Ferenc Novák

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.

Ferenc Novák
Medal record
Men’s canoe sprint
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyC-2 500 m
World Championships
1993 CopenhagenC-4 500 m
1994 Mexico CityC-4 500 m
2003 GainesvilleC-4 1000 m
1994 Mexico CityC-2 1000 m
1995 DuisburgC-4 1000 m
1999 MilanC-2 500 m
2003 GainesvilleC-4 500 m

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

References

  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
  • 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 2013-03-28) (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.


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