Ferenc Novák

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 SydneyC-2 500 m
World Championships
1993 CopenhagenC-4 500 m
1994 Mexico CityC-4 500 m
2003 GainesvilleC-4 1000 m
1994 Mexico CityC-2 1000 m
1995 DuisburgC-4 1000 m
1999 MilanC-2 500 m
2003 GainesvilleC-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 ft 8 in); weight 77 kg (170 lb)