Ferenc Novák

For the Hungarian Slovene priest and writer, see Ferenc Novák (writer).

The native form of this personal name is Novák Ferenc. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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)