István Szabó (canoer)
István Szabó (born June 15, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976.
Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979, K-2 10000 m: 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985, K-4 10000 m: 1974), and five bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1978, K-2 10000 m: 1982, K-4 1000 m: 1970, 1971, 1975).
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1948: Sweden (Lars Glasser, Lars Helsvik, Lennart Klingström & Gert Fredriksson · 1950: Sweden (Lars Glasser, Ingemar Hedberg, Lennart Klingström & Gert Fredriksson) · 1954: Sweden (Lars Glasser, Carl-Ake Ljung, Bert Nilsson & Gert Fredriksson) · 1958: West Germany (Paul Lange, Meinrad Miltenberger, Helmut Herz & Fritz Briel) · 1963: Romania (Aurel Vernescu, Vasilie Nicoarǎ, Haralambie Ivanov & Anton Ivanescu) · 1966: Soviet Union (Georgiy Karyuchin, Yuriy Kabanov, Villi Baltins & Dmitry Matveyev) · 1970: Soviet Union (Nikolay Gogol, Anatoliy Tischenko, Anatoliy Kobrisev & Anatoliy Sedasov) · 1971: Hungary (Géza Csapó, István Szabó, Csaba Giczi & Mihály Hesz) · 1973: Soviet Union (Vitaliy Trukshin, Anatoliy Kobrisev, Sergey Nikolskiy & Oleg Zhegoyev) · 1974: Romania (Vasile Dîba, Ernst Pavel, Atanase Sciotnic & Mihai Zafiu) · 1975: Hungary (Iván Herczeg, Jószef Svidró, Zoltán Sztanity & Peter Várhelyi)
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June 15, 1950 |
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