György Bródy

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Olympic medal record
Men's Water Polo
Gold medal – first place 1932 Los Angeles Team competition
Gold medal – first place 1936 Berlin Team competition
Olympic gold medalist hungarian water polo team (1932, Los Angeles) - György Bródy.jpg

György Bródy (21 July 1908 in Budapest – 5 August 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was a Hungarian water polo player.

Career[]

At the 1928 Summer Olympics he was a reserve player of the Hungarian water polo team, but did not compete in a match of the 1928 tournament.

He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

In 1932 he was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played two matches as goalkeeper.

Four years later he won the gold medal again with the Hungarian team. At the Berlin Games he played six matches as goalkeeper.

Bródy was Jewish; he was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.[1]

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References[]

  1. ^ "The Nazi Olympics (Berlin 1936)—Jewish Athletes; Olympic Medalists". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2011.

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