Károly Takács

Károly Takács 1961 in the international match Poland vs Hungary vs Yugoslavia

Károly Takács (born January 21, 1910 in Budapest , † January 5, 1976 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian marksman and two-time Olympic champion with the rapid-fire pistol .

life and career

Takács was already a Hungarian master with the pistol when the sergeant of the Hungarian army lost his right firing hand during a maneuver with a hand grenade in 1938. He retrained to the left hand and became world champion with the Hungarian team in 1939.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 he won with 580 rings and nine rings ahead of the Argentine world champion and world record holder Enrique Sáenz-Valiente . In 1952 in Helsinki Takács scored 579 rings, one ring more than his compatriot Szilárd Kun , making Takács the first shooter to repeat his Olympic victory with a rapid-fire pistol. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , he finished eighth with 575 rings. Two years later he won the bronze medal at the World Cup with the Hungarian team. With the large-caliber pistol, Takács received a second bronze medal at the 1958 World Cup.

After his career, Károly Takács was a junior coach at Honved Budapest.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Károly Takács in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World Shooting Championships