Csaba Horváth (born 4 April 1971 in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

) is a Hungarian

sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

who competed in the 1990s. At the

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, he won two medals with teammate

György Kolonics György "Kolo" Kolonics (4 June 1972 – 15 July 2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two gold and two bronze medals at four Summer Olympics. He also won a record fifteen gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He die ...

. This included a gold in the C-2 500 m and a bronze in the C-2 1000 m events. Horváth has also won nineteen medals at the

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ...

, with 13 gold (C-2 200 m:

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

, C-2 500 m:

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

, 1995,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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 Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

; C-2 1000 m: 1995, C-4 200 m: 1995, C-4 500 m: 1995, 1997, 1998; C-4 1000 m: 1993,

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

, 1998), five silvers (C-2 200 m: 1994, C-2 500 m: 1994, C-2 1000 m: 1997, C-4 200 m: 1994, 1997), and one bronze (C-4 1000 m:

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Awards

* Member of the Hungarian team of year (with

): 1995, 1996 * Hungarian canoer of the Year (3): 1995, 1996, 1998 * Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Officer's Cross (1996)

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* * 1971 births Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Hungarian male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Hungary Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canoeists from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-Olympic-medalist-stub