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Hungarian canoeist (born 1975)
Roland Kökény (born 24 October 1975) is a Hungarian
canoe sprinter who competed from the early 2000s in European and World Championships as well as the
Olympic Games . A member of the Esztergom Kayak-Canoe club, he is 185 centimetres (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighs 82 kilograms (181 lb; 12.9 st).
Biography
Born in
Miskolc , Kökény won four medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m:
2005 , K-4 1000 m:
2006 ) and two silvers (K-4 1000 m:
2001 ,
2003 ).
Kökény also competed in three
Summer Olympics , at the
London Olympics of 2012 , he won the gold medal together with
Rudolf Dombi for his
country in the
Kayak Double (K2) 1000m .
[1] At the
2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he came sixth in the
K-1 1000 m event.
Awards
References
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:
BCU.org.uk .
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:
BCU.org.uk .
Kamber, Raymond , ed. (2008).
"Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF) . CanoeICF.com .
International Canoe Federation . pp. 1–83.
Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;
Mallon, Bill ; et al.
"Roland Kökény" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com .
Sports Reference LLC . Archived from
the original on 3 December 2016.
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