Attila Szabó (Slovak canoeist)

Attila Szabó
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
1989 PlovdivK-1 10000 m
1987 DuisburgK-1 10000 m
1987 DuisburgK-1 500 m
1993 CopenhagenK-1 10000 m

Attila Szabó (born 19 February 1966 in Komárno) is a Czechoslovak-Slovak sprint canoeist of Hungarian ethnicity[1] who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 10000 m: 1989), a silver (K-1 10000 m: 1987), and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-1 10000 m: 1993).

Szabó also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Nagy, Myrtil (2012). "Maďari". In Myrtil Nagy. Naše národnostné menšiny. Šamorín: Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín. p. 9. ISBN 978-80-89249-57-2.

References

  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Attila Szabó". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.


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