Tamara Csipes Explained

Tamara Csipes
Nationality:	Hungarian
Birth Date:	24 August 1989
Birth Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Height:	1.78 m
Weight:	78 kg
Country:	Hungary
Sport:	Sprint kayak
Club:	Dominó-Honvéd
Coach:	Ferenc Csipes
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Tamara Csipes (born 24 August 1989) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s.^[1] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and a silver medal in the Women's K-1 500 metres^[2]

Career

At the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, she won two gold medals earning them in the K-2 1000 m and K-4 500 m events. In 2015 Csipes was suspended for four months after she failed a drug test.^[3]

She competed at the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, and 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[4]

Awards

• Junior Príma award (2008)
• Excellent Athlete of Újbuda (2009)
• Hungarian Sportswoman of the Year – votes of sports journalists: 2011
• Perpetual champion of Hungarian Kayak-Canoe (2014)
• Order of Merit of Hungary – Officer's Cross (2016)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tamara Csipes Profile. Hungarian Canoe Federation. 20 August 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326033042/http://www.kajakkenusport.hu/valogatott/szemely/198. 26 March 2012.
2. Web site: Canoe Sprint - CSIPES Tamara. dead. 2021-08-08. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. en-us. 8 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210808181830/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/canoe-sprint/athlete-profile-n1302771-csipes-tamara.htm.
3. Web site: Hihetetlen: újabb kajakos, Kucsera is kokainnal bukott meg – 24.hu. 5 August 2015.
4. Web site: Tamara Csipes Results. 2021-08-08. ICF - Planet Canoe. en.