Achievements

• 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. Mészáros also won five medals at the International Coach Federation 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.