Attila Keresztes

Attila Keresztes medal table
fencing
United States (after 1956) Hungary (until 1956)
Olympic games
gold	Melbourne 1956	Saber crew
World championships
gold	Rome 1955	Saber crew

Attila Keresztes (born January 18, 1928 in Budapest , † September 27, 2002 there ) was an American - Hungarian saber fencer .

Life

Attila Keresztes became world champion with the team in Rome in 1955 . At the Olympic Games in 1956 , he reached the finals unbeaten with the team in Melbourne , in which they remained undefeated and took first place. Together with Aladár Gerevich , Jenő Hámori , Dániel Magay , Rudolf Kárpáti and Pál Kovács , Keresztes became Olympic champion . After the games, he sat down with Jenő Hámori and Dániel Magay in the United States , where he was multiple national champion in individual and with the team. In 1964 he was part of the US squad at the Olympic Games in Tokyo , where he reached seventh place with the team. In the individual competition he was eliminated in the second round.

Keresztes was an engineer , but after drinking problems he began working as a taxi driver in the States. In the late 1990s he returned to Budapest, now in a wheelchair, after the Ministry of Sports offered him medical care, an apartment and a pension. He died in 2002 in his native Budapest.

Web links

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