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I was born in Nyíregyháza. As a modern pentathlete, I became an Olympic champion in 1968 and later contributed to the international success of Hungarian pentathlon as a coach.
Birth name
Born
1940-09-17, Nyíregyháza
Deceased
2010-07-28, Budapest
Education
Eötvös Loránd University
College of Physical Education
Profession
Coach
Scientific Degree
University degree
Awards
Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2005)
From 1955 to 1970, he competed in modern pentathlon and épée fencing as an athlete for Budapesti Honvéd. Between 1962 and 1970, he was a member of the Hungarian national team in both sports. During the 1960s, he was part of the highly successful modern pentathlon team alongside András Balczó, István Móna, and Ferenc Török, winning four world championship titles and an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Summer Games. His best individual result was a fourth-place finish at the 1966 World Championships in Melbourne.
He retired from active competition in 1970.
In 1968, he earned a law degree from Eötvös Loránd University, and in 1972, a coaching diploma in modern pentathlon and fencing from the College of Physical Education. After retiring, he worked as a lawyer, while also serving as a coach and later head of the fencing division at Budapesti Honvéd.
He went on to hold several leadership roles in sports: he was a board member of the Hungarian Fencing Federation, supervised riding and fencing training for the national team, and later became épée team manager for the Hungarian national fencing team. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, secretary of the Hungarian Olympic Champions’ Club from 1993, and vice president between 1997 and 2004.
Among his students were Olympic champion Tímea Nagy and his stepson, Krisztián Kulcsár, Olympic silver medalist and world champion.
The Dohány Street synagogue is one of Budapest’s touristic highlights as it is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The synagogue was built in 1859 in the Moorish style and it can seat 3000 people. Its huge size demonstrates the significance and the high economic and cultural standards of the Budapest Jewry of the age.
The temple was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a German architect, professor of the Vienna Academy. The clerk of works was the architect Ignác Wechselmann (1828-1903) who later bequeathed his entire wealth to the Institute of the Blind. After Förster left, Frigyes Feszl, the famous architect of the Budapest Vigadó designed the temple’s inner sanctum. The official consecration of the synagogue took place on 6 September 1859. The interior of the synagogue is 1200 square metres, the towers are 44 metres high. There are 1497 seats for men downstairs and 1472 for women in the galleries, altogether the seating capacity of the flat-ceilinged inner space is nearly 3000 people.
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