Gusztáv Leikep (born August 19, 1966) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won three silver 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 a one in the C-4 500 m (

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

) and two in the C-4 1000 m (

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

, 1990). Leikep also finished seventh in the C-2 1000 m event at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

References

* *
Sports-reference.com profile
1966 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Hungarian male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Hungary ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-canoe-bio-stub