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{{For|the footballer|Jörg Schmidt (footballer)}}{{no footnotes|date=July 2012}}
{{MedalTableTop}}{{MedalSport|Men's canoe sprint}}{{MedalOlympic}}{{MedalSilver|1988 Seoul|C-1 1000 m}}{{MedalWorldChampionships}}{{MedalGold|1982 Belgrade|C-1 1000 m}}{{MedalBottom}}Jörg Schmidt (born 16 February 1961) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Schmidt also won a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1982 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade. He married Birgit Fischer, who would win 12 Summer Olympic medals in women's sprint canoeing between 1980 and 2004. Their marriage lasted from 1984 to 1993 and gave them a child in 1986. Schmidt's niece Fanny won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. References - DatabaseOlympics.com profile{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Singles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 491–2.
{{Footer World Champions Canoe Sprint C-1 1000 m Men}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Jorg}}{{Germany-canoe-Olympic-medalist-stub}} 10 : 1961 births|Living people|Sportspeople from Berlin|East German male canoeists|Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Olympic canoeists of East Germany|Olympic silver medalists for East Germany|Olympic medalists in canoeing|ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian|Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics |