Frantisek Capek, who won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics in flatwater canoeing, died Thursday of an unspecified heart problem. He was 93. Capek died in a sanatorium, said Jan Linger, the head of the Czech Foundation Sports Representation, which takes care of elderly athletes. Competing for Czechoslovakia, Capek won the 10,000-meter event at the London Olympics and also earned a silver at the same distance at the 1954 world championships in France. Capek and his late wife had three children, Linger said. The funeral was planned for Feb. 11 in Prague.
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