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Ferenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in
Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Golden Cross (1992)
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Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Small Cross (1996)
* Hungarian Coach of the Year (1) - votes of sports journalists: 2011
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Order of Merit of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2012)
* Papp László Budapest Sport awards (2012)
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Order of Merit of Hungary – Commander's Cross (2016)
Budapest
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) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics
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, he won four medals with one gold (1988
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: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992
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, 1996
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: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m).
Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985
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, K-1 10000 m: 1986
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, K-2 500 m: 1987
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, K-4 1000 m: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
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, 1991
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), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1986, 1987, 1991; K-4 10000 m: 1989), and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1990, 1994
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; K-2 10000 m: 1987).
Awards
* Hungarian kayaker of the Year (4): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991 * Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic – Order of Stars (1988) * Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Golden Cross (1992)
* Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Small Cross (1996)
* Hungarian Coach of the Year (1) - votes of sports journalists: 2011
* Order of Merit of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2012)
* Papp László Budapest Sport awards (2012)
* Order of Merit of Hungary – Commander's Cross (2016)
References
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* * 1965 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 gold medalists for Hungary Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Canoeists from Budapest Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-Olympic-medalist-stub