Olga Gyarmati

Olga Gyarmati [ ˈolgɒ ˈɟɒrmɒti ] (born October 5, 1924 in Debrecen , Hungary , † October 27, 2013 in Greenfield , Massachusetts ) was a Hungarian athlete . With a height of 1.66 m, she had a competition weight of 57 kg.

In 1943, Fanny Blankers-Koen set the world record in the long jump with 6.25 meters. When the long jump for women was part of the Olympic program for the first time at the Olympic Games in 1948 , Blankers-Koen did not take part in this discipline. Olga Gyarmati won the competition with 5,695 meters.

At the Olympic Games in 1952 , Gyarmati competed in the 200-meter run and in the sprint relay, but was eliminated in the preliminary run. In the long jump she came in 10th place with 5.67 meters. In 1956 , she was eleventh with 5.66 meters.

Olga Gyarmati was married to the writer Tamás Aczél and emigrated from Hungary in 1956. After 1990 she came back to Hungary. After the death of her husband in 1994, she moved back to London and later to Greenfield , Massachusetts .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

• Olga Gyarmati in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

supporting documents

1. ↑ tributes.com: Olga A. Aczel Obituary - Greenfield, Massachusetts , accessed December 21, 2013
2. ↑ Olga Gyarmati in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )