Erika Mészáros

Erika Mészáros

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	K-4 500 m
	1988 Seoul	K-4 500 m
World Championships
	1986 Montreal	K-2 500 m
	1986 Montreal	K-4 500 m
	1989 Plovdiv	K-2 500 m
	1989 Plovdiv	K-4 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-2 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-2 5000 m
	1990 Poznań	K-4 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-2 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-4 500 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-2 5000 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-4 500 m

Erika Mészáros (born 24 June 1966 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won two medals in the K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.

Mészáros also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-4 500 m: both 1986), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993; K-4 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1993).

Her father, György, won two Olympic canoeing silver medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, earning them in the K-1 4 x 500 m relay and K-2 1000 m events.

Awards

• Hungarian kayaker of the Year (4): 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992
• Work Order of Merit of Hungarian People's Republic – Silver Cross (1988)
• Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Small Cross (1992)
• Member of the Hungarian team of year (with Rita Kőbán, Éva Dónusz, Kinga Czigány): 1992

References

• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: 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)
• Sports-reference.com profile
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Fours 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press. p. 495.