István Énekes

The grave of István Énekes in Budapest on the Kerepesi temető

István Énekes (born February 20, 1911 in Budapest ; † January 2, 1940 there ) was a Hungarian boxer and Olympic champion.

István Énekes was a train conductor by profession and started for the Budapest Railway Sports Club Budapesti VSC . In 1930 he became European boxing champion in flyweight , having previously become national champion a year. Two years later he started at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won the gold medal in the same weight class. In 1934 he was again European champion , this time in the bantamweight division . He started 26 times for the Hungarian national team and won a total of four national titles. In the year of his Olympic victory he was awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit.

Énekes committed suicide in Budapest in January 1940. Reasons and circumstances are unclear. He is buried in the Kerepesi temető cemetery. A youth boxing tournament named after him is held in Hungary to commemorate him.

His younger brother Vilmós Énekes was also a boxer and was European flyweight champion in 1937 .

Web links

Commons : István Énekes - collection of images, videos and audio files

István Énekes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Boxing at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Flyweight. sports-reference.com, accessed April 28, 2014 .
Ferenc Takács: István Énekes. Hungarian Olympic Committee, accessed April 28, 2014 (Hungarian).

Individual evidence

↑ Énekes István. (No longer available online.) Sportolanemzet.hu, archived from the original on April 29, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2014 (Hungarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ The version of the Hungarian National Committee is that he had a nervous breakdown due to problems in his marriage and was hospitalized. There he jumped out of the window. It is unclear, however, when the Hungarian NOK distributed this version. According to other information, he is said to have committed suicide in order to avoid access by the secret police (not the Gestapo ). See: Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 134 .
↑ A múlt Énekes, a jelen Hegyi, a jövő…? - UtánpótlásSport. In: utanpotlassport.hu. June 14, 2020, accessed September 1, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Énekes, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1940
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Énekes István. (No longer available online.) Sportolanemzet.hu, archived from the original on April 29, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2014 (Hungarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] The version of the Hungarian National Committee is that he had a nervous breakdown due to problems in his marriage and was hospitalized. There he jumped out of the window. It is unclear, however, when the Hungarian NOK distributed this version. According to other information, he is said to have committed suicide in order to avoid access by the secret police (not the Gestapo ). See: Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 134 .

[3] A múlt Énekes, a jelen Hegyi, a jövő…? - UtánpótlásSport. In: utanpotlassport.hu. June 14, 2020, accessed September 1, 2015 .