István Vaskuti
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1980 MoscowC-2 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1977 SofiaC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place1978 BelgradeC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place1981 NottinghamC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place1985 MechelenC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place1986 MontrealC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place1986 MontrealC-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place1982 BelgradeC-2 500 m

István Vaskuti (born December 4, 1955, in Debrecen) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the C-2 500 m event in Moscow in 1980.

Vaskuti also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (C-2 500 m: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1986; C-2 1000 m: 1986) and one bronze (C-2 500 m: 1982). After his career as active competitor, he started to work as a canoe-coach and succeeded also on this side of the sport and won several world and Olympic titles as coach of different famous canoeists.

He is now a sports administrator, chairman of the International Canoe Federation Flatwater Committee. He was Chief Official at the 2006 World Championships, held in the Hungarian city of Szeged. In 2008, Vaskúti was elected First Vice President of the ICF at their Congress in Rome.

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