Roland Kökény

The native form of this personal name is Kökény Roland. This article uses the Western name order.
Roland Kökény
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
2012 London K-2 1000 m
World Championships
2005 Zagreb K-2 1000 m
2006 Szeged K-4 1000 m
2001 Poznań K-4 1000 m
2003 Gainesville K-4 1000 m
2013 Duisburg K-2 1000 m
European Championships
2012 Zagreb K-2 1000 m
2011 Belgrade K-2 1000 m

Roland Kökény (born 24 October 1975) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 2000s in European and World Championships as well as the Olympics Games. A member of the Esztergom Kayak-Canoe club, he is 185 centimetres (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighs 82 kilograms (181 lb; 12.9 st).

Biography

Born in Miskolc, Kökény won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2006) and two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2003).

Kökény also competed in three Summer Olympics, at the London Olympics of 2012, he won the gold medal together with Rudolf Dombi for his country in the Kayak Double (K2) 1000m.[1] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he came sixth in the K-1 1000 m event.

Awards and honours

Orders and special awards

References

  1. "London 2012 Men's K2 1000m". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 4 August 2014.


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