Thomas Hall
- January 4, 2024
- Canoeist
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Thomas Hall Biography
Name | Thomas Hall |
Birthday | Feb 21 |
Birth Year | 1982 |
Place Of Birth | Montreal |
Home Town | Montreal |
Birth Country | Canada |
Birth Sign | Pisces |
Thomas Hall is one of the most popular and richest Canoeist who was born on February 21, 1982 in Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Thomas Hall, OLY (born February 21, 1982) is an Olympic sprint canoeist from Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada. Training with the Pointe-Claire Canoe Club, he began his international career in 1999, winning a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the Junior World Championships. By the time of the 2008 Summer Olympics, he had made a total of 44 top three finishes in international canoeing competitions, including 14 wins. Among these were a gold and a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. At the Beijing Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the Men’s C-1 1000 metres event.
Born in Montreal, he grew up in suburban Pointe-Claire. His mother had competed in the North American kayak championships. His sister is a competitive kayaker as well, while his brother James is a musician in The Sam Roberts Band. For Thomas Steve Giles, Attila Buday Tamas Buday Jr. and Andreas Dittmer are among his role models. He also claims that J. R. R. Tolkien was a “key influence” for him growing up and he re-read The Lord of the Rings every year for a number of years. As of 2008, he was a physical education student at McGill University and, as of 2011 he was studying business at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, although still living in Montreal.
After five international top three finishes in 2007, he acquired an additional eight top three finishes in 2008 before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Included among these were first-place finishes in events at the Continental Olympic Qualifier and the National Team Trials in Montreal and the IFC World Cup in Duisburg and Poznań, Poland. The win in Poland solidified his winning of the 2008 overall World Cup Champion in the Canoe Discipline. He is the first Canadian to win this title. He then went on to win a bronze medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the Olympic Games in the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, finishing half a second ahead of Vadim Menkov of Uzbekistan with a time of 3:53.653, but behind Attila Vajda of Hungary and David Cal of Spain. He credited his victory to “a sea change in […] life” beginning in January, as well as a closer bond with his coach, Michael Creamer.
Thomas Hall Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Canoeist |
House | Living in own house. |
Thomas Hall is one of the richest Canoeist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Hall 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After joining the Pointe Claire Canoe Club, his first major international victory was the Junior World Championships in August 1999 in Zagreb, Croatia, where he placed first in the C-1 1000 m event. Earlier that month he had placed fifth in the C-1 20 km event at the Marathon Junior Cup in Hungary. Beginning in 2000 Hall began competing in an increasing amount of international tournaments. In June 2000, at the Bochum International Regatta in Bochum, Germany, he took second, third and fifth place in the junior C-2 1000 m, C-4 500 m and C-1 1000 m events respectively. In August of that year, he finished second in the junior C-1 1000 m event at the Pan American Sprint Canoe Championships in Lake Placid, New York.
After a third-place finish at the Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal, he earned seven additional top three finishes in 2004, including wins in the C-4 1000 m event at the World Cup in Račice, Czech Republic and the Junior C-1 500 m event at the Canadian Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. In 2005, he placed first in the C-1 500 m event and second in the C-1 1000 m national team selection trials in Montreal. At that year’s Canadian Championships, also held in Montreal, he placed second in the C-1 1000 m event. In 2006, he placed second and third in the C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m events respectively at the National Team Trials in Lake Lanier, Georgia. That year, at the ICF World Cup in Duisburg, Germany, he placed first in the C-1 4 × 200 m event and ended the year with a second-place finish in the C-4 1000 m event at the Senior World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Height | 6 ft 0 in |
Weight | 181 lbs |
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Thomas Ranked on the list of most popular Canoeist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Thomas Hall celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.