Csaba Szűcs (born 29 January 1965 in

Kiskunfélegyháza Kiskunfélegyháza () is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary. Geography Kiskunfélegyháza is located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, southeast from Budapest. M5 motorway, Highway 5, 451, Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged railway line ...

, Bács-Kiskun) is a retired Hungarian athlete, who specialized in the

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events. He represented his native

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an country at the

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, where he did not finish the race. He was the winner of the 1989 Italian Marathon and also won the Lille Marathon in 1993. He was selected for the Hungarian team at the

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and finished in ninth place in the marathon.

Personal best

*Marathon — 2.12.10 (1993)

Achievements

References

sports-reference

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1965 births Living people People from Kiskunfélegyháza Hungarian male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Hungary Athletes from Bács-Kiskun County 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-athletics-bio-stub