Lajos Nagy (water polo player)

Lajos Nagy (born March 11, 1936 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian and German water polo player .

Lajos Nagy started playing water polo in Hungary. After the Hungarian uprising , Nagy fled to Germany in 1956 and joined the club SC Rote Erde Hamm . From 1959 to 1973 he was seven times German water polo champion with this club .

In 1959 Nagy received German citizenship and played in 115 international matches in the national team until 1968 . At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 he finished sixth with the team from the Federal Republic of Germany. In seven games he scored ten goals. For the European Championship in 1962 and the Olympic Games in 1964 , the team from the GDR qualified as part of the all-German qualifications. At the European Championship in 1966, the German team with Nagy finished seventh. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , he scored nine goals in eight games, and the German team came in tenth.

Nagy studied medicine and was later also a tournament doctor for water polo.

literature

National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team. Frankfurt am Main 1968 p. 64

Web links

Short portraits of German water polo players
Lajos Nagy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ For Hungary he is said to have completed 60 international matches by 1956. This is what it says in the SportsReference Olympic database and what it says in the short portraits of the best German water polo players. This number of international matches appears to be very high compared to other Hungarian water polo players. The five-time Olympic medalist Dezső Gyarmati has completed 108 international matches (according to Gergely Csurka and Dezső Gyarmati: 1956 - Ahol mi győztünk , Budapest 2006 ISBN 963-7046-93-3 p. 123)

personal data
SURNAME	Nagy, Lajos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian and German water polo players
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest

[1] For Hungary he is said to have completed 60 international matches by 1956. This is what it says in the SportsReference Olympic database and what it says in the short portraits of the best German water polo players. This number of international matches appears to be very high compared to other Hungarian water polo players. The five-time Olympic medalist Dezső Gyarmati has completed 108 international matches (according to Gergely Csurka and Dezső Gyarmati: 1956 - Ahol mi győztünk , Budapest 2006 ISBN 963-7046-93-3 p. 123)