Erika Mészáros

Erika Mészáros (born 24 June 1966 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won two medals in the K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.

Mészáros also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-4 500 m: both 1986), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993; K-4 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1993).

Her father, György, won two Olympic canoeing silver medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, earning them in the K-1 4 x 500 m relay and K-2 1000 m events.

Awards

 * Hungarian kayaker of the Year (4): 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992
 * HUN Order of Labor 2kl BAR.png Work Order of Merit of Hungarian People's Republic – Silver Cross (1988)
 * HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 5class BAR.svg Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Small Cross (1992)
 * Member of the Hungarian team of year (with Rita Kőbán, Éva Dónusz, Kinga Czigány): 1992