznań K-1 TA 2011 Szeged K-1 TA 2012 Poznań K-1 TA 2013 Duisburg K-1 TA 2014 Moscow K-1 TA 2015 Milan KL2 2016 Duisburg KL2 2017 Račice KL2 2017 Račice VL2 2021 Copenhagen KL2 Sprint European Championships 2013 Montemor-o-Velho K-1 TA 2015 Račice KL2 2016 Moscow KL2 2017 Plovdiv KL2 2017 Plovdiv VL2 2018 Belgrade KL2 2019 Poznań KL2 2021 Poznań KL2 Marathon World Championships 2025 Győr KL2 2025 Győr VL3

Markus Mendy Swoboda (born 5 February 1990) is an Austrian paracanoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 200 m TA event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań.

In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships and won a gold medal in the VL3 event with a time of 53:31.78. This marked the first time paracanoe was competed in marathon distances at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships.^[1]

• "Markus Swoboda". Paralympic.org.
• "2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships men's K-1 200 m TA results". kayak2010.com. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2010.