Pál Szekeres

Pál Szekeres medal table

fencing
Hungary Hungary
Olympic games
bronze	Seoul 1988	Foil team
Paralympics
gold	Barcelona 1992	foil
gold	Atlanta 1996	foil
gold	Atlanta 1996	saber
bronze	Sydney 2000	foil
bronze	Athens 2004	saber
bronze	Beijing 2008	foil

Pál Szekeres (born September 22, 1964 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian foil fencer who switched to disabled sports after an accident . Afterwards he was active as a functionary .

Life

At the Olympic Games in 1988 Pál Szekeres was defeated in Seoul in the team competition in the semi-finals after an 8: 8 draw due to the poorer hit ratio against the Soviet Union . In the battle for third place, the Hungarian team prevailed 9: 5 against the GDR team , so that Szekeres received the bronze medal together with István Busa , Zsolt Érsek , István Szelei and Róbert Gátai . He finished the individual competition in 28th place. After an accident with a bus in 1991, he was now dependent on a wheelchair.

Szekeres then began wheelchair fencing and competed several times in Paralympic Games . In 1992 he won the gold medal in Barcelona with the foil, four years later he won gold in the foil and saber competition in Atlanta . This was followed by bronze medals with the foil in 2000 in Sydney and 2008 in Beijing and with the saber in 2004 in Athens .

From 1999 to 2005 Szekeres was Deputy State Secretary in the Ministry for Children, Youth and Sport. From 1996 to 2000 he was also a board member of the International Wheelchair Fencing Committee . This was followed by a term in the administration of the European Paralympic Committee from 2001 to 2005 . In 2005 he became President of the Hungarian Disabled Sports Federation and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Paralympic Committee of Hungary.

Szekeres graduated from the Hungarian Sports University in 1992 and graduated from the Hungarian College of Foreign Trade.

Web links

Commons : Pál Szekeres - collection of images, videos and audio files

Pál Szekeres in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Pál Szekeres at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Hungarian Paralympic athlete Pal Szekeres's goal is to win gold. In: beijing2008.cn. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, September 3, 2008, archived from the original September 6, 2008 ; accessed on January 17, 2019 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Szekeres, Pál
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest , Hungary

[paralympic-1] Hungarian Paralympic athlete Pal Szekeres's goal is to win gold. In: beijing2008.cn. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, September 3, 2008, archived from the original September 6, 2008 ; accessed on January 17, 2019 (English).