György Mészáros

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{{Eastern name order|Mészáros György}}

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György Mészáros (30 April 1933 – 14 September 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.{{cite web |url=http://www.xlsport.hu/elhunyt-az-olimpiai-ezustermes-kajakos-meszaros-gyorgy/ |title=Elhunyt az olimpiai ezüstérmes kajakos, Mészáros György |work=xlsport.hu|date=15 September 2015 }}{{cite Sports-Reference |title=György Mészáros |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/gyorgy-meszaros-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203152712/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/gyorgy-meszaros-1.html |archive-date=2016-12-03 |url-status=dead}}

Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958, K-4 10000 m: 1971), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1954).

His daughter Erika won two Olympic canoeing medals of her own in the women's K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.