Péter Galambos

Péter Galambos at the 2013 World Championships award ceremony

Péter Galambos (* 9. September 1986 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian lightweight - rowers , the 2019 European champion in the lightweight one was.

Athletic career

Péter Galambos began rowing in 2000. In 2005 he and Tamás C. Varga (* 1986) took 14th place in the lightweight double sculls at the U23 World Championships , in 2006 the two achieved sixth place and in 2007 they won the silver medal behind the French. At the 2007 World Championships in Munich Galambos joined in the lightweight quadruple sculls and finished in eighth and last place. In 2008 Varga and Galambos won silver again in the lightweight double sculls at the U23 World Championships, this time behind the Italians.

In 2010 Galambos switched to the lightweight single and won the regattas in Munich and Lucerne in the World Cup . At the 2010 World Championships in New Zealand, he won the bronze medal behind the Italian Marcello Miani and the Slovak Lukáš Babač . In 2011 Galambos competed with Tamás Varga (* 1978) in the lightweight double scull and took 13th place at the World Championships in Bled . With that, the two had made the Olympic qualification for 2012, but Varga competed with Zsolt Hirling at the Olympic Games in London . Galambos returned to the single in 2012, at the 2012 World Championships in Plovdiv he won the silver medal behind the Dane Henrik Stephansen . A year later at the World Championships in Chungju , Stephansen won ahead of Frenchman Jérémie Azou , and Galambos received the bronze medal. From 2014 Galambos tried again in the lightweight double scull in order to still achieve an Olympic qualification in this Olympic boat class, but it did not succeed. It wasn't until the World Championships in Rotterdam in 2016 that Péter Galambos competed again in the lightweight single and won silver behind the Irishman Paul O'Donovan .

In 2017 Galambos won the silver medal behind the Swiss Michael Schmid at the European Championships in Račice u Štětí . In 2018 he finished sixth at both the European and World Championships . In 2019 he won his first international title at the European Championships in Lucerne . At the World Championships in Linz-Ottensheim he won silver behind the Italian Martino Goretti .

Web links

• Péter Galambos at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )