György Kozmann

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Olympic medal record
Men's canoeing
Bronze	2004 Athens	C-2 1000m

György Kozmann (born March 23, 1978 in Szekszárd) is a Hungarian flatwater canoer. At the 2004 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the C2 Canadian canoe 1000m final with teammate György Kolonics.

He has also won two world championship gold medals. His first title came in 2001 in the four-man C4 1000m in Poznań, Poland. Two years later, in Gainesville, USA, Kozmann was a member of the Hungary C4 200m crew which crossed the line second but were later awarded the gold medal after Russia's Sergey Ulegin failed a drugs test. Since 2003 he has been the C2 partner of György Kolonics winning gold medal in 2006 on 1000m.

In the European championships Kozmann has been a gold medallist four times - C4 500m (2002), C4 1000m (2000 and 2002) and C2 500m (2004).

Kozmann is a member of the Atomerőmű SE club and is coached by Attila Szabó. He is 179 cm (5'10") tall and weighs 83 kg (182 lbs).

[edit] World Championships

2007 Flatwater Racing World Championships

• gold medal, C2, 500m

2006 Flatwater Racing World Championships

• gold medal, C2, 1000m
• bronze medal, C2, 500m

2005 Flatwater Racing World Championships

• silver medal, C2, 500m
• bronze medal, C2, 1000m

2003 Flatwater Racing World Championships

• gold medal, C4 200m †
• bronze medal, C2 1000m

2001 Flatwater Racing World Championships

• gold medal, C4 1000m
• silver medal, C4 500m

1999 Flatwater Racing World Championships

• bronze medal, C4 1000m

†(Finished second but awarded gold medal after a member of the Russian crew tested positive)