Géjza Valent (born 3 October 1953 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

) is a retired male

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

er from

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, who won the bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships. He set a personal best throw of 69.70 metres on 26 August 1984 at a meet in

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. Today, he continues to compete in veterans championships. His father, Géjza Valent, Sr., was also a discus thrower and was a medallist at the

1954 World Student Games The 1954 World Student Games were an athletics competition held in Budapest, Hungary by the Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE). It marked a one-off departure from the athletics event being linked to the biennial World Festival of Youth and St ...

.World Student Games (UIE)
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09.

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1953 births Living people Czech male discus throwers Czechoslovak male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Czechoslovakia Athletes from Prague World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Czechoslovakia Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games {{Slovakia-athletics-bio-stub