János Garay (fencer)

János Garay (fencer) medal table
fencer
Hungary
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1928	Saber, crew
silver	1924	Saber, crew
bronze	1924	Saber, single

János Garay (born  February 23, 1889 in Budapest , † probably March 30, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a Hungarian fencer who was considered one of the world's best saber fencers in the 1920s .

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris with the Hungarian team, he won a silver medal in the team competition and the bronze medal in the individual competition in saber fencing. Four years later at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam he was Olympic champion with the team. He also won the individual title at the European Championships in saber fencing in 1925 and 1930, and in 1930 he was also European champion with the team.

After the occupation of his home country by Germany during the Second World War , János Garay was one of the roughly 437,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported to the Nazi concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust . He probably died in Mauthausen concentration camp in March 1945 .

János Garay was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Netanya in 1990. In his native Budapest, a school bears his name.

literature

• Garay, János. Entry in: Klaus-Jürgen Schönfelder: Olympic Lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-323-00106-0 , p. 86
• Janos Garay. In: Joseph Siegman: Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Hall of Fame. Third edition. Brassey, Washington DC 2000, ISBN 1-57-488284-8 , p. 73

Web links

• International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - Janos Garay (English, with picture)
• János Garay in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Remarks

1. ↑ There are different details about the exact date of his death. The date mentioned in this article is based on the Olympic Lexicon by Klaus-Jürgen Schönfelder (see literature).