Vojtech Neményi Explained

Vojtech Neményi
Headercolor:lightsteelblue
Nickname:Béla
Nationality:Slovak
Club:KAC Košice (until 1923, 1925-1930)
APK Praha (1923-25)
Coach:Ľudovít Stahl
Sport:Water polo, swimming
Occupation:Civil engineer
Birth Date:1 August 1899
Birth Place:Kassa, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today Košice, Slovakia)
Death Place:Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Vojtech Neményi (1 August 1899  - 7 April 1945) was a Olympic Slovak water polo player and swimmer.[1] He represented Czechoslovakia, and competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2]

Biography

Vojtech Neményi was born in 1899, in Košice into the family of an East Slovak lawyer and sports official of Jewish origin, Dr. Vilmos Neményi.[3] He started playing sports together with his younger brother Gejza in the Košice club Kassai Atléticai Club (KAC). The KAC club was a member of Hungarian sports associations until 1923, when the Slovak county Czechoslovak amateur swimming association was established.

After the First World War, he studied technology in Prague and from 1923 transferred to the Prague swimming club APK Praha. As a member of APK, he competed in 1924 with the water polo players representative team at the Olympic Games in Paris. After finishing his studies in 1925, he returned to Košice, where he did business in the automobile industry.

He died under unclear circumstances in the first half of 1945.[4] According to one version, he was killed while escaping from a transport to concentration camp Engerau.[5] He is buried in the cemetery in Petržalka.[6]

Honours

Olympic Games

Slovak Championship

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vojtech Neményi . Olympedia . 24 November 2020.
  2. Vojtech Neményi Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418063517/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/vojtech-nemenyi-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 19 November 2019.
  3. Web site: Archiv Univerzity Karlovy, fond Matriky Německé univerzity v Praze, inventární číslo 3, Matrika doktorů německé Karlo-Ferdinandovy univerzity v Praze / Německé univerzity v Praze (1904–1924), strana 882. 15 July 2019. Archiv Univerzity Karlovy.
  4. Web site: Vojtech Neményi. Yad Vashem. 10 July 2023.
  5. Web site: Bučka Peter. Sportovci židovského původu na olympijských hrách v barvách československé trikolóry. Židovské listy. 2016.
  6. Web site: Ladislav Barabás. Grave of Vojtech Neményi. Society for military memorials. 2022-10-02.
  7. mnt3 . dmy .
  8. https://www.kosiceonline.sk/prvorepublikove-sportove-plavanie Prvorepublikové športové plávanie