János Garay (fencer) explained
János Garay (23 February 1889 – 21 April 1945) was a Jewish Hungarian fencer,[1] and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s. Gaining international recognitionin Olympic sabre competition, he distinguished himself winning a gold medal in 1928 in Amsterdam, and a silver and bronze medal in 1924 in Paris.[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.[4]
Fencing career
Hungarian Championship
Garay was the Hungarian national sabre champion in 1923.[5]
European and World Championships
In 1925 and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal. He won the team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships. The European Championships were predecessor to the World Championships, first held in 1937.[6]
Olympics
Recognized internationally as a skilled and knowledgeable fencer, Garay served as an Olympic referee and judge for the fencing competition in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.[7]
1928
He won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.
1924
He won a silver medal in team saber and a bronze medal in individual sabre at the 1924 Paris Olympics.[8]
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.
At Mauthausen concentration camp, where he had been taken, he was a prominent detainee and a Nazi hostage in their negotiations with the Soviets. He was kept in a very small bunker and died in May 1945 as “death case # 14271,” his death officially declared as due to cardiac insufficiency.[7] [9] [10]
Hall of Fame
Garay, who was Jewish, was inducted in 1990 into The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel.[11] [12] [13]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság. www.mob.hu . https://web.archive.org/web/20060620023648/http://www.mob.hu/cgi-bin/index.php?file=belso%2Fmemorian.html . 20 June 2006.
- Web site: Uc_Hilal: Jews In Sports . Jewsinsports.org . 26 March 2010.
- Web site: János Garay Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185143/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/janos-garay-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports-reference.com . 26 March 2010.
- Web site: János Garay . Olympedia . 26 October 2021.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185143/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/janos-garay-1.html János Garay Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- Web site: Janos Garay. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. May 18, 2023.
- Web site: Janos Garay. Olympedia. May 18, 2023.
- Web site: János Garay Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185143/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/janos-garay-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 26 March 2010 . sports-reference.com.
- Book: Schaffer. Kay . Smith. Sidonie . The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. 2000. Rutgers University Press. 978-0-8135-2820-5. 60–62.
- 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 . 24 July 2018 . Sports Reference.
- Book: Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists . Taylor, Paul . Sussex Academic Press . 2004 . 9781903900888 .
- https://web.archive.org/web/20030818200655/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd078.htm Continuing Persecution
- Web site: Janos Garay . 25 January 2010 . 26 March 2010 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20101005063454/http://jewishsports.net/BioPages/JanosGaray.htm . 5 October 2010 .
