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János Garay (fencer)

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Jànos Garay
Personal details
Born (1889-02-23)February 23, 1889
Budapest, Hungary
Died 5 March 1945 (1945-03-06) (aged 56)
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Austria
Nationality Hungarian
The native form of this personal name is Garay János. This article uses the Western name order.


|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" align=center ! colspan="3" | Men's Fencing

|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan="3" class="adr" | Competitor for  Hungary

|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Gold medal – first place|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1928 Amsterdam || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Team sabre

|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Silver medal – second place|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1924 Paris || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Team sabre

|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Bronze medal – third place|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1924 Paris || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Individual sabre János Garay (23 February 1889 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 March 1945 in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Oberösterreich, Austria) was a Hungarian fencer,[1] and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s.[2][3]

Personal[]

Garay had two children: Jànos, a water polo player and Mària, a swimmer. He was also father-in-law to Valéria Gyenge.

Fencing career[]

Hungarian Championship[]

Garay was the Hungarian national sabre champion in 1923.[4]

European and World Championships[]

In 1925[4] and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal. He won the team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships.

Olympics[]

He won silver medal for team saber at the 1924 Paris Olympics.[5]

He also won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.[5]

Concentration Camp and Death[]

He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary to a concentration camp after Germany occupied the country in 1944.[4]

Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, shortly before the end of World War II.[6][7]

Hall of Fame[]

Garay, who was Jewish, was inducted in 1990 into The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel.[8][9][10]

References[]

  1. ↑ http://www.mob.hu/cgi-bin/index.php?file=belso/memorian.html Archived 2006-06-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Uc_Hilal: Jews In Sports". Jewsinsports.org. http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=19. Retrieved March 26, 2010. 
  3. ↑ "János Garay Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/janos-garay-1.html. Retrieved March 26, 2010. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 János Garay Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "János Garay Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/janos-garay-1.html. Retrieved March 26, 2010. 
  6. ↑ Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=nMzYdZpk8qMC&pg=PA61&dq=holocaust+%22After+the+games%22&hl=en&ei=N7I_TbCOBYT68AaBu7WjBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=holocaust%20%22After%20the%20games%22&f=false. 
  7. ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65. Retrieved 24 July 2018. 
  8. ↑ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&pg=PA34&dq=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+janos+garay&hl=en&ei=kFCcTsH2D8je0QGVx9D9Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Jews%20and%20the%20Olympic%20Games%22%20janos%20garay&f=false. 
  9. ↑ Continuing Persecution
  10. ↑ "Janos Garay". January 25, 2010. Archived from the original on October 5, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101005063454/http://jewishsports.net/BioPages/JanosGaray.htm. Retrieved March 26, 2010. 

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