Pál Dunay
Pál Dunay medal table |
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gold | Warsaw 1934 | Sword |
bronze | Lausanne 1935 | Foil team |
Pál Dunay (born June 12, 1909 in Asbach , German Empire , † July 17, 1993 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian fencer .
successes
Pál Dunay won the epee individual world champion in Warsaw in 1934 and won bronze with the foil team in Lausanne the following year . He took part in the Olympic Games twice: in 1936 he was eliminated in Berlin with the epee in the quarter-finals of the individual competition, while with the epee team he couldn't get past the first round. At the 1948 Olympic Games in London , he again missed the semifinals in the epee singles. In the team competitions he reached fifth place with both the foil and the epee team.
His father Bertalan Dunay was also a fencer and took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm .
Web links
Commons : Pál Dunay - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Pál Dunay in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Pál Dunay at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dunay, Pál |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian fencer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Asbach , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1993 |
Place of death | Budapest , Hungary |