Antal Szendey
Antal Szendey (born March 7, 1915 in Pesterzsébet ; † May 6, 1994 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian rower who was European champion in 1935 and 1947 and won an Olympic bronze medal in 1948.
Athletic career
The Hungarian eighth had already won the European championship in 1933 and 1934 . In 1935 in Berlin , Antal Szendey also rowed into eighth, who rowed the third title for Hungary in a row. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the Hungarian eighth won his preliminary run ahead of the Italians, in the final the Hungarians took fifth place.
In 1937 at the European Championships in Amsterdam Hugó Ballya , Antal Szendey, Frigyes Hollósi and László Szabó from last year's eighth competed in the four without a helmsman and won the bronze medal behind the Germans and the Swiss. The following year, Ballya, Szabó and Szendey returned to eighth place and received the silver medal at the European Championships in Milan behind the Germans and ahead of the Italians .
At the first European Championships after the Second World War in Lucerne in 1947, the two-man with helmsman Antal Szendey and Béla Zsitnik with helmsman Szaniszlo Latinovits won in front of the boats from Italy and Denmark. The following year, Szendey and Zsitnik competed at the 1948 Olympic Games in London with their new helmsman Róbert Zimonyi . In the second run, the Hungarians finished third behind the Italians and the Danes, but then won their repechage and the semi-finals. In the final, the boats from the second run met again. The Danes won with a twelve second lead over the Italians, the Hungarians were third, thirteen seconds behind the Italians.
Web links
- Antal Szendey in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ European Championships in eighth at sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 858f
- ↑ European championships in four without a helmsman at sport-komplett.de
- ↑ European championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 104
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szendey, Antal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pesterzsébet |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1994 |
| Place of death | Budapest |