Jozsef Deme ( Hungarian. Deme József ; December 11, 1951 , Szolnok ) - Hungarian kayaker , played for the national team of Hungary throughout the 1970s. Silver medalist at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, 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 | Szolnoki Vízügy Sportegyesület |
| Date of Birth | December 11, 1951 (67 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Szolnok , Hungary |
| Growth | 190 cm |
| Weight | 84 kg |
Biography
Jozsef Deme was born on December 11, 1951 in the city of Szolnok , the county of Yas-Nagykun-Szolnok . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, trained at the local sports club Szolnoki Vízügy Sportegyesület.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1972, when he became a member of the Hungarian national team and thanks to a series of successful performances he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Munich Summer Olympics - together with his team-mate Janos Ratkai, he won a silver medal in the classification of double kayaks on distances of 1000 meters, losing in the decisive race only to the Soviet crew Nikolai Gorbachev and Viktor Kratasyuk .
In 1973, Deme attended the World Championships in Finnish Tampere, where he went up to the podium three times: he won a silver medal in deuces at five hundred meters, as well as gold medals in deuces and fours at 1000 meters. A year later, at the World Championships in Mexico City, among double kayaks, he took silver at a half-kilometer distance and among four-seater bronzes at a kilometer. A year later, at similar competitions in Yugoslav Belgrade, he was awarded bronze medals in doubles at a thousand meters and fours at a thousand meters. Being one of the leaders of the rowing team of Hungary, he successfully qualified for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal - he started here in doubles at a distance of 500 meters and in fours at a distance of 1000 meters, but could not get into the number of winners in the first one: in the first finished fifth case, in the second - showed the eighth result.
After the Montreal Olympics, Deme remained in the main team of the Hungarian national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1980, he performed at the Olympic Games in Moscow - in the fours at a distance of 1000 meters he became fifth in the final race, not reaching the prize positions. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end his sports career, giving way to young Hungarian rowers in the national team.
Links
- Jozsef Deme - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Jozsef Deme - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )