Kinga Dekany is a Hungarian

sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water. Overview Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...

who has competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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; K-4 1000 m: 2001,

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), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m:

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, 1998), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1998, 2001).

Awards

* Hungarian kayaker of the Year (1): 1998

References

* * Hungarian female canoeists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak {{Hungary-canoe-bio-stub