Georgina Toth
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Birth name | Georgina Tóth |
Nationality | Hungary Cameroon |
Born | Dunaújváros, Fejér, Hungary | March 10, 1982
Sport | |
Country | Cameroon |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Hammer throw, Weight throw |
College team | NAU Lumberjacks |
Retired | 2009[1] |
Achievements and titles | |
Olympic finals | 2008 Summer Olympics |
Regional finals | 2008 African Athletics Championships: 4th place |
Personal bests |
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Georgina Toth (born March 10, 1982) is a Hungarian-born naturalized Cameroonian hammer thrower. Toth has dual citizenship in Hungary and Cameroon, and competed for Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]
Toth attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she competed on the women's track and field team, and graduated in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in business administration-finance and marketing.[3]
Internationally, she finished fourth at the 16th 2008 African Championships in Athletics. Toth holds the national record for Hungary and Cameroon in the weight throw with 19.69 m (64 ft 7 in), and the national record for Cameroon in the hammer throw with 67.42 m (221 ft 2+1⁄4 in).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Georgina Toth. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-09-21.
- ^ Georgina Tóth Archived September 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-09-21.
- ^ Lumberjacks in London Archived 2014-01-26 at the Wayback Machine. North Arizona University. Retrieved on 2014-09-21.
- ^ "Georgina Toth". Tilastopaja OY athlete database. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
External links
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Categories:
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Dunaújváros
- Hungarian emigrants to Cameroon
- Cameroonian hammer throwers
- Hungarian female hammer throwers
- Cameroonian female athletes
- Hungarian female athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Cameroon
- 21st-century Hungarian sportswomen
- Hungarian athletics biography stubs
- Central African athletics biography stubs
- Cameroonian sportspeople stubs