Balázs Hajdú (born 27 May 1975 in Budapest) is a retired Hungarian sailor who specialized in the Finn class.[1] He has been selected to compete for Hungary in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has been a resident athlete for 15 years at the Hungarian Training Center (Hungarian: Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre in Budapest, under the tutelage of his longtime coach György Wossala.[2]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Balázs Hajdú |
| Nationality |  Hungary |
| Born | 27 May 1975 Budapest, Hungary |
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 104 kg (229 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Dinghy |
| Club | MTK Budapest |
| Coach | György Wossala |
Hajdu made his first Hungarian team, as a 25-year-old yachtsman, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished fifteenth in the Finn class with a grade of 102.[3]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hajdu qualified for his second Hungarian team in the men's Finn class, by attaining one of the available Olympic berths at the European Championships three months earlier in La Rochelle, France.[4][5] Unlike his previous Games, Hajdu fared poorly throughout the eleven-race series on 183 points to obtain a thirty-third overall position from a fleet of twenty-five sailors.[6][7]
A lawyer since 2001, Hajdu served as a member of the ISAF Constitution Committee and a board member of the Hungarian Yachting Association, before being elected as the president of the International Finn Class Association in 2005.[8]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Balázs Hajdú". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ "Dr. Hajdu Balázs maradt a Nemzetközi Finn Szövetség elnöke" [Dr. Balazs Hajdu was President of the International Finn Association] (in Hungarian). Magyar Vitorlás Szövetség. 5 May 2014. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Finn Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 75. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ "Finn dingi-Eb: Hajdu Balázs kvótát érő helyen" [European Finn sailing: Balázs Hajdú grabbed the quota place] (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 11 May 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ "Over 100 To Compete In La Rochelle". ISAF. 7 May 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ "Men's Finn Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Ainslie ezúttal Finndingiben nyert" [Ainslie won the Finn class this time] (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ "Dr. Balazs Hajdu Elected Finn Class President". ISAF. 9 August 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
External links
edit- Balázs Hajdú at World Sailing
- Balázs Hajdú at Olympics.com
- Balázs Hajdú at Olympedia
- Profile – Kataca.hu
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