K-4, men, 200 m

What to remember

Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1997: at the European Championships the Hungarian K-4 covered 200 m in 29.023 s. Gyula Kajner, Vince Fehérvári, Zoltán Páger and István Beé set the world best time for the four-seat kayak over 200 m.

Gyula Kajner made this event his own. Racing from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, he won five medals at the World Championships, including four titles in the K-4 200 m (1995, 1998, 1999 and 2001), plus a bronze in the K-4 500 m in 1990.

The International Canoe Federation calls this a world best time rather than a world record. It only counts times set in finals of major meets, and a European Championships like the one in Plovdiv is among them, as are the Worlds, the Olympics and World Cup rounds.