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Highlights The now tiny Hungary finishes third in overall Gold! Kabos Endre wins 2nd and 3rd Gold Medals and a bronze! Kovacs Pal wins first of 6 Gold Medals! Amputee Waterpoloist Halassy Oliver wins 2nd Gold! Gold Medalists: Csik Ferenc (1913-1945), 100m freestyle (also won bronze in the 4x200m freestyle relay) Elek Ilona (1907-)Fencing 1st Gold Harangi Imre (1913-1979), Boxing, Lightweight Kabos Endre (1906-1944), Fencing 2nd Gold Kadarne Csak Ibolya (1915-), Highjump Karpati Karoly (1906-), Wrestling: Lightweight Lorincz Marton (1911-1969), Wrestling: bantamweight Zombori Odon (1906-), Wrestling Men's Team Hungary - Fencing/kardvivas: 5th Gold Berczelly Tibor (1912-), 1st Gold Gerevich (Gerei) Aladar (1910-), 2nd Gold of 6! Kabos Endre (1906-1944), 3rd Gold Kovacs Pal (1912-), 1st Gold Dr. Rajczy Imre (1911-1978), Rajcsanyi Laszlo (1907-) 1st Gold Men's Team Hungary - Waterpolo/Vizilabda: 2nd Gold Brandy Jeno (1913-1980), Brody Gyorgy (1908-1967), 2nd Gold Bozsi Mihaly (1911-), Halassy Oliver (1909-1946), 2nd Gold Hazai Kalman (1913-), Hommonai Marton (1905-1969), 2nd Gold Kutasy Gyorgy (1910-1977), Molnar Istvan (1913-), Nemeth Janos (1906-), 2nd Gold Sarkany Miklos (1908-), 2nd Gold Tarics Sandor (1913-)      Click for larger images See all 1936 medalists (in Hungarian)

The 1936 Berlin Olympics... are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games, even among the German people, was the legendary African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens... A Hungarian Amputee added to the insult by winning Gold! Featured Olympian, Csik Ferenc: (b. Kaposvár 12/12/1913, d. Sopron, 1945) Gave His Life Helping Others... This International Swimming Hall of Famer took 1936 gold (100m freestyle) and bronze (800m freestyle relay). He set  3 World Records (relays), 6 European Records (100m freestyle, 400m, 800m freestyle relays) and 13 Hungarian Records (100m, 200m freestyle, 100m, 200m breaststroke; relays); won 4 European Championships  (100m freestyle; freestyle relays); and 17 Hungarian Championships(100m, 200m freestyle; 100m, 200m breaststroke; 300m individual medley; 400m, 800m freestyle relays). A medical doctor, he died at the age of 32 in Sopron in an allied bombing raid while he was tending patients.. Featured Olympian, Kabos Endre: (b. November 5, 1906 - d. November 4, 1944) One of the World's Greatest Fencers Returns... Kabos began fencing after receiving a fencing outfit as a birthday present. Although he hid the outfit in his wardrobe, a friend found it and teased him. He enrolled in a fencing club to spite his friend the following day and went on to compete in two Olympiads for the Hungarian fencing team in the 1930s. A sabre specialist, he won four medals (three gold) during his Olympic career. At the 1932 Los Angeles Games, he won a gold medal in the team competition; Hungary defeated the United States (13-3), Italy (9-2), and Poland (9-1) in the finals. Kabos also medaled in the individual competition as he won five of nine matches to the win the bronze (he tied with Erwin Casmir of Germany for third but Kabos was awarded the medal because he received fewer touches in the finals). Kabos also won the individual sabre at the 1933 and 1934 World Championships Kabos returned to the Olympics four years later at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and dominated the competition. He won gold medals in both the team and individual events, winning 24 of 25 matches in the individual competition, while Hungary as a team went undefeated. Featured Olympian, Halassy Oliver: (b. 1909 - d. 1946) A Lesson in Tenacity: Amputee Wins Gold! The International Swimming Hall of Famer and Water Poloist Oliver Halassy won his 2nd Gold Medal despite the fact that one of his legs had been amputated below the knee following a streetcar accident. He also won 1928 silver and 1932 gold; European Championships: Gold (1500m freestyle); and 25 Hungarian Individual Swimming Titles (400m to 1500m freestyle).

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