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 the Western name order.

Ferenc Novák

Medal record
Men’s canoe sprint
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-4 500 m
	1999 Milan	C-2 500 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)

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
• Kataca.hu profile (Hungarian)
• Sports-Reference.com profile