Height 1.79 m Sport Athletics Weight 62 kg | Name Tamas Kovacs Role Runner | |
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Born September 18, 1983 (age 41) ( 1983-09-18 ) |
Tamás Kovács (born 18 September 1983 in Hódmezővásárhely) is a Hungarian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 72nd with a time of 2:27:48.

Kovacs has a career best of 2:14:23 in the marathon, which he set in Italy in 2011. He has also run under 1:04 twice in the half marathon.
Kovacs attended High Point University in North Carolina, USA, where he competed in cross country and track & field from 2005-08. He set HPU records in the 3,000-meter, 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter and was 2008 Big South Conference champion in the 10,000-meter.
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