Árpád Bárány

Árpád Bárány medal table
fencing
Hungary
Olympic games
gold	Tokyo 1964	Epee team
World championships
silver	Paris 1957	Epee team
silver	Philadelphia 1958	Epee team
gold	Budapest 1959	Epee team
bronze	Gdansk 1963	Epee team

Árpád Bárány (born June 24, 1931 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian sword fencer .

successes

Árpád Bárány was world champion with the team in Budapest in 1959 . In 1957 in Paris and 1958 in Philadelphia , he also finished second with the team and third in Gdansk in 1963 . He took part in the Olympic Games twice: in 1960 in Rome , finishing fourth with the team, he just missed winning a medal. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , he entered the battle for the gold medal with the Hungarian team and, thanks to an 8: 3 success, was overItaly with István Kausz , Tamás Gábor , Zoltán Nemere and Győző Kulcsár thus Olympic champions . In 1958 he won the Hungarian championships in singles, he was also three times Hungarian champion with the team.

Web links

• Árpád Bárány in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Árpád Bárány at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)