Attila Szabó (Slovak canoeist)

Czechoslovak kayaker and speed canoeist
Attila Szabó
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1989 Plovdiv K-1 10000 m
Silver medal – second place 1987 Duisburg K-1 10000 m
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Duisburg K-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Copenhagen K-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 (ed.). 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 the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
  • 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; et al. "Attila Szabó". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
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