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János Garay (23 February 1889 – 21 April 1945) was a Hungarian fencer,[1] and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s.[2][3]

Jànos Garay
Born23 February 1889
Budapest, Hungary
Died21 April 1945(1945-04-21) (aged 56)
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Austria
NationalityHungarian
Olympic medal record
Men's Fencing
Representing  Hungary
1928 Amsterdam Team sabre
1924 Paris Team sabre
1924 Paris Individual sabre

Personal


Garay had two children: Jànos, a water polo player and Mària, a swimmer. He was also father-in-law to Valéria Gyenge.[4]


Fencing career



Hungarian Championship


Garay was the Hungarian national sabre champion in 1923.[5]


European and World Championships


In 1925[5] and 1930, Garay captured the Individual European Sabre Championship gold medal. He won the team sabre gold medal at the 1930 European Championships.


Olympics


He won silver medal for team saber at the 1924 Paris Olympics.[6]

He also won a gold medal in team saber at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.[6]


Concentration Camp and Death


He was one of 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary to a concentration camp after Germany occupied the country in 1944.[5]

Garay was killed shortly thereafter, in 1945, in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, shortly before the end of World War II.[7][8]


Hall of Fame


Garay, who was Jewish, was inducted in 1990 into The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel.[9][10][11]


See also



References


  1. www.mob.hu https://web.archive.org/web/20060620023648/http://www.mob.hu/cgi-bin/index.php?file=belso%2Fmemorian.html. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Uc_Hilal: Jews In Sports". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
  3. "János Garay Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
  4. "János Garay". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  5. János Garay Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
  6. "János Garay Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
  7. Schaffer, Kay; Smith, Sidonie (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5.
  8. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  9. Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900888.
  10. Continuing Persecution
  11. "Janos Garay". 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)



На других языках


- [en] János Garay (fencer)

[it] János Garay (schermidore)

János Garay (Budapest, 23 febbraio 1889 – Campo di concentramento di Mauthausen-Gusen, 3 maggio 1945) è stato uno schermidore ungherese, vincitore di una medaglia d'oro, una d'argento ed una di bronzo nella scherma ai Giochi olimpici.

[ru] Гараи, Янош (спортсмен)

Я́нош Га́раи[1][2][3] (.mw-parser-output .ts-comment-commentedText{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}@media(hover:none){.mw-parser-output .ts-comment-commentedText:not(.rt-commentedText){border-bottom:0;cursor:auto}}венг. Garay János; 23 февраля 1889, Будапешт, Австро-Венгрия, — 1945, Маутхаузен, Германия) — венгерский фехтовальщик, один из лучших саблистов мира в 20-е годы XX века.



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