Sport: Canoeing Inducted: 1996 Country: Hungary Born: 1934 in Budapest, Hungary
At the Melbourne
Olympic Games in 1956, Laszlo Fabian (with Hungarian partner
Janos Uranyi) won the gold medal in the
10,000-Meter Kayak Doubles event (43:37.0). They were
the first Hungarians ever to win a medal in Olympic canoe-kayak
competition.
Fabian is also the winner of four World kayak championships
and seven European championships. His World titles: 1958
in the K-2 10,000-Meters with Uranyi; 1963 with Istvan Timer;
1966 with Imre Szollosi; and 1963, in the K-4 10,000-Meters,
with Timer, Otto Koltai, and Laszlo Urogi.
