Shandor Hodoshi ( Hung. Hódosi Sándor ; April 28, 1966 , Budapest ) - Hungarian rower-kayaker , played for the Hungarian national team in the late 1980s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, two-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Hungary |
| Specialization | kayak , 1000 m |
| Club | Budapest Honved |
| Date of Birth | April 28, 1966 (53 years) |
| Place of Birth | Budapest , Hungary |
| Growth | 188 cm |
| Weight | 84 kg |
Biography
Sandor Hodoshi was born on April 28, 1966 in Budapest . He began to actively engage in canoeing in early childhood, was trained in the Budapest sports club "Honved". At the junior competitions for the first time he declared himself in 1983, when he won bronze at four hundred meters away at the European Youth Championship in the Czech city of Bydgoszcz.
He achieved the first serious success at the international level in 1987 when he joined the main team of the Hungarian national team and visited the World Championships in German Duisburg, from where he brought a bronze medal award won in the canoe-twos competition at a ten-kilometer distance. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - in the program of four-seater kayaks at a distance of 1000 meters, together with partners Zholt Dyulai , Ferenc Chipesch and Attila Abraham defeated all rivals and thus won the Olympic gold medal.
After the Seoul Olympics, Hodoshi remained in the main line-up for Hungary for several years and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1989, he performed at the World Championship in Bulgarian Plovdiv, where he became a champion in two disciplines at once, in twos, at ten kilometers and in fours at one kilometer. He tried to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, but because of the injury he was unable to do so, and soon decided to end his career as a professional athlete.
Links
- Shandor Hodoshi - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (Eng.)
- Shandor Hodoshi - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of champions and prize-winners in rowing and canoeing (1936–2007) (English)