Zoltán Kővágó
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Zoltán Kővágó (born 10 April 1979 in Szolnok) is a Hungarian discus thrower. At the 2004 Olympic Games he initially won the bronze medal, but was promoted to silver when countrymen Róbert Fazekas was disqualified following a doping rule violation.
He himself was serving a competition ban for "evading doping testing". In August 2011 an Austrian doping controller searched for him in his former address. Kővágó already moved from there – he also officially reported his new address earlier – thus according to the controller's own admission he made an appointment with him on the phone and he stated Kővágó had not wanted to meet with him and had refused to give a sample. On the contrary Kővágó could be able to prove with the call registry that in said period the controller did not make any attempt to search for him. The standpoint of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Committee was that the athlete is innocent and the charge does not hold and together with the Hungarian Olympic Committee and the Hungarian Athletics Association they dispensed the athlete after their investigation. The IAAF did not accept this, thus the Hungarian Athletics Association appealed to the CAS (International Sport Court) and fully supported the athlete arguing all the evidence contradicts the controller's word.[1] In the final sentence the former decision of the IAAF was approved[2] and the athlete was banned.[3] The ban lasted from 11 August 2011 to 5 July 2014.[4]
His personal best throw is 69.95 m, achieved in May 2006 in Salon-de-Provence.
Achievements
Awards
- Masterly youth athlete: 1997
Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Golden Cross (2004)
- Hungarian athlete of the Year (1): 2004
References
- ^ "Óriási magyar sportdiplomáciai kudarc – A huge failure of the Hungarian Sport Diplomacy". 24.hu. 26 July 2012.
- ^ "Kővágó nem indulhat az olimpián – Kővágó cannot compete in the Olympic Games". 24.hu. 26 July 2012.
- ^ "Amerikaiként indulhatna Kővágó? – Kővágó could be able to compete if he'd be American?". mno.hu.
- ^ Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 18.04.14
External links
- Zoltán Kővágó at World Athletics
- Zoltán Kővágó at Diamond League
- Zoltán Kővágó at European Athletics (archive)
- Zoltán Kővágó at Olympics.com
- Zoltán Kővágó at Olympic.org (archived)
- Zoltán Kővágó at Olympedia
- Zoltán Kővágó at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Zoltán Kővágó at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (in Hungarian) (English translation)
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- 1986:
Vasil Baklarov (BUL)
- 1988:
Andreas Seelig (GDR)
- 1990:
Ilian Iliev (BUL)
- 1992:
Brian Milne (USA)
- 1994:
Frantz Kruger (RSA)
- 1996:
Casey Malone (USA)
- 1998:
Zoltán Kővágó (HUN)
- 2000:
Hannes Hopley (RSA)
- 2002:
Wu Tao (CHN)
- 2004:
Ehsan Haddadi (IRI)
- 2006:
Margus Hunt (EST)
- 2008:
Gordon Wolf (GER)
- 2010:
Andrius Gudžius (LTU)
- 2012:
Fedrick Dacres (JAM)
- 2014:
Martin Marković (CRO)
- 2016:
Moaaz Mohamed Ibrahim (QAT)
- 2018:
Kai Chang (JAM)
- 2021:
Mykolas Alekna (LTU)
- 2022:
Marius Karges (GER)
- 2024:
Bryce Ruland (USA)
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