Márton Joób (born 24 June 1982 in Szeged) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist and a politician. He is married to Dóra, and they have 11 children.[1]
As an athlete he has competed since 2003. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (C-4 200 m: 2007, C-4 500 m: 2007, C-4 1000 m: 2003) and one bronze (C-4 200 m: 2006).
Joób also finished seventh in the C-1 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He is a politician for the Hungarian Socialist Party. He's been a councilman in the local government of Szeged since 2014.[2]
Joób has been detained by the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) on July 28, 2020, on charges of VAT fraud in the range of hundreds of millions of Forints.[3] [4] His house arrest has been ordered on July 30, 2020.[5]