Béla Zsitnik

Béla Zsitnik (born December 17, 1924 in Győr , † January 12, 2019 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian rower who was European champion in 1947 and won an Olympic bronze medal in 1948.

Athletic career

At the first European championships after World War II 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.

Béla Zsitnik took in 1952 with the Hungarian roller to the Olympics part in Helsinki. After the Hungarians had occupied second place behind the Soviet eighth in the preliminary run, they were eliminated in third in the semifinals. Eight years later he also took part in the Olympic Games in Rome . There he finished fourth in the preliminary run with the four-man without a helmsman and was eliminated second in the repechage.

Béla Zsitnik's son Béla Zsitnik, Jr. took part as a rower in the 1972 Olympic Games and finished seventh with the Hungarian eighth.

Web links

Béla Zsitnik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ Zsitnik Béla is elment! (Message in Hungarian from January 13, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020)
↑ 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
↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 270f
↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 578

personal data
SURNAME	Zsitnik, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian rower
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Győr
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 2019
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Zsitnik Béla is elment! (Message in Hungarian from January 13, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020)

[2] European championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de

[3] Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 104

[4] Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 270f

[5] Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 578