György MESZAROS

György Mészáros was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Mészáros won two silver medals in 1960 at Roma in the kayak relay and the K-2 1,000 metres. He also won five medals at the World Championships, highlighted by a gold in the K-2 1,000 metres in 1954, adding three silvers in the 1958 kayak relay and K-4, and the 1971 K-4 10K. He added won a World bronze in the K-4 10K in 1954. His daughter Erika Mészáros became a world class kayaker, winning Olympic gold in the 1992 K-4 event and silver in the same event in 1988.