FACTOIDS
Full Name: Natasa Janics
Nickname: Natasa
Birthday: June 24, 1982
Height: 6’0”
Hometown: Backa Palanka, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia
Sports: Canoeing
PROFILE
Natasa Janics is a Hungarian canoer with a Serbian background, who won two Olympic gold medals in the kayak flatwater events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She has also won twelve gold medals at the Flatwater Racing World Championships.
Natasa grew up in Yugoslavia (Serbia) and competed for Serbia and Montenegro, winning a number of gold medals, before moving to Hungary. She is a daughter of late Milan Janic, Serbian canoer who won a gold medal for Yugoslavia in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
