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Adam Joseph van Koeverden(born January 29, ) is a Canadian sprint kayaker. He was born in Oakville, Ontario to a Dutch father and a Hungarian mother.

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His home club is the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

When year-old Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ontario, stepped into a canoe on Sixteen-Mile Creek and started paddling, he didn't realize that he was starting a journey that would culminate nine years later in a gold medal at the Athens Summer Olympic Games.

The Grade 7 student was simply looking for something to do, and he joined the Burloak Canoe Club after his mother, Beata Bokrossy, spotted the club's ad in the community newspaper and encouraged her son to give the sport a try.

For Bokrossy, canoeing was an activity to keep her teenage son busy and out of trouble.

"I didn't think team sports was so much of an attraction for him," she told Jon Kuiperij of the Oakville Beaver. "If anything went wrong, he'd always blame hims