Erika Mészáros

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

Erika Mészáros

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Representing Hungary
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	K-4 500 m
	1988 Seoul	K-4 500 m
World Championships
	1986 Montreal	K-2 500 m
	1986 Montreal	K-4 500 m
	1989 Plovdiv	K-2 500 m
	1989 Plovdiv	K-4 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-2 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-2 5000 m
	1990 Poznań	K-4 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-2 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-4 500 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-2 5000 m
	1993 Copenhagen	K-4 500 m

Erika Mészáros (born 24 June 1966 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won two medals in the K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.

Mészáros also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-4 500 m: both 1986), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993; K-4 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1993).

Her father, György, won two Olympic canoeing silver medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, earning them in the K-1 4 x 500 m relay and K-2 1000 m events.

Awards

• Hungarian kayaker of the Year (4): 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992
• Work Order of Merit of Hungarian People's Republic – Silver Cross (1988)
• Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Small Cross (1992)
• Member of the Hungarian team of year (with Rita Kőbán, Éva Dónusz, Kinga Czigány): 1992

References

• Erika Mészáros at DatabaseOlympics.com at archive.today (archived January 21, 2013)
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: 13 January 2016.
• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016.
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Erika Mészáros". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Fours 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press. p. 495.

External links

• Erika Mészáros at Olympics.com
• Erika Mészáros at Olympedia
• Erika Mészáros at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)