János Garay (fencer)
Jànos Garay | |
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Born | 23 February 1889 |
Died | 5 March 1945 Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Austria | (aged 56)
Nationality | Hungarian |
Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's Fencing | ||
Representing Hungary | ||
1928 Amsterdam | Team sabre | |
1924 Paris | Team sabre | |
1924 Paris | Individual sabre |
János Garay (23 February 1889 – 5 March 1945) was a Hungarian fencer,[1] and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s.[2][3]
Personal[]
Garay had two children: Jànos, a water polo player and Mària, a swimmer. He was also father-in-law to Valéria Gyenge.[4]
Fencing career[]
Hungarian Championship[]
Garay was the Hungarian national sabre champion in 1923.[5]
European and World Championships[]
In 1925[5] and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal. He won the team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships.
Olympics[]
He won silver medal for team saber at the 1924 Paris Olympics.[6]
He also won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.[6]
Concentration Camp and Death[]
He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary to a concentration camp after Germany occupied the country in 1944.[5]
Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, shortly before the end of World War II.[7][8]
Hall of Fame[]
Garay, who was Jewish, was inducted in 1990 into The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel.[9][10][11]
See also[]
- List of select Jewish fencers
References[]
- ^ http://www.mob.hu/cgi-bin/index.php?file=belso/memorian.html Archived 20 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Uc_Hilal: Jews In Sports". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ "János Garay Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ "János Garay". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ a b c János Garay Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- ^ a b "János Garay Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900888.
- ^ Continuing Persecution
- ^ "Janos Garay". 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2010.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
External links[]
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- Hungarian male sabre fencers
- Jewish fencers
- Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
- Olympic fencers of Hungary
- Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
- Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Hungarian people who died in Mauthausen concentration camp
- Austro-Hungarian Army officers
- Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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- Hungarian people executed in Nazi concentration camps
- Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust