Two-time Olympic gold medal champion canoeist Gyorgy Kolonics died in Budapest while practicing for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Between the years 1993 and 2007, Kolonics won 15 world championships. If he had survived, the 2008 Olympics would have been his 5th time participating.International Herald Tribune: Two-time Olympic canoeing champion Gyorgy Kolonics of Hungary dies at 36(July 15, 2008)
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Was from Hungary
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36 years old at time of death
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Died while practicing for the 2008 Summer Olympics
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Collapsed in a canoe
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Paramedics unable to resuscitate him
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