Jenő Hámori

Jenő Hámori medal table
Jenő Hámori (2014)
fencing
United States (after 1956) Hungary (until 1956)
Olympic games
gold	Melbourne 1956	Saber crew
World championships
gold	Rome 1955	Saber crew
Pan American Games
silver	Cali 1971	Saber crew

Jenő Arhand "Eugene" Hámori (born August 27, 1933 in Győr ) is a former Hungarian - American saber fencer and professor of biochemistry at Tulane University .

Life

Jenő Hámori was world champion with the team in Rome in 1955 . At the Olympic Games in 1956 in Melbourne he reached the unbeaten final round with the team, in which they again remained undefeated and took first place. Together with Aladár Gerevich , Attila Keresztes , Dániel Magay , Rudolf Kárpáti and Pál Kovács , Hámori became Olympic champion . After the games, he sat down with Attila Keresztes and Dániel Magay in the United States , where he was multiple national champions. In 1964 he was part of the US squad at the Olympic Games in Tokyo , where he reached seventh place with the team. In the individual competition he was eliminated in the second round. At the Pan American Games in Cali in 1971 , he secured the silver medal with the US team.

Hámori began studying in Budapest and later continued this at the University of Pennsylvania , where he earned a PhD in physical chemistry in 1964 . He then worked in research in Philadelphia . At Cornell University he then worked as a postdoc in the field of biophysical chemistry . In 1972 he moved to New Orleans to teach there as a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He also ran a fencing school with his wife in New Orleans.

Web links

Commons : Jenő Hámori  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jenő Hámori in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jenő Hámori at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)
• Jenő "Eugene" Hámori at Tulane University (English)