Béla Rajki

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Béla Rajki , also Béla Rajki-Reich (born February 2, 1909 in Budapest , † July 20, 2000 there ) was a Hungarian coach for water polo and swimming .

Béla Rajki coached the Hungarian national water polo team in 1952 and 1956, the Olympic champions in water polo. In 1972 the team he supervised won silver. In 1948 and 1952 he was the head coach of the Hungarian swimmer team. In particular the water polo tournament in 1956 and especially the game between the Hungarians and the Soviet Union team was the focus of worldwide interest. Rajki had expressly urged his team to play fair, but an unusually brutal match developed .

In addition to his coaching activities in high-performance sports, Rajki also wrote standard works in the field of swimming and water polo, produced educational films and published series of educational pictures, to which he contributed the underwater photos himself. In 1996 he was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame .

Publications

  • The technique of sport swimming. Berlin, Sportverlag, 1956.
  • The water polo game. Budapest, Corvina, 1959. 127 + 13 picture plate pages

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SURNAME Rajki, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rajki Empire, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian water polo coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2000
Place of death Budapest