András Rajna (born September 3, 1960) is a
Hungarian sprint canoer
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Overview
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who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three
Summer Olympics
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, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at
Atlanta
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in
1996
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Rajna also won three medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers (K-2 500 m:
1986
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Events January
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,
1994
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) and a bronze (K-4 500 m:
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
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).
References
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Sports-reference.com profile
1960 births
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Hungarian male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Hungary
Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
20th-century Hungarian people
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