Great Olympians

Biographies - GYA


Gyáni János

B. 1959-02-25, Gyula, Hungary
Judo
1980 1984 1988 HP
Men's Half-Middleweight (-78 kg) R1 497.241
Men's Middleweight (-86 kg) QF
497.241


Ileana Gyarfaș

B. 1932-01-08, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Gymnastics
1952 HP
Women's Individual All-Around 58th -
Women's Team All-Around 9th 40
Women's Team with Portable Apparatus 12th 10
Women's Floor Exercise 61st -
Women's Horse Vault 94th -
Women's Uneven Bars 67th -
Women's Balance Beam 39th -
50.00004


Gyarmati Andrea

B. 1954-04-15, Budapest, Hungary
Aquatics - Swimming (1 silver, 1 bronze)
1968 1972 HP
Women's 100 metres Backstroke fifth silver 5000
Women's 200 metres Backstroke R1:12th 40
Women's 100 metres Butterfly fifth bronze 3560
Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay fifth fourth 650
Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay 8th 64
9314


Gyarmati Béla

B. 1942-03-05, Kispest, Hungary
Fencing
1964 HP
Men's Foil, Individual 7th/8th 82
82


Gyarmati Dezsö

B. 1927-10-23, Miskolc, Hungary; D. 2013-08-18
Waterpolo (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 HP
team silver gold gold bronze gold 25760
25760

One of the world's greatest waterpolo players. He could play as well with his left hand as with his right and at back as well as forward.
His wife Éva Székely won the 200m breaststroke in '52 (silver in '56). Their daughter Andrea won silver in backstroke and bronze in butterfly in '72, and then married Mihaly Hesz, gold in K1 in '68, silver in '64.


Gyarmati Olga

B. 1924-10-05, Debrecen, Hungary; D. 2013-10-27
Athletics (1 gold)
1948 1952 1956 HP
Women's High Jump 17th 6
Women's Long Jump gold 10th 11th 9846
Women's 200 m R1:5th 0.0078
Women's 4x100 m Relay R1:dnf 4.3
9856.3078

She did not return to Hungary after the 1956 games.


Emanuil Mihaylov Gyaurov

B. 1934-11-06, Sofia, Bulgaria
Basketball
1960 HP
Men's Team 16th 3.2
3.2


Written 2002-10-31 - last modified 2023-07-15

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