Ferenc Pataki

Ferenc Pataki medal table
do gymnastics
Hungary Hungary
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1948 London	Floor exercise
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1948 London	Horse jump
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1948 London	Team all-around gymnastics

Ferenc Pataki (born September 18, 1917 in Budapest , † April 25, 1988 there ) was a Hungarian gymnast.

Life

Coming from a poorer family, Pataki discovered his passion for gymnastics at the age of 12 while visiting a circus. He was fascinated by the acrobatic movements - "somersaults and dizzying jumps" - that he made the decision to become a gymnast himself.

At the beginning of his career he took part in several national competitions in Hungary and even won the national championship in gymnastics in 1939, but had to give up his sports career at times due to the Second World War .

Nonetheless, after the end of the war in 1948, he won the gold medal in floor gymnastics at the Summer Olympics in London, as well as a bronze medal in the horse jump and in the gymnastics team all- round competition. At the following Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 , he took part again, but remained medalless. Pataki ended his sports career in 1953 and then taught acrobatics at the Hungarian national circus school. He died in 1988 after a serious illness at the age of 70.

The grave of Ferenc Pataki in the Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest

Sporting successes

Olympic champion in men's floor exercise in 1948
third place in the men's horse jumping at the 1948 Summer Olympics
third place in the overall Hungarian men's team at the 1948 Summer Olympics
sixth place in the overall Hungarian men's team at the 1952 Summer Olympics
seventh place at the 1954 World Athletics Championships in men's floor exercise
Thirty-six times Hungarian champion

Web links

Ferenc Pataki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Pataki Ferenc olimpiai bajnok tornász 95 éve született. MTVA, accessed April 27, 2013 (Hungarian).

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Pataki, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1988
Place of death	Budapest

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