Michael Kurt

Michael "Mike" Kurt (born 2 April 1980)[2] is a Swiss slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1996 to 2016.

He won a gold medal in the K1 team event at the 2003 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg.

He also won four medals at the European Championships (1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronzes).

At the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished seventeenth in the qualification round of the K1 event, failing to progress to the semifinals.

[1] He lives in Solothurn and is a co-founder and CEO of the crowdfunding platform www.ibelieveinyou.ch.