Tibor Heyi ( Hungarian. Tibor Helyi ; April 19, 1963 , Budapest ) - Hungarian kayaker , played for the Hungarian national team throughout the 1980s. Participant in the Seoul Summer Olympics, world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Hungary |
| Specialization | kayak , 10,000 m |
| Date of Birth | April 19, 1963 (56 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Budapest , Hungary |
| Growth | 186 cm |
| Weight | 78 kg |
Biography
Tibor Heyi was born on April 19, 1963 in Budapest . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, was trained in the capital's MTK sports club.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1982, when he joined the Hungarian national team and attended the World Championships in Yugoslav Belgrade, from where he brought a bronze dignity award won in the classification of four-seater kayaks at a distance of 10,000 meters.
In 1985, Heyi spoke at the world championships in the Belgian Mechelen and won the four in ten kilometers. A year later, at the world championship in Canadian Montreal, he took bronze in the same discipline. A year later, at similar competitions in Duisburg, Germany, he added to his track record a silver medal obtained in the same ten-kilometer four-piece kayaking discipline.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Tibor Heyi was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - he managed to reach the final stage of the tournament together with his teammate Andras Raina , but finished only in ninth in the decisive race. Soon after the end of the Seoul Olympics, he decided to end his sports career, losing his place in the national team to young Hungarian rowers.
Links
- Tibor Heyi - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Tibor Heyi - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )