Mátyás Sáfrán (born January 23, 1986, in
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 ...
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is a
Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2007. He twice won the gold medal in the C-4 1000 m event at the European Championships, in 2009 and 2011.
He also won a bronze in the C-4 1000 m event at the
2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in
Duisburg
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At the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, Sáfrán was eliminated in the semifinals of the
C-2 500 m event.
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1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Székesfehérvár
Hungarian male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Hungary
Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
21st-century Hungarian people
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