György Mészáros
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The native form of this personal name is Mészáros György. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
György Mészáros (30 April 1933 – 14 September 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.[1][2]
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Born | (1933-04-30)30 April 1933 Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 September 2015(2015-09-14) (aged 82) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958, K-4 10000 m: 1971), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1954).
His daughter Erika won two Olympic canoeing medals of her own in the women's K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.