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Area athletes in the 1996 Summer Games
Dana
Chladek, Kensington, MD
Women's Slalom Kayak
Chladek, 32, was a bronze medalist at the 1992 Olympics in women's kayak but has
battled a shoulder injury since. She easily won both days of the U.S. trials on
the Ocoee River in Tennessee in May after finishing fifth overall in world
competition the past two years. She was born in Czechoslovakia, moved to the
United States at age 5 and graduated from Dartmouth in 1986 with a degree in
French literature. Parents Stan and Ema Chladek were on the Czechoslovakian
national team; husband Thierry Humeau won the bronze for France in men's slalom
canoe at the 1989 world championships.
Cathy
Hearn, Bethesda, MD
Women's Slalom Kayak
Hearn, 38, became the first U.S. woman world whitewater kayaking champion when
she took three gold medals at the 1979 world championships in Jonquiere, Quebec.
She was ninth at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and sixth at the 1995 worlds in
Nottingham, England. She is sister of current world whitewater men's canoeing
champion Davey Hearn. She holds a degree in athletic physiology and psychology
from Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.
Davey
Hearn, Bethesda, Md.
Men's Canoe
Hearn, 37, won the world whitewater slalom canoeing championships in 1985 and
1995 and is the current world champion. He was 11th at the 1992 Olympics in
Barcelona. He and longtime training partner, Jon Lugbill of Oakton, dominated
international competition from 1979 to '89; Lugbill was fourth at the '92 Games
but did not make the Olympic team this year. Hearn graduated from the University
of Massachusetts in 1982 with a geology degree; sister Cathy is an Olympic
kayaker and wife Jennifer is a member of the U.S. national kayak team.
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