Mihály Gellér

Mihály Gellér
nation	Hungary
birthday	August 5, 1947
place of birth	Elek ,  Hungary
size	170 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	Honvéd Budapest
National squad	since 1965
status	resigned
End of career	1972
Medal table
National medals 7 × ? × ? ×
Hungarian championships gold 1965 Team NH gold 1969 Team NH gold 1969 Single NH gold 1971 Team NH gold 1971 Single NH gold 1971 Single LH Hungarian championships gold 1969 singles

Mihály Gellér (born August 5, 1947 in Elek ) is a former Hungarian ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Gellér, who came to skiing early as the younger brother of László Gellér , won his first national title in 1965 with the team from the normal hill. The following winter he started at the Four Hills Tournament 1965/66 . However, he did not make a breakthrough yet. In the overall ranking he reached the 68th place.

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , where his brother also competed, Gellér jumped in both individual disciplines. He reached rank 58 on the normal hill and 56th on the large hill.

At the Hungarian Championships in 1969, Gellér won his first and only national title in Nordic combined in addition to the individual and team titles in ski jumping .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1970 in Štrbské Pleso Gellér jumped from the large hill to 90 and 95 meters, with which he reached 35th place. From the normal hill he was 43rd after jumps on 75 and 73 meters.

At the Four Hills Tournament 1970/71 he achieved the best result of his career with 53rd place in the overall ranking. In addition, he achieved his best individual result in Oberstdorf on the Schattenbergschanze with the 43rd place. However, after he was only 65 in the 1971/72 Four Hills Tournament in the following year , he ended his active ski jumping career.

After the end of his active career, Gellér worked in the catering trade. Within a few years he was one of the most famous gastronomy professionals in Budapest. Among other things, he worked at the Waldorf Astoria New York and later ran the Waldorf Astoria in Budapest .

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1965/66	68.	500.0
1967/68	58.	632.7
1968/69	61.	425.4
1969/70	61.	671.5
1970/71	53.	673.4
1971/72	65.	708.4

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
• László Nádori : Sports Lexicon I. (A – K) . Főszerk, Budapest 1985, ISBN 963-253-415-8 .
• Kiadó Babits : Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben . 1994, ISBN 963-7806-83-0 .

Web links

• Mihály Gellér in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Mihály Gellér in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Mihály Gellér on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 163
2. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 164