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Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	K-4 1000 m
World Championships
Gold	1985 Mechelen	K-2 1000 m
Gold	1987 Duisburg	K-2 10000 m
Gold	1990 Poznań	K-1 10000 m
Gold	1991 Paris	K-2 10000 m
Silver	1987 Duisburg	K-2 1000 m
Bronze	1990 Poznań	K-1 1000 m

Philippe Boccara (born July 6, 1959) is a French-born American sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. Competing in six Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Los Angeles in 1984 for France.

Boccara also won six medals for the French at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 10000 m: 1990, K-2 1000 m: 1985, K-2 10000 m: 1987, 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-1 1000 m: 1990).

He competed for the United States at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

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World champions in men's canoe sprint K-1 10000 m

1938: Karl Widmark (SWE) * 1938: (folding) Arne Bogren (SWE) * 1950: Thorvald Stromberg (FIN) * 1954: Ferenc Hatlaczky (HUN) * 1958: Thorvald Stromberg (FIN) * 1963: Fritz Briel (GER) * 1966: Mihály Hesz (HUN) * 1970: Viktor Carev (URS) * 1971: Viktor Carev (URS) * 1973: Aleksandr Shaparenko (URS) * 1974: Oreste Perri (ITA) * 1975: Oreste Perri (ITA) * 1977: Oreste Perri (ITA) * 1978: Milan Janić (YUG) * 1979: Milan Janić (YUG) * 1981: Einar Rasmussen (NOR) * 1982: Milan Janić (YUG) * 1983: Einar Rasmussen (NOR) * 1985: Greg Barton (USA) * 1986: Ferenc Csipes (HUN) * 1987: Greg Barton (USA) * 1989: Attila Szabó (TCH) * 1990: Philippe Boccara (FRA) * 1991: Greg Barton (USA) * 1993: Thor Nielsen (DEN)

World champions in men's canoe sprint K-2 1000 m

1938: Germany (Helmut Triebe & Hans Eberle) · 1950: Sweden (Lars Glasser & Ingemar Hedberg) · 1954: Hungary (István Mészáros & György Mészáros) · 1958: Belgium (Henri Verbrugghe & Germain van der Moere) · 1963: Romania (Vasilie Nicoarǎ & Haralambie Ivanov) · 1966: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko & Yuri Stetsenko) · 1970: Austria (Gerhard Seibold & Günther Pfaff) · 1971: East Germany (Reiner Kurth & Alexander Slatnow) · 1973: Hungary (József Deme & János Rátkai) · 1974: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) · 1975: East Germany (Alexander Slatnow & Gerhard Rummel) · 1977: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) · 1978: Soviet Union (Sergei Chukhray & Vladimir Trainikov) · 1979: Norway (Einar Rasmussen & Olaf Søyland) · 1981: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich & Sergey Superata) · 1982: Soviet Union (Vladimir Parfenovich & Sergey Superata) · 1983: East Germany (Frank Fischer & André Wohllebe) · 1985: France (Pascal Boucherit & Philippe Boccara) · 1986: Romania (Daniel Stoian & Angelin Velea) · 1987: New Zealand (Ian Ferguson & Paul MacDonald) · 1989: East Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1990: East Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1991: Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1993: Germany (Kay Bluhm & Torsten Gutsche) · 1994: Denmark (Jesper Staal & Thor Nielsen) · 1995: Italy (Antonio Rossi & Daniele Scarpa) · 1997: Italy (Antonio Rossi & Luca Negri) · 1998: Italy (Antonio Rossi & Luca Negri) · 1999: Slovakia (Michal Riszdorfer & Juraj Bača) · 2001: Norway (Eirik Verås Larsen & Nils Olav Fjeldheim) · 2002: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson & Henrik Nilsson) · 2003: Sweden (Markus Oscarsson & Henrik Nilsson) · 2005: Hungary (Roland Kökény & Gábor Kucsera) · 2006: Hungary (Gábor Kucsera & Zoltán Kammerer) · 2007: France (Philippe Colin & Cyrille Carré) · 2009: Spain (Emilio Merchan & Diego Cosgaya)

World champions in men's canoe sprint K-2 10000 m

1938: Sweden (Gunnar Johansson & Berndt Berndtsson) * 1938: (folding) Sweden (Carl-Gustav Hellstrandt & Erik Helsvik) * 1950: Sweden (Gunnar Åkerlund & Hans Wetterström) * 1954: Austria (Maximilian Raub & Herbert Wiedermann) * 1958: Hungary (János Urányi & László Fábián) * 1963: Hungary (László Fábián & István Timár) * 1966: Hungary (Imre Szöllősi & László Fábián) * 1970: Soviet Union (Konstantin Kostenko & Vyacheslav Kononov) * 1971: Soviet Union (Konstantin Kostenko & Vyacheslav Kononov) * 1973: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & Géza Csapó) * 1974: Romania (Antrop Varabiev & Ion Terente) * 1975: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) * 1977: Soviet Union (Petras Shurskas & Anatoliy Korolkov) * 1978: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) * 1979: Romania (Nicuşor Eşanu & Ion Bîrlădeanu) * 1981: Soviet Union (Nikolay Astapkovich & Vladimir Romanovsky) * 1982: France (Bernard Brégeon & Patrick Lefoulon) * 1983: Great Britain (Stephen Jackson & Alain Williams) * 1985: Sweden (Mikael Berger & Conny Edholm) * 1986: Hungary (Gábor Kulcsar & László Gindl) * 1987: France (Philippe Boccara & Pascal Boucherit) * 1989: Hungary (Attila Ábrahám & Sándor Hódosi) * 1990: Great Britain (Grayson Burne & Ivan Lawler) * 1991: France (Philippe Boccara & Pascal Boucherit) * 1993: Hungary (Zsolt Borhi & Attila Ábrahám)

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