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Bertalan Papp (born September 7, 1913 in Tiszaföldvár , † August 8, 1992 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sword fencer . He won two Olympic gold medals and was world champion twice.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , the Hungarian saber team consisted of four fencers who had won Olympic gold twelve years earlier: Tibor Berczelly , Aladár Gerevich , Pál Kovács and László Rajcsányi . Then there were Rudolf Kárpáti and Bertalan Papp. This very experienced team dominated the team competition and won gold in front of the Italians and the US fencers. Four years later, the Hungarian saber team competed in the same line-up at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 and fought their way to the final with clear victories, only the battle for gold against Italy only just went to the Hungarians.

At the 1953 World Championships in Brussels , the Hungarian saber team also appeared in the line-up of Berczelly, Gerevich, Kárpáti, Kovács, Papp and Rajcsányi and won the title ahead of the Italians. The following year , Rajcsányi, born in 1907, was no longer present at the World Championships in Luxembourg , but Dániel Magay, born in 1932, joined the team. The Hungarians won the title before the Poles, for Berczelly and Papp this was the last big competition.

In later years Papp also worked as an actor, stuntman and consultant in film productions.

literature

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

Web links

• Bertalan Papp in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fencing World Championships (men's saber) on sport-komplett.de
• Bertalan Papp in the Internet Movie Database (English)