Tamás Wichmann

Tamás Wichmann was a Hungarian sprint canoeist born in Budapest on 4 February 1948. After a childhood accident that left him with a lifelong limp, he tried boxing before settling on canoeing and began training in 1962. He won Olympic silver in the C-2 1,000 metres at Mexico City in 1968 with Gyula Petrikovics, silver in the C-1 1,000 metres at Munich in 1972 and bronze in the same event at Montreal in 1976, and also started at the 1980 Games in Moscow. He collected nine world championship gold medals and three European titles, won the Hungarian championship 37 times, and received the UNESCO International Fair Play Prize in 1979. After his career he ran a Budapest pub bearing his name. He died in Budapest in 2020.