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András Rajna (born September 3, 1960) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three
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, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at
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in
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
. Rajna also won three medals at the
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with two silvers (K-2 500 m:
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,
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) and a bronze (K-4 500 m:
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).


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1960 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Hungarian male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Hungary Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-Olympic-medalist-stub