György Mészáros

Men's K-2 1000 metres medalist at the [[1960 Summer Olympics]]. 1st: Sweden with [[Gert Fredriksson]] and [[Sven-Olov Sjödelius]]. 2nd: Hungary with [[András Szente]] and György Mészáros. 3rd: Poland with [[Stefan Kapłaniak]] and [[Władysław Zieliński]]. György Mészáros (30 April 1933 – 14 September 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.

Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958, K-4 10000 m: 1971), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1954).

His daughter Erika won two Olympic canoeing medals of her own in the women's K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Musical Instruments’ African-Based Studies: The Application of the Afro-Brazilian Knowledge to Study Non-African-based Musical Instruments by Adrian Estrela Pereira, Ekaterina Konopleva, Jehan Alghneimin, Nicole Kasbary, György Mészáros

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