abstract:Paul Lange (born 6 February 1931 in Oberhausen) is a West German-German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 × 500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome (with Dieter Krause, Günther Perleberg and Friedhelm Wentzke).