Éva Sebők-Szalay

Éva Sebők-Szalay
portrait
Date of birth	March 26, 1949
place of birth	Halmaj, Hungary
date of death	4th July 2011
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary
size	1.83 m
position	attack
societies
1963–1967 1968–1978 1978–1984 1984–1985 1986 1991–1993 1996–2001	Miskolci VSC Nim-Se Budapest Vasas Izzó / Tungsram Budapest Olimpia Teodora Ravenna Milangaz Istanbul Impulse SC Mafilm SC
National team
236 times	Hungary national team
successes
1969, 1971–1978, 1980, 1982–1984 1969–1973, 1976–1980, 1982 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1980 1981 1981 1985 1985 1986	Hungarian champion Hungarian cup winner 4th place World championship in Bulgaria 5th place European championship in Italy 5th place Olympic Games Munich Winner European championship silver European championship in Yugoslavia 4th place Olympic Games Montreal 13th place World championship in the Soviet Union 4th place European championship in France Winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup 4th place Olympic Games Moscow Winner European Cup Winners' Cup Bronze European Championship in Bulgaria Italian champion Italian cup winner Turkish runner-up
As of March 30, 2017

Éva Sebők-Szalay (born March 26, 1949 in Halmaj ; † July 4, 2011 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian volleyball player and coach.

Éva Sebők-Szalay played 236 times for the Hungarian national team . She took part in the Olympic Games three times, placing fifth in Munich in 1972 , fourth in Montreal in 1976 and fourth in Moscow in 1980 . At the European Championships, the attacker won silver in Yugoslavia in 1975 and bronze in Bulgaria in 1981 .

With her clubs Nim-Se and Vasas Izzó / Tungsram Budapest she was Hungarian champion 13 times and won the national cup 11 times. She also won the European Champion Clubs 'Cup in 1973 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1980 and 1981 . In 1985 Sebők-Szalay became Italian champion and cup winner with Olimpia Teodora Ravenna . A year later she reached the Turkish runner- up with Milangaz Istanbul .

From 1985 to 1990 Sebők-Szalay coached her former team Tungsram SC. From 1991 to 1993 she was a player-coach at Impuls SC. In 1994 she founded the PRSC Budapest association, where she was also a youth coach for many years. In 2001 she was named Hungary's best volleyball player of the century . In 2011 Sebők-Szalay died after a long illness.

Web links

• Éva Sebők-Szalay in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at PRSC Budapest (Hungarian)