Csaba Szűcs (born 29 January 1965 in

Kiskunfélegyháza Kiskunfélegyháza (; german: Feulegaß) 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–Sz ...

, 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

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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 Sportspeople from Bács-Kiskun County 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-athletics-bio-stub