György Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.[1][2]
![]() Men's K-2 1000 metres medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics. 1st: Sweden with Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius. 2nd: Hungary with András Szente and György Mészáros. 3rd: Poland with Stefan Kapłaniak and Władysław Zieliński. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1933-04-30)April 30, 1933 Budapest, Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | September 14, 2015(2015-09-14) (aged 82) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958, K-4 10000 m: 1971), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1954).
His daughter Erika won two Olympic canoeing medals of her own in the women's K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.
World Champions in Men's Canoe Sprint K-2 1000 m | |
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