Szilveszter Csollány
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| Country represented |  Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 April 1970 Sopron, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 January 2022 (aged 51) Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Szilveszter Csollány (Hungarian: [ˈsilvɛstɛr ˈt͡ʃollaːɲ]; 13 April 1970 – 24 January 2022) was a Hungarian gymnast who won gold in the men's rings at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Life and career[]
Csollány won gold in the men's rings at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with a score of 9.85. This achievement earned him the title 2000 Hungarian Sportsman of The Year. He was again chosen as sportsman of the year in 2002 after winning a gold medal at that year's World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Csollány moved to Iceland in 2011 and became a gymnastics coach at Grótta.[1]
Death[]
In November 2021, Csollány contracted an undisclosed variant of SARS-CoV-2. According to his doctor, he was given the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine two weeks before he fell ill. This vaccine requires only one dose. Csollány had previouly been critical of vaccination, but finally decided to get vaccinated, because of a job abroad.[2] He was hospitalised in mid-November 2021 with COVID-19 and put on a ventilator.[3] His condition became more serious in late November and he was transported from Sopron in Western Hungary to a hospital in the Hungarian capital Budapest.[4]
He died from COVID-19 in Budapest on 24 January 2022, at the age of 51.[5]
Achievements[]
- Olympic Games
- 6th place 1992 Barcelona Men's Rings
- Silver Medal 1996 Atlanta Men's Rings
- Gold Medal 2000 Sydney Men's Rings
- World Championships
- Gold Medal 2002 Debrecen Men's Rings
- Silver Medal 1992 Paris, 1996 San Juan, 1997 Lausanne, 1999 Tianjin, 2001 Ghent Men's Rings
- European Championships
- Gold Medal 1998 Men's Rings
- Silver Medal 2000 Men's Rings
- Bronze Medal 1990, 1992, 1994, 2002 Men's Rings
References[]
- ^ "Ólympíumeistari á Seltjarnarnesi". Fréttatíminn. 14 October 2011. p. 26.
- ^ Mi van most Csollány Szilveszterrel? Ezek a hírek jöttek az állapotáról, blikk.hu, 21 January 2022
- ^ "Egy hónapja van lélegeztetőgépen: Csollány Szilveszter kegyetlen küzdelme az életéért" (in Hungarian). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ Szilveszter Csollány is Hospitalized With Coronavirus, miskolcsun.hu
- ^ nemzetisport.hu (24 January 2022). "Gyász: elhunyt az olimpiai bajnok Csollány Szilveszter - NSO". NSO.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 24 January 2022.
External links[]
- Szilveszter Csollány at Olympedia
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