Ken Wallace

Who is Ken Wallace?

Kenneth "Ken" Wallace is an Australian sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-2000s.

Wallace originally competed in Ironman events and only switched to sprint racing at the age of sixteen. Two years later he was K-1 1000 m junior world champion in Curitiba, Brazil.

In 2006, with Australian number one Nathan Baggaley serving a drugs ban, Wallace was selected to represent Australia at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary, where he placed fifth in the K-1 1000 m final.

In 2007, Wallace at the ICF World Championships held in Duisburg, Germany placed 4th in the K-1 1000m Final. This result qualified Australia a birth at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Wallace won two medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with gold in the K-1 500 m and bronze in the K-1 1000 m events. He also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold and a bronze.

In February 2011, Wallace competed in the third season of the Channel Seven television series Australia's Greatest Athlete.

Wallace is 188 cm tall and weighs 89 kg.