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Hungarians in the Olympics
1960, Rome

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Highlights

Fencing Legend Gerevich Aladar wins RECORD 6th CONSECUTIVE GOLD!
 Fencing Great, Kovacs Pal, wins 7th Medal (6th Gold)!
 Another Fencing Great, Karpati Rudolf, wins 6th Gold!
 Deszo Gyarmati wins an unprecendented 5th medal at his fifth consecutive Olympics!
 Legendary High Jumper Iolanda Balas takes Gold! (Competing for Rumania)
 Wrestler Polyak Imre sets Olympic Record with 3rd consecutive Silver!
 Men's Soccer Team Hungary takes Bronze

Gold Medalists:

Karpati Rudolf  (1920-), Fencing 5th Gold!
Nemeth Ferenc (1936-), Modern Pentathlon
Parti Janos (1932-), Canoe C1 1000m
Torok Gyula (1938-), Boxing
Iolanda Balas (1936-), High Jump

Men's Team Hungary - Fencing/Kardvivas: 9th Gold

    Delneky Gabor (1932-),
    Gerevich Aladar (1910-), RECORD 6th Consecutive Gold! Not matched until Sydney 2000!
    Horvath Zoltan (1937-),
    Karpati Rudolf (1920-), 6th Gold!
    Kovacs Pal (1912-), 6th Gold!
    Mendelenyi Tamas (1936-)

Men's Team Hungary - Modern Pentathlon 2nd Gold

    Balczo Andras (1938-), 1st Gold!
    Nagy Imre (1933-),
    Nemeth Ferenc (1936-)

See all 1960 medalists (in Hungarian)

Featured Olympian, Iolanda Balas:
(b. 12/12/1936 Transylvania, d. )

Dominated like no other...
Iolanda Balas (Balazs) completely dominated women's high jumping between 1957 and 1967. Balas, a Rumanian citizen of Hungarian origin born in Transylvania in 1936, was married to her coach and fellow high jumper Ion Soeter (he died in 1987). She is now a leading international official. Iolanda Balas occupies a special niche in athletics history, a class apart.  For a whole decade she went unbeaten winning an incredible 140 consecutive competitions and breaking the world record 14 times, mostly her own. Her 1961 record of 1.91 metres remained unbeaten for ten years.  She captured Olympic titles in 1960 and 1964 by huge margins, and such was her supremacy that at the time she cleared 1.91m no other woman had gone higher than 1.78m. Some of her luckless contemporaries complained that they had no chance against her because she was so very tall (1.85m, or nearly 6ft 1in) with particularly long legs even for that height. But that physical advantage was largely cancelled out by her inability to master the more efficient straddle and western roll techniques of the pre-Fosbury Flop era. She explained: "My style is quite obsolete but it suits my body structure." 

Read more at the International Association of Athletics Federations or at the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Heroes

Featured Olympian, Kovacs Pal:
(b. 12/12/1936 Transylvania (annexed by Rumania), d. )

Winner of 7 Olympic Medals!
Member of the Hungarian Sabre team that won gold at Berlin, London, Helsinki, Melbourne and Rome. He also won individual gold in '52, bronze in '48. He was World Sabre champion in 1937 and 1953. He later became president of the Hungarian Fencing Federation.

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