Attila Czene (born 20 June 1974) is a former medley swimmer from

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

, who won the gold medal in the 200 m individual medley at the

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, Georgia. He competed in three consecutive

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for his native country, starting in

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Awards

* Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Bronze Cross (1992) * Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Officer's Cross (1996) * Hungarian swimmer of the Year (2): 1996, 2000 * Immortal of Hungarian swimming (2014)

References

Profile on FINA-website
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