Béla Zulawszky Explained

Béla Zulawszky Vojtech Zulawszky
Nationality:	Slovak^[1]
Birth Date:	23 October 1869
Birth Place:	Trebišov, Austria-Hungary (today Slovakia)
Death Date:	^[2]
Death Place:	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sport:	Fencing
Event:	Sabre Épée Foil
Club:	Magyar AC
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Béla Zulawszky (Slovak: Vojtech Zulawszky) (23 October 1869  - 27 October 1914) was a Slovak-Hungarian fencer.^[3] He won a silver medal in the individual sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[4] He was killed in action during World War I.^[5]

Biography

Béla Zulawszky graduated from university in 1897 and then became a gymnastics teacher at the military academy in Koszeg, Hungary. He was a member of the Magyar Atlétikai Club in Budapest and also taught fencing. Zulawszky competed at both the 1908 and 1912 Olympics in all three weapons, winning silver in individual sabre in 1908. He joined the Hungarian Army in 1912 as an officer, eventually becoming a major. He was killed in Sarajevo in the early days of World War I, in October 1914.^[6]

See also

• List of Olympians killed in World War I

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dejiny šermu na Slovensku. History of fencing in Slovakia. Slovak . slovak-fencing.sk. 7 September 2021.
2. Web site: Zulawski Béla, nemes. 2022. Névpont. 16 November 2023.
3. Web site: Béla Zulawszky . Olympedia . 25 March 2021.
4. Web site: Béla Zulawszky Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230938/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/zu/bela-zulawszky-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 4 April 2010 . sports-reference.com.
5. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 3 August 2015 . Sports Reference.
6. Web site: Béla Zulawszky . Olympedia . 25 March 2021.