Katalin Kovács

Katalin Kovács (born 29 February 1976 Budapest) is a Hungarian canoeist. She had multiple world champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist in kayak.

  • 3.2.1 1997
  • 3.2.2 1998
  • 3.2.3 1999
  • 3.2.4 2001
  • 3.2.5 2002
  • 3.2.6 2003
  • 3.2.7 2005
  • 3.2.8 2006
  • 3.2.9 2007
  • 3.2.10 2009

Career

Your first international success came Katalin Kovács with second place at the Canoe World Championships 1997 in quad kayak over 500 meters. The following year she won the 200m her first world championship title in the non-Olympic sprint distance in the four-man kayak. The first single title they won in 2002 and 1000 about 500 meters after they had already won in 1999 K1 1000 meters and 2001 in the same boat about 500 meters bronze medals. In the double kayak she was with their partners Szilvia Szabó and later Natasa Janics and Danuta Kozák successful, she won three gold medals in 2005 on 200, 500 and 1000 meters. In 2006, she made this triple again in two, and for the first time in four.

Also at the Olympic Games Kovács was successful, four silver medals from Sydney, Athens and Beijing will be crowned by the Olympic victories in 2004 and 2008 in the double kayak over 500 meters.

In Canoe World Championships Kovács scored 31 titles (as of December 2011). It is thus one beside the German Birgit Fischer, who was able to win 27 world titles, the most successful canoeists in World Cup history.

Others

My home club is Bp Spartacus, MTK. At a size of 1.73 meters she has a competition weight of 64 kg.

International success

Olympic games

Sydney 2000

  • Silver Medal, double kayak 500 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 500 m

Athens 2004

  • Gold Medal, double kayak 500 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 500 m

Beijing 2008

  • Gold Medal, double kayak 500 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 500 m

London 2012

  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m

World Championships Canoe Racing

1997

  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 500 m

1998

  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 200 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 500 m

1999

  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 200 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m
  • Bronze double kayak 500 m
  • Bronze One - kayak 1000 m

2001

  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 200 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m
  • Bronze One - kayak 500 m

2002

  • Gold Medal, One Kayak 1000 m
  • Gold Medal, One - kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m

2003

  • Gold Medal, One Kayak 1000 m
  • Gold Medal, One - kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 200 m

2005

  • Gold Medal, double kayak 200 m
  • Gold Medal, double kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, double kayak 1000 m

2006

  • Gold Medal, double kayak 200 m
  • Gold Medal, double kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, double kayak 1000 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, four kayak 1000 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 200 m

2007

  • Gold Medal, One - kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, One Kayak 1000 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 200 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 500 m

2009

  • Gold Medal, One - kayak 500 m
  • Gold Medal, One Kayak 1000 m
  • Gold Medal, double kayak 200 m
  • Gold Medal, four - kayak 500 m
  • Silver Medal, four - kayak 200 m
Summer Olympic Games 2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Antonina Seredina Roswitha Esser Annemarie Zimmermann Martina Bischof Agneta Andersson Franziska Weber Tina Dietze
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