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Károly Kárpáti (also Károly Kellner, born July 2, 1906 in Eger – September 23, 1996 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion of Jewish heritage.[1]

Károly Kárpáti
Born	(1906-07-02)July 2, 1906 Eger, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	September 23, 1996(1996-09-23) (aged 90) Budapest, Hungary

Olympic medal record
Men's Freestyle wrestling
	1936 Berlin	Lightweight
	1932 Los Angeles	Lightweight

Career

Károly Kárpáti was born on July 2, 1906 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He won a gold medal in 1936 in the Lightweight Freestyle class. The Jewish wrestler's victory in the Berlin 1936 Nazi Olympics provided special significance, because it came at the expense of Germany's vaunted titleholder, Wolfgang Ehrl. He was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.[2]

Kárpáti won a silver medal in the Lightweight Freestyle class at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1928 at the Amsterdam Games, he finished fourth in the same weight class.

Kárpáti was Hungary's first "freestyle" wrestler, winning his first Hungarian National Junior title in 1925. He went on to win ten Hungarian National Championships, as well as European Lightweight wrestling crowns in 1927, 1929, 1930, and 1935. He also won one silver and two bronze medals in European Championships competitions during the years in between.

Kárpáti was a Hungarian wrestling master trainer-coach and Olympics coach for many years. He authored six books on the sport of wrestling.

The Hungarian champion listed among his hobbies Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In 1982, International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch presented the bronze medal of the Olympic Order to Kárpáti for his lifelong work with youth in sports education.

The Holocaust

During the years of the Second World War and worsening of the antisemitic policy in Hungary, and the Holocaust, as an Olympic Champion Kárpáti was initially exempt from forced labor camp service or concentration camps to which Jews were sent. Ultimately, however, he was arrested and sent to work on a labor crew in Nadvirna, Poland and in Western Ukraine.[3] He there saw the killing of a fellow inmate, Olympic champion fencer Attila Petschauer, and later recalled: “The guards shouted: ‘You, Olympic fencing medal winner . . . let’s see how you can climb trees.’ It was midwinter and bitter cold, but they ordered him to undress, then climb a tree. The amused guards ordered him to crow like a rooster, and sprayed him with water. Frozen from the water, he died shortly after.”[4][5][6][7]

For the rest of the war he succeeded in hiding in the Banki woods and in Pest with family and friends.[8] Kárpáti died in 1996 at age 90.[9]

See also

• List of select Jewish wrestlers

Sources and external links

• on site of Hungarian wrestling with pictures of the sportsman
• on the site of the Jewish Sports hall of fame
• a site about Jewish sportsmen
• on a site of sports

Notes

На других языках

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- [en] Károly Kárpáti

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[fr] Károly Kárpáti

Károly Kárpáti, né Kellner le 2 juillet 1906 à Eger et mort le 23 septembre 1996[1] à Budapest, est un lutteur hongrois, champion olympique et champion du monde de sa discipline.

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[it] Károly Kárpáti

Károly Kárpáti (Eger, 2 luglio 1906 – Budapest, 23 settembre 1996) è stato un lottatore ungherese, specializzato nella lotta libera.

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[ru] Карпати, Карой

Карой Карпати (венг. .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}}Kárpáti Károly; настоящее имя Карой Кельнер[2] или Карой Кляйн[3]; 2 июля 1906 — 23 сентября 1996) — венгерский борец вольного и греко-римского стилей, чемпион и призёр Олимпийских игр, двукратный чемпион Европы, неоднократный призёр чемпионатов Европы[4], семикратный чемпион Венгрии (1931 по вольной борьбе, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932 по греко-римской борьбе, 1930, 1933 по греко-римской борьбе в команде)

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