István Vaskuti
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| Men's canoe sprint | ||
Representing  Hungary
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1980 Moscow | C-2 500 m |
| World Championships | ||
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1977 Sofia | C-2 500 m |
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1978 Belgrade | C-2 500 m |
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1981 Nottingham | C-2 500 m |
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1985 Mechelen | C-2 500 m |
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1986 Montreal | C-2 500 m |
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1986 Montreal | C-2 1000 m |
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1982 Belgrade | C-2 500 m |
István Vaskuti (born December 4, 1955, in Debrecen) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the C-2 500 m event in Moscow in 1980.
Vaskuti also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (C-2 500 m: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1986; C-2 1000 m: 1986) and one bronze (C-2 500 m: 1982). After his career as active competitor, he started to work as a canoe-coach and succeeded also on this side of the sport and won several world and Olympic titles as coach of different famous canoeists.
He is now a sports administrator, chairman of the International Canoe Federation Flatwater Committee. He was Chief Official at the 2006 World Championships, held in the Hungarian city of Szeged. In 2008, Vaskúti was elected First Vice President of the ICF at their Congress in Rome.
References
[edit]- ICF 2008 ICF Congress report in Rome, including Vaskuti's appointment. - accessed November 30, 2008.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: 13 January 2016.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "István Vaskuti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
External links
[edit]- István Vaskuti at Olympedia
- István Vaskuti at Olympics.com
- István Vaskuti at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)
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