Hilda Pinter
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Hilda Pinter is a Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 sprint canoer
Canoe racing
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 who competed in the mid 1950s. She won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon
Mâcon
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She was born on September 14, 1933 in Budapest,Hungary.She left Hungary in 1956.She married in Basel/Switzerland in 1957 Franz Salamon,Dr.-Ing.(Franz A.Salamon,Ph.D.,Dr.-Ing.,Biography:born on February 8, 1932 in Budapest,Hungary. Father Austrian, mother Hungarian. Deported to Bavaria/Germany in 1944.Returned to Hungary with his parents in 1946.Maturity at the "Fazekas Mihàly Gimnazium" in Budapest in 1950. Diploma from the Budapesti Müszaki Egyetem as Mechanical Engineer in 1954. Electrical Engineer in 1956.Escaped from Hungary in November 1956 after the revolution.He married in Basel,Switzerland in June 1957, with Pintér Hilda, Kayak-2 world champion in 1954 in Macon/France. Worked in Switzerland from 1956 to 1960.Worked at SHELL in The Hague/The Netherlands from 1960 to 1962.Worked for Du Pont de Nemours in the USA and in Europe from 1962 to 1990.Started as Technical Rep.,followed as Techn.Manager,Product Mgr.,Customer Service Mgr.,Director of Corporate Planning, Corporate Waste Management.Inventor of the "Fishtail Guide", for the waste free production of the TEFLON PTFE unsintered tape.From 1990,he is working as independent consultant.CEO of DINATAR S.A. in1995 in Geneva..President and CEO of TEDE S.A./Zug/Switzerland in 2004.He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.) She gave birth to their son Jörg in Basel in 1958.She became Swiss in 1972.She won the K-1 Swiss Championship in 1968.Since 1979 she is living in Geneva/Switzerland.
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