Tamás Buday

The native form of this personal name is Buday Tamás. This article uses the Western name order.

Tamás Buday

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	C-2 500 m
	1976 Montreal	C-2 1000 m
World Championships
	1978 Belgrade	C-2 1000 m
	1978 Belgrade	C-2 10000 m
	1981 Nottingham	C-2 10000 m
	1983 Tampere	C-2 10000 m
	1974 Mexico City	C-2 10000 m
	1975 Belgrade	C-2 10000 m
	1977 Sofia	C-2 1000 m
	1979 Duisburg	C-2 1000 m
	1981 Nottingham	C-1 1000 m
	1973 Tampere	C-2 10000 m
	1977 Sofia	C-1 1000 m
	1979 Duisburg	C-2 10000 m
	1982 Belgrade	C-2 10000 m

Tamás Buday (born July 5, 1952) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won bronze medals in the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events at Montreal in 1976.

Buday also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four gold (C-2 1000 m: 1978, C-2 10000 m: 1978, 1981, 1983), five silvers (C-1 1000 m: 1981, C-2 1000 m: 1977, 1979; C-2 10000 m: 1974, 1975), and four bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 1977, C-2 10000 m: 1973, 1979, 1982).

He defected to Canada in 1987 Buday's sons Attila and Tamás, Jr. competed for Canada in three Summer Olympics, earning their best finish of seventh in the C-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000.

See also

• List of Eastern Bloc defectors

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile