Ágnes Bánfai

Ágnes Bánfai
Personal information
Nationality:	Hungary
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Society:	Budapesti Spartacus SC
Birthday:	June 8, 1947
Place of birth:	Budapest , Hungary
Size:	159 cm
Weight:	52 kg
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Medals
World championships bronze 1974 Varna team

Ágnes Bánfai (born June 8, 1947 in Budapest ; † August 20, 2020 in Kismaros) was a Hungarian gymnast .

Career

Bánfai, who started for the Budapesti Spartacus SC , made her international debut at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City . After a 14th place in the overall individual ranking, she reached fifth overall with the team. Two years later she started at the World Gymnastics Championships in 1970 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia , where she and the team reached sixth of eight places in the team ranking. In the all-around competition she finished in a shared 27th place. At the 1974 World Gymnastics Championships in Varna , she and Mónika Császár , Krisztina Medveczky , Monika Nagy , Márta Egervári and Zsuzsa Matulai won the bronze medal in the team standings behind the teams from the Soviet Union and the GDR. In the all-around competition she finished 31st, only one place in the back field.

After the end of her active sports career, Bánfai worked as a trainer at the Baross Imre Artistaképző Szakközépiskola Art School in Budapest .

Bánfai was married to the Hungarian saber fencer Tibor Pézsa .

Web links

• Ágnes Bánfai in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ágnes Bánfai in the database of Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1970 World Championships, Women's Teams 5-8. In: gymn-forum.net. December 14, 2001, accessed March 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 1970 World Championships, Women's AA. In: gymn-forum.net. February 2, 2004, accessed March 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 1974 World Championships, Women's Teams. In: gymn-forum.net. October 28, 2012, accessed March 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ 1974 World Championships, Women's AA. In: gymn-forum.net. January 31, 2004, accessed March 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Susanne Mani: A DREAM ARTIST COUPLE stops! In: circusharlekin.ch. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .