Max HOFF (GER)

Wassermasse

My hometown is Essen where also my home club is located at the Baldeneysee, close to the regatta course in Duisburg. Mainly im training there, in the winter time a lot in the USA and Spain. In the Summertime we stay a lot in Kienbaum (close to Berlin), Munich and Duisburg with the national team.

Professional athlete and working a little bit at DB Schenker 

I finished my master degree in molecular biology at the university in Cologne in 2010. In the moment doing my MBA and hopefully ready after the season 2018.

I started downriver kayaking in 1994 at the little club STV Siegburg close to Cologne. My godmother asked me if I want to join into a new group of kids learning kayaking. And there I was caught from the sport...

He likes the fact that the sport is in nature and that he is always in contact with the water.

Skiing, water sports, cycling

Kanusport-Gemeinschaft Essen [KGE]: Germany

Robert Berger and Stephan Stiefenhv?fer; National Team coaches are Arndt Hanisch and Stefan Ulm

Downriver 2001 world cup Lofer, Sprint racing 2007 Worldcup Gerardmer 

Downriver 2001 world cup Lofer, Sprint racing 2007 Worldcup Gerardmer 

Stephan Stiefenhv?fer. Friend and coach. He took me after the death of my mom when I was 20, coached me to the top of wildcatter racing and pushed me to make the step to flatwater racing in 2007. There he always gave me his experience and his right feeling what I had to do in the special moments.

a little bit stupid... but on my personal start number at a regatta is the place written I can reach

"Anyone who sets a serious goal will achieve it." (maxhoff.de, 12 Apr 2016)

If you set a real goal to yourself and you are doing because you love it, you do whatever is possible and have no excuses for nothing you can and will make it. 

Puh, there are a lot! Fish river South Africa, Fvºhlinger See in cologne (my original home regatta course until 2017), Newport beach California for training, and for sure a lot of rivers in the Alps. Best crowd in a competition we had 2012 in London. Always special is Szeged and for us germans Duisburg.

A good pasta and a nice fillet

House and indy rock

Winning medals at the competitions doing what I love. Es well watching on Tokyo with a big last chance.

He was voted Best German Athlete of the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. (sport1.de, 01 Jul 2015)He was named Male Athlete of the Year in 2008, 2009 and 2014 in Cologne, Germany. (kanu-nrw.de, 11 Mar 2015)He was voted the 2011 Champion of the Year in Germany. (tui-deutschland.de, 07 Nov 2011)

NATIONAL FIRST He became the first German athlete from any sport to win an individual gold medal at European Games after claiming victory in the K1 1000m at the 2015 Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. "It's pretty cool, and nicer than winning at the European championships. The true value of this medal will be known later." (derwesten.de, 17 Jun 2015) SWITCH After starting out his career in wildwater canoeing, where athletes compete in races on rivers, he made the switch to flatwater ahead of the 2007 season. He made the decision as there was a lack of depth in Germany in the K1 1000m event. One of the initial challenges he faced was that he had to change his stroke technique to increase his power and reduce his stroke rate. (canoeicf.com, 10 Jan 2011) FURTHER EDUCATION In 2011 he began a post-graduate degree in business administration at the AKAD College in Leipzig, Germany. (maxhoff.de, 12 Apr 2016)

He was world champion in wildwater canoeing in 2006. He has also competed in canoe marathon. (canoeicf.com, 10 Jan 2011)

interested in everything, but being with skies in the snow in winter is great.