Klára Fried-Bánfalvi
Klára Fried-Bánfalvi (born May 9, 1931 in Budapest ; died July 15, 2009 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian canoeist .
From 1947 to 1963 Klára Fried-Bánfalvi won 36 Hungarian championship titles in canoeing. She started her career at Elektromos , in 1952 she started for Honved Budapest , from 1953 she was with Vörös Lobogó and from 1958 she started for Újpesti TE .
At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , female canoeists only had the 500-meter stretch in a single kayak on the program. Klára Bánfalvi was fourth in her heat just barely qualified for the final. In the final, the four canoeists from their preliminary run reached the first four places. Bánfalvi finished fourth, 0.9 seconds behind third-placed Austrian Fritzi Schwingl .
Klára Bánfalvi achieved her greatest success at the 1954 World Championships in Mâcon. In a two-person kayak over 500 meters she won together with Hilda Pinter in front of the second Hungarian boat with Valeria Lieszkowsky and Vilma Egresi . Klára Bánfalvi won another medal at the European Championships in Duisburg in 1959, when she finished third in the one behind Jelisaweta Kislowa and Antonina Seredina (both Soviet Union).
At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 she appeared as Klára Fried and started in both singles and twos. In the one, she qualified third in her preliminary run and second in her semi-final for the final. She started in two with Vilma Egresi and qualified directly for the final as third. On the day of the final, she first finished fifth in the single, three and a half seconds behind third-placed Polish Daniela Walkowiak . An hour and a half after the single final, the boat from the Soviet Union won in the two, ahead of the German boat. One and a half seconds behind the Germans, Fried and Egresi won bronze, 0.8 seconds ahead of the Poles.
Web links
- Klára Fried-Bánfalvi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- The world championship results on Sport-Complete
- The European Championship results on Sport-Complete
Footnotes
- ↑ Obituary on www.kajakkenusport.hu (Hungarian)
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 108
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 583f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fried-Bánfalvi, Klára |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bánfalvi, Klára (maiden name); Fried, Klára (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian canoeist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 2009 |
| Place of death | Vienna |