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Roland Varga (born August 6, 1990) is a Canadian canoeist. [1] Varga immigrated with his family to Canada when he was 15. [1] Varga currently resides in Aurora, Ontario.
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Roland Varga (born August 6, 1990) is a Canadian canoeist. [1] Varga immigrated with his family to Canada when he was 15. [1] Varga currently resides in Aurora, Ontario.
Varga has competed as part of the national team since 2009. His first multi-sport games was the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara where he was disqualified in the C-1 1000 event. In 2012 along with partner, Paul Bryant, competed on the World Cup Circuit, with their top placing being a C-2 500m silver in 2013. Also in 2013, Varga competed in both the U23 and senior ICF World Championships. At the former, he finished fourth in the C-2 1000m with Marc Tarling. At the latter, Varga and Bryant won the B final in the C-2 500m. [1]
In 2014, Varga raced with Gabriel Beauchesne-Sévigny during the World Cup calendar, and made the A Final in three of four races. In 2015, Varga had a decided to stop paddling, after he had a disappointing national trials. However, seven months later Varga decided to come back after his hiatus. [1]
In 2016, Varga continued on the World Cup team and with Bryant advanced to A finals in all three races, finishing as high as fourth place. In 2018, Varga formed a C-2 boat with Connor Fitzpatrick. They won the C-2 1000m B final in their first World Cup event in Szeged, Hungary and the following week they advanced to the A final. At the World Championships, they placed sixth in the B final of the C-2 1000m.
In 2019, Varga and Fitzpatrick broke the National record at the 2019 World Championships in the C-2 1000m to 3:28.742 in semifinals before finishing second in the B final (11th overall). [1] In May 2021, Varga along with Fitzpatrick were named to their first Olympic team in the C-2 1000 event. [2] [3]
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