Robert Zimonyi

Robert Zimonyi, ca.1940

Robert "Bob" Zimonyi , actually Róbert Zimonyi , (born April 18, 1918 in Sárvár , † February 2, 2004 in Miami ) was a rower who was active as a helmsman until 1956 for Hungary and later for the United States .

At the first European championships after the Second World War in Lucerne in 1947, the Hungarians Antal Szendey and Béla Zsitnik with the helmsman Szaniszlo Latinovits won in two with a helmsman . In the following year at the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , the two Hungarians won the bronze medal with their new helmsman Róbert Zimonyi. With the Hungarian foursome with helmsman , Zimonyi was eliminated in the semifinals. Four years later, at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Zimonyi again steered two Hungarian boats. Both with the two with helmsman and with the eighth , he retired after semi-final defeats in the hope run for the final. In total, Zimonyi won 26 Hungarian championship titles between 1935 and 1956. Zimonyi was also intended for the Hungarian Olympic team for the 1956 Olympic Games, after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 , he did not come to his third Olympic start for Hungary.

Zimonyi emigrated to the United States and joined the Vesper Boat Club in Philadelphia . After his naturalization, he also drove US boats at international championships. At the 1964 Olympic Games , the Vesper Boat Club was the first club to place the US eighth and not a university. The US eight was an outsider against the favored Germany eight . The two boats met in the first run and the Germany eight won with a lead of 0.28 seconds. In the final, the US boat won by over five seconds. In addition to the Olympic victory with the US eighth, Zimonyi also won titles at the Pan American Games in 1963 and 1967 .

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

Robert Zimonyi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 835, note 523.

personal data
SURNAME	Zimonyi, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zimonyi, Róbert (Hungarian spelling); Zimonyi, Bob (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian, later American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sárvár
DATE OF DEATH	February 2, 2004
Place of death	Miami

[1] Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 835, note 523.