Móric "Mór" Kóczán (Hungarian: [ˈmoːr ˈkoːt͡saːn]; also known under the pseudonym Miklós Kovács; 8 January 1885 – 30 July 1972)[1] was a Slovak–Hungarian athlete and Calvinist pastor.

[2] Following World War I, after the borders of Hungary were redrawn, Kóczán, together with hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians, found himself in the newly created Czechoslovakia.

He spent his childhood in Kocs before moving to Pápa, where he studied in the Reformed high school and later in the Theological Academy, earning his pastoral degree in 1908.

[1] In 1910 Kóczán switched to Ferencvárosi TC, for them he won the inaugural javelin throw event of the Hungarian Athletics Championships in 1911, which was followed by another four titles (1912–14, 1918).

[5] Kóczán participated at the 1912 Summer Olympics under the pseudonym Mór Kovács to avoid conflicts with the church, which opposed his sporting activities.

[12][13][14] In 1914, after seven years of pastoral service in Csallóközaranyos, and shorter spells in Diósjenő (1909) and Diósförgepatony (now Orechová Potôň; March 1910–May 1910), Kóczán was relocated to Csilizradvány (now Čiližská Radvaň).

[3][16] Kóczán was deported[4] with his family from Czechoslovakia to Hungary in September 1948; subsequently, they settled in Alsógöd (now part of Göd), a village in the Pilis Mountains, where he served as a pastor until 1952.