Great Olympians

Biographies - KOV


Kovács Ágnes

Hungary
Swimming (1 gold, 1 bronze)
1996 2000 2004 HP
100 m Breast stroke 7th fifth 10th 1500
200 m Breast stroke bronze gold fifth 12450
200 m Individual Medley - - fourth 1600
4 x 100 m Medley Relay - 11th 13th 22.4
15572.4


Ernst Kovács

Olympic Competitor nr 6218

As the losing finalist, Austria was allowed to lay both Sweden and Belgium for a medal, but lost both those matches.


Kovács Katalin

B. 1976-02-29, Budapest, Hungary
Canoeing (2 gold, 4 silver)
2000 2004 2008 HP
K2 500 m silver gold gold 18900
K4 500 m silver silver silver 6600
25500


Kovács Miklós = Mór Kóczán

Olympic Competitor nr 3748

He competed for Czechoslovakia in 1924, so he should be classed as Slovakian, so as not to have to change nationalities


Kovács Nándor

Olympic Competitor nr 2408


Kovács Pál

B. 1913, Hungary
Fencing (6 gold, 1 bronze)
1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 HP
Sabre, individual - bronze gold 7th - 11700
Sabre, team gold gold gold gold gold 16000
27700

Member of the Hungarian Sabre team that won gold at Berlin, London, Helsinki, Melbourne and Rome. He won individual gold in '52, bronze in '48. He was World sabre champion in 1937 and 1953. He later became president of the Hungarian Fencing Federation.


Kövesdi Géza

Olympic Competitor nr 4458


Written 2000-11-29 - last modified 2011-08-13

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