Laslo Fidel ( Hungarian. László Fidel ; 29 June 1965 , Vác ) - Hungarian rower-kayaker , played for the Hungarian national team in the mid-1980s - early 1990s. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, five-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Hungary |
| Specialization | kayak , 1000 m |
| Date of Birth | June 29, 1965 (54 years) |
| Place of Birth | Vác , Hungary |
| Growth | 187 cm |
| Weight | 85 kg |
Biography
Laszlo Fidel was born on June 29, 1965 in the city of Vac , the Mede Pest . He began to actively engage in canoeing in early childhood, was trained in the sports club Székesfehérvari KÖFÉM Sportegyesület.
He achieved his first serious success at the international level in 1986 when he joined the main team of the Hungarian national team and visited the World Championships in Canadian Montreal, from where he brought the gold medal award won by four-seater kayaks at a distance of 1000 meters. A year later, at similar competitions in German, Duisburg made a golden double, won at once in the spirit of the disciplines: in twos at five hundred meters and in fours at one thousand meters. He tried to qualify for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, but could not do it because of too high competition in the team.
At the world championship in 1990 in Polish Poznan, Fidel won gold in the four-kilometer program. Then in the next season at the World Championships in Paris, he received silver in four at five hundred meters and gold in four at one thousand meters, thus becoming the five-time world champion. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona - in the four-seater kayaks in the 1000-meter distance, together with partners Zsolt Gyulai , Attila Abraham and Ferenc Chipesch showed the second result in the final race, skipping ahead only the crew of , and thereby won the Olympic silver medal. Soon after this Olympiad, he decided to end his career as a professional athlete, giving way to the team of young Hungarian oarsmen.
Links
- Laszlo Fidel - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Laszlo Fidel - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of champions and prize-winners in rowing and canoeing (1936–2007) (English)