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Erika Géczi

Hungarian canoe sprinter (born 1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Erika Géczi is a retired Hungarian canoe sprinter who competed in the 1980s. She won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics, as well as six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, three silvers, and two bronzes.

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“Erika Géczi” enters the record as hungarian canoe sprinter (born 1959). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Erika, Géczi and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erika Géczi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.