Miklós Sárkány
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1932 Los Angeles | Team competition | |
1936 Berlin | Team competition |
Miklós Sárkány (August 15, 1908 – December 20, 1998) was a Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
Career
He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest.
In 1932 he was part of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal. He played one match.
Four years later he won again the gold medal with the Hungarian team. At the Berlin Games he played three matches.
Sárkány was Jewish; he was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.[1][2]
He died in Vienna, Austria. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where also his ashes are buried.
See also
- List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of select Jewish water polo players
References
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871.
- ^ "The Nazi Olympics (Berlin 1936)—Jewish Athletes; Olympic Medalists". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved July 16, 2015. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
External links
- Miklós Sárkány at International Olympic Committee
- Miklós Sárkány at Olympic Channel
- Miklós Sárkány at Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian)
- Miklós Sárkány at Olympedia
- Miklós Sárkány at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- 1908 births
- 1998 deaths
- Hungarian male water polo players
- Hungarian Jews
- Water polo players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic water polo players of Hungary
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Burials at Feuerhalle Simmering
- Hungarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Hungarian water polo biography stubs