Arpad Simonyik (born February 23, 1940, in
Bečej
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) is a
Canadian
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sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the
K-1 1000 m event at the
1964 Summer Olympics
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in
Tokyo
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.
Four years later in
Mexico City
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, Simonyik was eliminated in the heats of the
K-2 1000 m event and the semifinals of the
K-4 1000 m event.
References
Sports-reference.com profile
1940 births
Canadian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Canada
People from Bečej
Sportspeople from South Bačka District
Yugoslav emigrants to Canada
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