Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
Representing Hungary | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2012 London | K-2 1000 m | |
World Championships | ||
2005 Zagreb | K-2 1000 m | |
2006 Szeged | K-4 1000 m | |
2001 Poznań | K-4 1000 m | |
2003 Gainesville | K-4 1000 m | |
2013 Duisburg | K-2 1000 m | |
European Championships | ||
2012 Zagreb | K-2 1000 m | |
2011 Belgrade | K-2 1000 m |
Roland Kökény (born 24 October 1975) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 2000s in European and World Championships as well as the Olympics Games. A member of the Esztergom Kayak-Canoe club, he is 185 centimetres (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighs 82 kilograms (181 lb; 12.9 st).
Born in Miskolc, Kökény won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2006) and two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2003).
Kökény also competed in three Summer Olympics, at the London Olympics of 2012, he won the gold medal together with Rudolf Dombi for his country in the Kayak Double (K2) 1000m. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he came sixth in the K-1 1000 m event.