Ileana Gyulai

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Ion Drîmbă and Ileana Gyulai

Ileana Gyulai (born June 12, 1946 in Cluj ) is a former Romanian foil fencer . She competed under three different names at four Olympic Games.

Names

The Hungarian-born Ileana Gyulai, born as Ilona Gyulai , entered the 1964 Olympic Games under her maiden name. After marrying the fencer Ion Drîmbă , she started as Ileana Drîmbă , at the 1968 Olympic Games . Her husband used a competition trip in 1969 to flee to the west. Then Ileana divorced him and started again at the 1972 Olympic Games under her maiden name. After her marriage to the soccer coach Emerich Jenei , she entered the 1976 Olympic Games as Ileana Jenei .

Athletic career

Ileana Gyulai finished fifth with the Romanian team at the 1964 Olympic Games. In 1965 the Romanians won silver behind the Soviet team at the World Championships .

In 1967 Ileana Drîmbă was a member of the Romanian team that won bronze behind the Hungarians and the Soviet female fencers. At the Olympic Games in 1968, the Soviet team won ahead of the Hungarians and Romanians. Drîmbă celebrated her greatest success at the 1969 World Championships in Havana . In the singles she won silver behind Jelena Nowikowa , the Romanian team won gold against the team from the Soviet Union. In the final of the 1970 World Championships , the Soviet Union again won against Romania.

Both at the 1972 Olympic Games and at the 1973 and 1974 World Championships , the Soviet female fencers faced the Hungarians in the finals. Gyulai won the bronze medal with the Romanian team. In 1976 she finished seventh with the team in her fourth Olympic participation.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

Commons : Ileana Gyulai  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The presentation follows Volker Kluge: The Chronicle III . Page 626, note 295
personal data
SURNAME Gyulai, Ileana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyulai, Ilona (Hungarian); Drîmbă, Ileana; Jenei, Ileana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian fencer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj