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Krisztián Veréb (26 July 1977 – 24 October 2020) was a Hungarian
canoe sprint 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 s ...
er who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the
2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
in Sydney. Veréb also won four medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). The World Cha ...
with two silvers (K-2 1000 m:
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...
, K-4 1000 m:
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) and two bronzes (K-2 1000 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 s ...
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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...
). Veréb died in a motorcycle accident in
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,
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
on 24 October 2020. He was 43.


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Sports-reference.com profile
1977 births 2020 deaths Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Hungarian male canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in canoeing Road incident deaths in the Dominican Republic Motorcycle road incident deaths 21st-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-Olympic-medalist-stub