Valent Sinković

Valent Sinković
Sinković in 2012
Personal information
NationalityCroatian
Born (1988-08-02) 2 August 1988
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight92 kg (203 lb)
Sport
CountryCroatia
SportRowing
Event(s)
Coxless pair, Double sculls, Quadruple sculls
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Croatia
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Double sculls
2020 Tokyo Coxless pair
2024 Paris Coxless pair
2012 London Quadruple sculls
World Championships
2010 Cambridge Quadruple sculls
2013 Chungjiu Quadruple sculls
2014 Amsterdam Double sculls
2015 Aiguebelette-le-Lac Double sculls
2018 Plovdiv Coxless pair
2019 Ottensheim Coxless pair
2017 Sarasota Coxless pair
2023 Belgrade Double sculls
2011 Bled Quadruple sculls
European Championships
2012 Varese Double sculls
2016
Brandenburg an der Havel
Double sculls
2018 Glasgow Coxless pair
2019 Lucerne Coxless pair
2021 Varese Coxless pair
2022 Oberschleißheim Double sculls
2023 Bled Double sculls
2010 Montemor-o-Velho Quadruple sculls
2020 Poznań Coxless pair
2025 Plovdiv Coxless four
World U23 Championships
2009 Račice Quadruple sculls
2010 Brest Quadruple sculls
2008
Brandenburg an der Havel
Double sculls
World Junior Championships
2006 Amsterdam Double sculls

Valent Sinković (born 2 August 1988) is a Croatian rower. He is the older brother of fellow rower Martin Sinković, with whom he has won three Olympic gold medals. The brothers are the most decorated Croatian Summer Olympians in history and won the gold medal in the double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the coxless pair at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the coxless pair at the 2024 Summer Olympics, and the silver medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics together with David Šain and Damir Martin. Sinković is a six-time world champion, twice in quadruple sculls, double sculls and coxless pair each, and seven-time European champion, with four titles in double sculls and three titles in coxless pair. He is also a two-time U23 world champion in quadruple sculls with his brother, Šain and Martin.

The Sinković brothers have been racing together internationally since 2008 and holds the world best time in double sculls, set at the 2014 World Rowing Championships where they were the first men's team to go under 6 minutes for their race time.