Hungarian sprint canoeist (born 1955)The native form of this personal name is Vaskuti István.:This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

István Vaskuti (born December 4, 1955 in Debrecen) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the C-2 500 m event in Moscow in 1980.

Vaskuti also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (C-2 500 m: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1986; C-2 1000 m: 1986) and one bronze (C-2 500 m: 1982).After his career as active compe*or, he started to work as a canoe-coach and succeeded also on this side of the sport and won several world and Olympic *les as coach of different famous canoeists.

He is now a sports administrator, chairman of the International Canoe Federation Fla*er Committee. He was Chief Official at the 2006 World Championships, held in the Hungarian city of Szeged. In 2008, Vaskúti was elected First Vice President of the ICF at their Congress in Rome.

References

• ICF 2008 ICF Congress report in Rome, including Vaskuti's appointment. - accessed November 30, 2008.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: fla*er (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of fla*er (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "István Vaskuti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05.