Katalin Kovács

Katalin Kovács
nation	Hungary
birthday	February 29, 1976
place of birth	Budapest ,  Hungary
size	173 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Kayak (K1, K2, K4)
society	Bp. Spartacus, MTK
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 5 × 0 × World Cup medals 30 × 7 × 3 ×
Olympic games silver 2000 Sydney Two kayaks 500 m silver 2000 Sydney Kayak foursome 500 m gold 2004 Athens Two kayaks 500 m silver 2004 Athens Kayak foursome 500 m gold 2008 Beijing Two kayaks 500 m silver 2008 Beijing Kayak foursome 500 m silver 2012 London Two kayaks 500 m gold 2012 London Kayak foursome 500 m

Katalin Kovács (born February 29, 1976 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian canoeist . She was a multiple world champion and two-time Olympic champion in kayaks .

Career

Katalin Kovács celebrated her first international success with second place at the 1997 Canoe World Championships in a four-person kayak over 500 meters. The following year, she won her first world championship title in the non-Olympic sprint distance in a four-person kayak over 200 meters. She won her first individual titles in 2002 over 500 and 1000 meters, after winning bronze medals in the K1 over 1000 meters in 1999 and in 2001 in the same boat over 500 meters. In the two-person kayak she was successful with her partners Szilvia Szabó and later Natasa Janics and Danuta Kozák , she won three gold medals in 2005 over 200, 500 and 1000 meters. In 2006, she managed this triple again in two and for the first time in four.

Kovács was also successful at the Olympic Games, with five silver medals from Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London being crowned with Olympic victories in 2004 and 2008 in two-person kayaks over 500 meters and 2012 in four-person kayaks.

Kovács achieved 30 titles in canoeing world championships (as of December 2013). Along with the German Birgit Fischer , who won 27 World Cup titles, she is one of the most successful female canoeists in World Cup history.

Others

Her hometown club is Bp. Spartacus, MTK . With a height of 1.73 meters, she has a competition weight of 64 kg.

International success

Olympic games

2000 in Sydney

• Silver medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2004 in Athens

• Gold medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2008 in Beijing

• Gold medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2012 in London

• Silver medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m

World championships in canoe racing

1997

• Silver medal, four-person kayak 500 m

1998

• Gold medal, four-person kayak 200 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 500 m

1999

• Gold medal, four-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m
• Bronze medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Bronze medal, single kayak 1000 m

2001

• Gold medal, four-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m
• Bronze medal, single kayak 500 m

2002

• Gold medal, single kayak 1000 m
• Gold medal, single kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2003

• Gold medal, single kayak 1000 m
• Gold medal, single kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2005

• Gold medal, two-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, two-person kayak 1000 m

2006

• Gold medal, two-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, two-person kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, two-person kayak 1000 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 1000 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 200 m

2007

• Gold medal, single kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, single kayak 1000 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 200 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2009

• Gold medal, single kayak 500 m
• Gold medal, single kayak 1000 m
• Gold medal, two-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m
• Silver medal, four-person kayak 200 m

2010

• Gold medal, two-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m
• Silver medal, single kayak 1000 m

2011

• Gold medal, two-person kayak 200 m
• Gold medal, four-person kayak 500 m

2013

• Silver medal, two-person kayak 500 m

Web links

• Katalin Kovács in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography of Katalin Kovács ( Memento of April 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Hungarian)