Mattis Næss

Mattis Næss

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
	2005 Zagreb	K-2 1000 m

Mattis Næss (born 18 May 1973) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade).

Biography

He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Zagreb.

Næss also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fifth in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.

As of 2011, Mattis Næss is a teacher in science and mathematics. He teaches the subjects R1, T, science and P.

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Strømnes, André (9 April 2008). "Næss vant OL-duellen mot Norenberg". Budstikka (in Norwegian).
• Sports-reference.com profile