István Osztrics

István Osztrics medal table
fencing
Hungary
Olympic games
gold	Munich 1972	Epee team
World championships
silver	Gothenburg 1973	Epee team
bronze	Budapest 1975	Sword
bronze	Budapest 1975	Epee team
gold	Hamburg 1978	Epee team

István Osztrics (born December 25, 1949 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian sword fencer .

successes

István Osztrics became world champion with the team in Hamburg in 1978 . In 1973 he took second place with her in Gothenburg and in 1975 in Budapest third place. In 1975 he also won bronze in singles. He took part in the Olympic Games three times : at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich he entered the battle for the gold medal with the Hungarian team and, thanks to an 8: 4 win over Switzerland with Csaba Fenyvesi , Győző Kulcsár , Sándor Erdős and Pál Schmitt thus Olympic champion . In 1976 he just missed another medal win in Montreal both individually and with the team as fourth-placed. Four years later in Moscow he finished ninth in the individual and eighth with the team. In 1972 and 1976 Erdős became Hungarian individual champion, in 1970 and 1971 he won the national championships in team competition.

Web links

• István Osztrics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• István Osztrics at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)