Additionally, he won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1994, 2001) and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1995, K-2 200 m: 1998).

Magyar also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-1 500 m event at Atlanta in 1996.

Magyar graduated from the University of Physical Education and Sport in Bacau, Romania in 2002.

After his retirement, Magyar began coaching elite teen athletes.

He has coached a group of individually selected athletes from around the country, 15 of whom earned places on the National Romanian Junior Team.