David Florence

David Florence is a retired British slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2021. He is the 2013 and 2015 world champion in individual single canoe (C1) and 2013 champion in double canoe (C2), the latter with Richard Hounslow. Florence was the first canoeist since Charles Dussuet, sixty years earlier, to achieve the C1, C2 double at the same World Championships.

8 August 1982

Born on the same birth date (8 August 1982): Ross Ohlendorf

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Axel Merckx • Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore • Chris Pressley • Craig Breslow • Danilo Gallinari • George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland • George Stoneman • Jack Cassel • Jon Turteltaub • Josip Drmić • Yvie Burnett

Born in the same month (August 1982): Alexei Mikhnov • Jason Eaton • Josh Anderson (baseball) • José Bosingwa • Lien Huyghebaert • Montserrat Lombard • Yakhouba Diawara