1936 Berlin Highlights
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… Adding to the insult, an “imperfect” Hungarian amputee also won Gold! To top it off, Ilona Elek, who became the first woman to win two Olympic gold medals in the individual foil competition was half Jewish!
- The now tiny Hungary finishes third in overall Gold and takes home 43 total medals!
- Hungarian Fencing Continues its Dominance!
- 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!
- Hungary takes 3 individual wrestling Golds!
Medal
Name
Event
Kabos Endre
Individual Fencing / vívás kard egyéni
Elek Ilona
Individual Fencing / vívás tőr egyéni
Gerevich Aladár (Gerei Aladár)
Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
Rajcsányi László
Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
Dr. Rajczy Imre
Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
Kovács Pál
Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
Berczelly Tibor
Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
Kabos Endre
Team Fencing / vívás kard csapat
Molnár István
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Bródy György
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Brandy Jenő
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Halassy Olivér (Haltmayer Olivér)
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Homonnai Márton (Hlavacsek Márton)
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Bozsi Mihály
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Kutasy György
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Hazai Kálmán
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Sárkány Miklós
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Tarics Sándor
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Németh János
Team Waterpolo / vizilabda csapat
Csik Ferenc
Swimming freestyle relay / úszás 100m gyors
Harangi Imre
Boxing, Lightweight / ökölvívás 60kg
Csák Ibolya
Highjump / magasugrás
Kárpáti Károly (Kellner Károly)
Wrestling / birkózás szabadfogás 66 kg
Lőrincz Márton
Wrestling / birkózás kötöttfogás 56 kg
Zombori Ödön (Zanich, Janicsek)
Wrestling / birkózás szabadfogás 56 kg
Berzsenyi Ralph dr. (Beusterien Erich)
Shooting / sportlövészet kisöbű puska fekvő
Abay-Nemes Oszkár
Swimming freestyle relay / 4×200 m gyors
Gróf Ödön
Swimming freestyle relay / 4×200 m gyors
Lengyel Árpád
Swimming freestyle relay / 4×200 m gyors
Csík Ferenc
Swimming freestyle relay / 4×200 m gyors
Gerevich Aladár
Individual Fencing / vívás kard egyéni
Palotás József
Wrestling / birkózás kötöttfogás 79 kg
Platthy József
Equestrian / lovaglás dijugratás
Csillik Margit
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Mészáros Gabriella
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Tóth Judit (Gamauf Gyuláné)
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Tőrös Olga
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Nagy Margit (Sándorné)
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Voit Eszter (Völgyi Eszter)
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Madary Ilona
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Kalocsai Margit
Team Gymnastics / torna összetett csapat
Szollás László dr.
Figure Skating – pairs / műkorcsolya páros
Rotter Emília
Figure Skating – pairs / műkorcsolya páros
Related
Featured 1936 Olympians
Featured Olympian, Halassy Oliver:(b. 1909 – d. 1946)
A Lesson in
Tenacity: Amputee Wins 2nd Gold!
Oliver Halassy embodies the Hungarian Sporting Spirit that has led to her incredible historic Olympic performance. 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).
Oliver Halassy is not the only “handicapped” Hungarian Olympic Medalist. Shooter Karoly Takacs, the “Right-Handed Shooter Who Won With His Left Hand,”… became the first repeat winner of the rapid-fire pistol event, taking Gold Medals in 1948 and 1952. A Sergeant in the Hungarian Army, Takács lost his right hand when a grenade malfunctioned. He was unable to compete in 1940 and 1944 as the war interrupted the Olympic Games and first competed at the age of 38. Fencer Rejto Ildiko, a triumphant “handicapped” icon, and winner of 7 Olympic Medals (two Gold), was still a Champion in 1999! Rejto participated in FIVE Olympics – 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 – and won 7 medals!
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.
