Heidi Pillwein
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Heidi Pillwein is an Austria
n slalom canoer who competed in the 1940s and 1950s. She won a gold medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
in Geneva
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Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n slalom canoer who competed in the 1940s and 1950s. She won a gold medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
The 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of International Canoe Federation.-Note:Only two teams competed in the men's C-1 team, men's C-2 team, and women's folding K-1 team events.-Canoe:-Kayak:...
in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
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