Ferenc Novák
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2000 Sydney | C-2 500 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1993 Copenhagen | C-4 500 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
1994 Mexico City | C-4 500 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
2003 Gainesville | C-4 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
1994 Mexico City | C-2 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
1995 Duisburg | C-4 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
1999 Milan | C-2 500 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
2003 Gainesville | C-4 500 m |
Ferenc Novák (born July 13, 1969 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed from the early 1990s to 2006. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he won a gold medal in the C-2 500 m event with teammate Imre Pulai.
In the four-man (C-4) canoe he has won a total of three world championship gold medals (1993, 1994 and 2003), as well as two European golds (2002 and 2004). Novák won a total of six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.
His last success came at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, where he won a C-4 500 m bronze medal.
Novak is currently a member of the Budapest Honvéd FC club.
Height: 173 cm (5'8"); weight 77 kg (169 lbs)
Awards
- Perpetual champion of Hungarian Kayak-Canoe
- Orders and special awards
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2000)
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Kataca.hu profile at the Wayback Machine (archived March 28, 2013) (in Hungarian)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ferenc Novák". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.
External links
- Ferenc Novak at Olympics.com
- Ferenc Novák at Olympedia
- Novák Ferenc at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)
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- 1976: Serhei Petrenko & Aleksandr Vinogradov (URS)
- 1980: László Foltán & István Vaskuti (HUN)
- 1984: Matija Ljubek & Mirko Nišović (YUG)
- 1988: Viktor Reneysky & Nicolae Juravschi (URS)
- 1992: Dmitri Dovgalenok & Aleksandr Maseikov (EUN)
- 1996: György Kolonics & Csaba Horváth (HUN)
- 2000: Ferenc Novák & Imre Pulai (HUN)
- 2004: Meng Guanliang & Yang Wenjun (CHN)
- 2008: Meng Guanliang & Yang Wenjun (CHN)
- 2012–2020: Not included in the Olympics
- 2024: Liu Hao & Ji Bowen (CHN)
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