Attila Szabó (born 19 February 1966 in
Komárno
Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. ...
) is a
Czechoslovak
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Slovak sprint canoeist of
Hungarian ethnicity
who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won four medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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with a gold (K-1 10000 m:
1989
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), a silver (K-1 10000 m:
1987
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), and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-1 10000 m:
1993
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).
Szabó also competed in three
Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the
K-4 1000 m event at
Barcelona
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in
1992.
Footnotes
References
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1966 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Komárno
Hungarians in Slovakia
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Czechoslovak male canoeists
Olympic canoeists of Czechoslovakia
Olympic canoeists of Slovakia
Slovak male canoeists
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
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