Roland Kökény
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
Representing Hungary | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2012 London | K-2 1000 m | |
World Championships | ||
2005 Zagreb | K-2 1000 m | |
2006 Szeged | K-4 1000 m | |
2001 Poznań | K-4 1000 m | |
2003 Gainesville | K-4 1000 m | |
2013 Duisburg | K-2 1000 m | |
European Championships | ||
2012 Zagreb | K-2 1000 m | |
2011 Belgrade | K-2 1000 m |
Roland Kökény (born 24 October 1975) is a Hungarian sprint canoer 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
- Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Bronze Cross (2004)
- Hungarian kayaker of the Year (2): 2005, 2012
- Order of Merit of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2012)
- Honorary Citizen of Esztergom (2012)
- Perpetual champion of Hungarian Kayak-Canoe (2012)
- Member of the Hungarian team of year (Men's K-2 with Rudolf Dombi): 2012
- Honorary Citizen of Zugló (2012)
References
- ^ "London 2012 Men's K2 1000m". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
External links
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). 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)
- Roland Kökény at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1975 births
- Budapest Honvéd FC canoers
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian male canoeists
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Hungary
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian canoeist stubs