Zoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian

sprint canoeist 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 som ...

who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five

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, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m:

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, K-4 1000 m: 2000,

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the

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with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m:

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, K-4 1000 m:

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), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009, K-2 1000 m:

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, K-4 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 ...

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), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2002, 2006,

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; K-2 1000 m: 2007, K-4 500 m: 1999). A member of the

Győr Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of t ...

club, he is 182 cm (6'0) tall and weighs 86 kg (190 lbs). At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Kammerer carried the Hungarian flag at the opening ceremonies. This was initially planned to be given to his fellow canoeist

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 ...

who had died a month before the Games. In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croa ...

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 ...

, more specifically, Men's K-2 1000m with Tamas Szalai and K-4 1000m with Dávid Tóth,

Tamás Kulifai Tamás Kulifai (born 4 May 1989) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist. He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 1000 m event, with Zoltan Kammerer, David Toth and Daniel Pauman. In June 2015, he competed for Hungary at the i ...

, and Dániel Pauman. He earned gold medals in both areas.

Awards

* Masterly youth athlete: 1995 * Hungarian kayaker of the Year (3): 2000, 2006, 2010 * Honorary Citizen of Göd (2003) * Honorary Citizen of

(2004) ;Orders and special awards * HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 4class BAR

Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2000) * HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 3class BAR

Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Commander's Cross (2004) * HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 2class BAR

Order of Merit of Hungary – Commander's Cross with Star (2012)

References

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External links

Canoe09.ca profile

Kataca.hu profile

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