Szilveszter Csollány | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country represented | Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1970-04-13)13 April 1970 Sopron, Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 24 January 2022(2022-01-24) (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 gold medal at that year's World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Csollány moved——to Iceland in 2011. And became a gymnastics coach at Grótta.
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 previously been critical of vaccination. But finally decided to get vaccinated. Because of a job abroad. He was hospitalised with COVID-19 in mid-November 2021, "and put on a ventilator." 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.
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
- Awards and decorations
- Outstanding Youth Sportsman (1989)
- Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (1996)
- Hungarian Gymnast of the Year (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
- Hungarian Sportsman of the Year (2000, 2002)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2000)
- Dunaferr Award (2000)
- Immortal of Hungarian Gymnastics (2009)
- Hungarian Tolerance Award (2011)
References※
- ^ Þorvaldsson, Óskar Hrafn (14–16 October 2011). "Ólympíumeistari á Seltjarnarnesi". Fréttatíminn (in Icelandic). p. 26. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ "Mi van most Csollány Szilveszterrel? Ezek a hírek jöttek az állapotáról". Blikk (in Hungarian). 21 January 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ Kiss, B. László (8 January 2022). "Egy hónapja van lélegeztetőgépen: Csollány Szilveszter kegyetlen küzdelme az életéért". Blikk (in Hungarian). Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Szilveszter Csollány is Hospitalized With Coronavirus". The Miskolc Sun. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ "Gyász: elhunyt az olimpiai bajnok Csollány Szilveszter". Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Elhunyt Csollány Szilveszter". M4 Sport (in Hungarian). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ "Ónodi és Csollány halhatatlanná váltak". Magyar Nemzet (in Hungarian). Magyar Távirati Iroda. 24 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ "Magyar Tolerancia Díj". magyartoleranciadij.otalapitvany.eu (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
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Preceded by | Hungarian Sportsman of the Year 2000 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Hungarian Sportsman of the Year 2002 |
Succeeded by |
- 1970 births
- 2022 deaths
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary
- Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Gymnastics coaches
- Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
- Hungarian male artistic gymnasts
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Officer's Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic gymnasts for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
- Sportspeople from Sopron
- World champion gymnasts
- Anti-vaccination activist deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic