Sport: Canoeing Inducted: 1981 Country: Romania Born: July 22, 1934 in Bucharest, Romania
Leon Rottman
captured two gold medals in canoeing at the 1956 Melbourne
Olympic Games. He won the 1,000-Meter Canadian Singles Championship
with a time of 5:05.3 and the 10,000-Meter Canadian Singles
event in 56:41.0.
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Rottman won
a bronze medal in the 1,000-Meter Canadian Singles in 4:35.87.