Country: USA
Sport: Track and Field
Date of Birth: 06/28/1989
First Olympics: 2016, Rio
Kovacs is the reigning shot put world champion. He finished fourth at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials, just missing the final qualifying position for the London Games. A 2012 graduate of Penn State University, Kovacs lived and trained at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California before heading to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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