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29 unusual facts about Szeged


Adam van Koeverden

At the 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, van Koeverden finished fourth in both the K-1 500 m and 1000 m finals.

Albert Gjedde

As a junior investigator, Albert Gjedde worked as a visiting scientist at universities or research institutions in Lund, Sweden; Cologne, Leipzig, and Dresden, Germany; Paris, France; Szeged, Hungary; and Baltimore, MD, USA.

Alexey Volkonsky

In 2002 European Championship in Szeged he won two medals (500m silver and 200m bronze).

Christoph Sonnleithner

Christoph Sonnleithner, born 28 May 1734 in Szeged, Hungary, and died 25 December 1786 in Vienna, was an Austrian jurist and composer.

Ed McKeever

In 2012 McKeever won the K1 200m event at the Word Cup in Poznan he also won the K1 200m at the European Championships in 2010 Trasona, Spain and the kayak World Cup race in Szeged, Hungary.

He won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a gold in the K-1 200 m and a silver in the K-1 4 × 200 m events, and a further silver in the K-1 200m at the 2011 event in Szeged.

Fernando Fernandes De Pádua

He won a gold medal in the K-1 200 m A event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań and one year later at the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.

Heissler

Donat John Count Heissler of Heitersheim (* 1648; † September, 1st 1696 at Szeged) was Impérial and Royal Marshal ( KK) of the Austria-Hungary empire.

Ivan Fellegi

Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956.

János Fadrusz

His major works in the twentieth century modelled shortly before his death include the Equestrian Statue of Béla Wenckheim (Kisbér, 1901), Statue of Wesselényi (Zilah, 1901), Tuhutum Memorial (Zilah, 1902), and Statue of Lajos Tisza (Szeged, 1903).

Kalács

In the Szeged region at All Saints unfilled kalács was baked called All Saints' Kalács (mindönszentök kalácsa, kóduskalács = Beggar's Kalács), which was given to beggars at the gate of the graveyard.

Kamilló Lendvay

After graduation, in 1957 he undertook a conducting post with the Szeged Opera.

Ken Wallace

In 2006, with Australian number one Nathan Baggaley serving a drugs ban, Wallace was selected to represent Australia at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary, where he placed fifth in the K-1 1000 m final.

Last Glacial Maximum

Permafrost covered Europe south of the ice sheet down to present-day Szeged in Southern Hungary.

Laurens Pannecoucke

Pannecoucke qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by finishing fourth from the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.

Lisa Carrington

In June 2009 she won a bronze medal at the World Cup regatta held in Szeged, Hungary, competing alongside Teneale Hatton in the women's K-2 1000 metres event.

Louis A. Waldman

In the spring of 2008 Waldman was among of a number of scholars who independently identified a painting of the Annunciation in a provincial museum of Hungary, the Móra Ferenc Múzeum in Szeged, as the work of Giorgio Vasari.

Nudity in sport

The top event of naturist sport in Europe (and perhaps worldwide) is the famous International Naturist Sports Week in Hungarian naturist camping and recreational center of Sziksósfürdő near Szeged.

Olivier Cauwenbergh

Cauwenbergh qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by finishing fourth from the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.

Peter Glassen

Born in Szeged, Hungary (then the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on October 19, 1920, Glassen emigrated with his parents to Toronto, Canada in 1929, residing on Gladstone Avenue in the city's west end.

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Ronald Rauhe

These three victories were repeated at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.

Stephen Giles

His best races came in the C-1 1000 m event later in his career, earning the world championship gold medal in 1998 at Szeged, Hungary.

Szilvia Péter Szabó

Szilvia Péter Szabó (born 9 September 1982 in Szeged, Hungary) is Hungarian pop singer.

Tim Brabants

Brabants won the K-1 1000 m European championship at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had won the blue riband event.

Tim Wieskötter

In addition, Rauhe and Wieskötter hold the K-2 500 m world record of 1:26.971 (Szeged, 2002).

Yang Wenjun

At the 2006 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, Yang concentrated on the shorter distance events.

Zsigmond Szathmáry

Zsigmond Szathmáry (born 28 April 1939 in Hódmezővásárhely, near Szeged) is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor.

Zsolt Becsey

Zsolt László Becsey (born on 12 January 1964 in Szeged)


Ádám Hrepka

Ádám Hrepka (born 15 April 1987 in Szeged) is an Hungarian football player who plays for Bnei Yehuda F.C. He is a striker and has also played for the Hungary national team.

Árpád Potápi

In 1991 he graduated from Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College of Szeged as a teacher of Hungarian language, literature, history.

Ayala Truelove

In 2001 Ayala took up gliding and represented Great Britain at the 2009 World Gliding Championships in Szeged.

Badea Cârțan

In 1895 he travelled to Vác and Szeged to visit imprisoned Romanians, including the signatories of the Transylvanian Memorandum.

Erika Medveczky

She won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, which success she repeated two years later at the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.

Lajos Gönczy

Lajos Gönczy (24 February 1881 in Szeged, Hungary – 4 December 1915 in San Michele, Italy) was a Hungarian high jumper, who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Pista Dankó

While living in Szeged, Dankó composed music for over 400 poems, including the work of Lajos Pósa.

Sándor Szurmay

He made the secondary school for sciences on Szeged, then breaking his studies he reported himself to the Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company, where he worked as a trainee later official.

Subotica tram system

While neighbouring cities' trams at this date were often still horse-drawn, this gave the Subotica system an advantage over municipalities including Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zagreb, and Szeged.

Tim Brabants

However, he returned to action in 2006, winning the gold medal in Račice in the K-1 1000 m event at the European Championships and the silver medal in the same event at the World Championships in Szeged in August 2006, finishing just 0.06 seconds behind Sweden's Markus Oscarsson.

Viktor Kadler

In 2006 they lost their 200 m titles, finishing third at the European Championships at Račice, and second at the World Championships in Szeged.