Ferenc Novák

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Hungary
Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 0 0 World Championships 3 3 1 European Championships 2 0 1 Total 6 3 2
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	C-2 500 m
World Championships
	1993 Copenhagen	C-4 500 m
	1994 Mexico City	C-4 500 m
	2003 Gainesville	C-4 1000 m
	1994 Mexico City	C-2 1000 m
	1995 Duisburg	C-4 1000 m
	1999 Milan	C-2 500 m
	2003 Gainesville	C-4 500 m

Ferenc Novák (born July 13, 1969 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed from the early 1990s to 2006. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he won a gold medal in the C-2 500 m event with teammate Imre Pulai.

In the four-man (C-4) canoe he has won a total of three world championship gold medals (1993, 1994 and 2003), as well as two European golds (2002 and 2004). Novák won a total of six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.

His last success came at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, where he won a C-4 500 m bronze medal.

Novak is currently a member of the Budapest Honvéd FC club.

Height: 173 cm (5'8"); weight 77 kg (169 lbs)

Awards

• Perpetual champion of Hungarian Kayak-Canoe

Orders and special awards

• Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2000)

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Kataca.hu profile at the Wayback Machine (archived March 28, 2013) (in Hungarian)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ferenc Novák". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.

External links

• Ferenc Novak at Olympics.com
• Ferenc Novák at Olympedia
• Novák Ferenc at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)