Viktor Horváth (born 26 February 1978,
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...
) is a
modern pentathlete
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from
Hungary
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. He competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, where he finished nineteenth in the
men's event, with a score of 5,272 points.
Horváth also won individual gold medals at the 2007 European Senior Championships in
Riga, Latvia, and at the
2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships The 2007 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Berlin, Germany from August 18 to August 21.
Medal summary Men's events
Women's events
See also
*Modern Pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics
*World Modern Pentathlon Championship
...
in
Berlin, Germany
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.
References
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1978 births
Living people
Hungarian male modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes for Hungary
Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics
World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Székesfehérvár
20th-century Hungarian people
21st-century Hungarian people
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