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György Kolonics

1972 - 2008

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György "Kolo" Kolonics (4 June 1972 – 15 July 2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two gold and two bronze medals at four Summer Olympics. He also won a record fifteen gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He died from cardiac arrest while preparing for his fifth Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of György Kolonics has received more than 51,211 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). György Kolonics is the 3,612th most popular athlete (down from 2,569th in 2019), the 929th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 769th in 2019) and the 113th most popular Hungarian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, György Kolonics ranks 3,612 out of 6,025. Before him are Eelco Sintnicolaas, Lewis Tewanima, Alexander Mikhaylin, Shannon Crawford, Darja Varfolomeev, and Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova. After him are Sebastian Samuelsson, Masashi Ebinuma, Lorraine Moller, Patricia Girard, Olga Kuragina, and David Broome.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, György Kolonics ranks 868. Before him are Armen Bagdasarov, David Belenguer, Daniela Hunger, Aurelia Dobre, Ekaterina Karsten, and Beto O'Rourke. After him are Fuat Usta, Jung Sung-sook, Soundarya, Keith Wood, Matthew Gilmore, and Yoshikazu Nonomura. Among people deceased in 2008, György Kolonics ranks 401. Before him are François Sterchele, Malalai Kakar, Eudy Simelane, G. David Low, Es'kia Mphahlele, and Tim Russert. After him are Bill Brown, Jacob Lekgetho, Tony Snow, Jerry Finn, Jonathan James, and Agata Mróz-Olszewska.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, György Kolonics ranks 929 out of 1,077. Before him are Tibor Gécsek (1964), Dénes Dibusz (1990), Zoltán Stieber (1988), Ferenc Csipes (1965), Tamás Kásás (1976), and Áron Szilágyi (1990). After him are Tamás Kádár (1990), Krisztián Németh (1989), Júlia Sebestyén (1981), Katalin Kovács (1976), László Fidel (1965), and ByeAlex (1984).

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Among ATHLETES In Hungary

Among athletes born in Hungary, György Kolonics ranks 113. Before him are Krisztián Pars (1982), Róbert Fazekas (1975), Bertalan Hajtós (1965), Attila Ábrahám (1967), Tibor Gécsek (1964), and Tamás Kásás (1976). After him are Katalin Kovács (1976), László Fidel (1965), Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth (1968), József Csák (1966), Rita Kőbán (1965), and Éva Dónusz (1967).

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