Attila Paliz ( Hungarian Attila Pálizs ; April 21, 1967 , Dunaujváros ) - Hungarian canoe rower , played for the Hungarian national team in the early 1990s. Participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Hungary |
| Specialization | canoe , 500 m |
| Club | Budapest Honved |
| Date of Birth | April 21, 1967 (52 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Dunaujváros , Hungary |
| Height | 183 cm |
| The weight | 88 kg |
Biography
Attila Palisz was born on April 21, 1967 in the town of Dunaujvaros County Feuer . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, was trained in Budapest in the capital's sports club "Budapest Honved".
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1990, when he joined the Hungarian national team and attended the World Championships in Poznan, Poland, from where he brought the bronze dignity, won in the double canoe category with György Zala at a distance of 500 meters - the finals were bypassed by crews from the USSR and the GDR. A year later, he performed at the world championship in Paris, where in the same discipline, together with Attila, Szabo defeated all his rivals and thereby won a gold medal.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Palisz won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona - in the canoe-two program, together with György Kolonic, he started in the 500 and 1000 meters races, in the first case he showed the seventh result, while in the second the case finished fifth in the decisive race, not reaching the prize positions a bit. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end the career of a professional athlete, giving way to young Hungarian rowers in the national team.
Links
- Attila Palis - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Attila Palisch - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )